izzyg

Great, thanks!
My only other query is how one would get the slider to automatically display the first few words of a post as the description, rather than having to rely on a manually generated excerpt?

Isaac

Just to let everyone know, EasyRotator does the job pretty well and is fantastically easy to use.

Tried out cyclone – it didn’t seem a particularly great base to build on, because it doesn’t seem to have any feature for showing recent posts. Might be missing something?

Yet to find a free plugin which works out of the box, or, in fact, even offers to display the featured image.

Ah that looks irritatingly ideal – I’m keen to avoid spending money if possible. Is there a reason why a free slider wouldn’t do this?

Thanks! That’s really helpful. I’m trying out a lot of sliders at the moment, but can’t find any which allow the featured image to be displayed across the entire slider, with the title/extract layed on top. Does anyone know of a slider which would do that?

Thanks!