Sliders, sliders, sliders, ...

DannyLee said
Whats really shocking to me is that most of these are just freebies that people are selling! The other day there was a nice tutorial for a responsive parallax slider on codrops, within days work derived from the tut is here for sale!

If the work is modified and/or build upon in some way, and falls within the product license, I guess commercial resale is allowed.

I doubt somebody is selling original unmodified tutorial.

SportTipsWorld said
Some of the reviewers need to check up on stuff huh.

An Italian food reviewer should keep up with every new pizza recipe in the world.

I’m probably not going to be popular when I say this, but the 4th, 5th and 6th most selling WordPress plugins are sliders – so that might be the reason why people are still doing these.

If you don’t like them don’t buy them. I must admit that we have purchases several of them and they have saved us tons of time when creating sites for customers. And I would much rather support my fellow authors on Codecanyon, where I usually get great support, instead of going for a free plugin.

Of course its really refreshing to see when someone comes with a new plugin idea that has not been seen before, however it is normal that people (authors) try to get their fair share of the pie.

Wouldn’t you?

jwmcpeak said

SportTipsWorld said
Some of the reviewers need to check up on stuff huh.

An Italian food reviewer should keep up with every new pizza recipe in the world.

Good point.

RightHere said
I’m probably not going to be popular when I say this, but the 4th, 5th and 6th most selling WordPress plugins are sliders – so that might be the reason why people are still doing these.

If you don’t like them don’t buy them. I must admit that we have purchases several of them and they have saved us tons of time when creating sites for customers. And I would much rather support my fellow authors on Codecanyon, where I usually get great support, instead of going for a free plugin.

Of course its really refreshing to see when someone comes with a new plugin idea that has not been seen before, however it is normal that people (authors) try to get their fair share of the pie.

Wouldn’t you?

Very well said, but one of the issues I see is that in any other category, one there are 4-5 items of very similar nature, no further items are accepted. Sliders is the only category where dozens of the same item are permitted.

It’s definitely a smart move for developers-that’s part of why I built mine a long time ago-but it should stop somewhere.

Before I comment any further: for every slider that is accepted, there are eight to ten that are rejected.

mordauk said
Very well said, but one of the issues I see is that in any other category, one there are 4-5 items of very similar nature, no further items are accepted. Sliders is the only category where dozens of the same item are permitted.

It depends on the category. Sliders are still evolving—gaining more features as time goes on. While the evolutionary process isn’t as fast as I would prefer, there is forward movement—which is better than nothing. Compare that with other categories like tooltips, notifications, and lightboxes. These categories are largely stagnant. New entries haven’t done anything but repeat the same feature-set without adding new and meaningful functionality. It makes sense to grow categories that demonstrate feature growth; whereas, it makes sense and halt other categories that stagnate.

So yeah, we have a ton of sliders, but customers have a wide selection to choose from based upon the features they want and need. We’ve pretty much reached the end of the image+caption+floating call out text slider that has been popular for the past six to twelve months. We’ll stop accepting those until someone meaningfully expands the feature-set.

I’m in my brand new “I love sliders” phase and am in the process of buying multiple licenses for the top ones here for all my sites. Why? Not because I like sliders, but mostly because they look cool and that’s what all the major websites from big companies are using. So sliders are in, and will be for years. Let the coding commence!

What big companies use sliders?

SportTipsWorld said
What big companies use sliders?

Sometimes we need to browse the internet. Not just this forum or marketplaces

VF said

SportTipsWorld said
What big companies use sliders?

Sometimes we need to browse the internet. Not just this forum or marketplaces