WOW Slider versions

v9.0 [Dec 23, 2019]
- New templates: Angular, Epsilon, Stream, Utter, Dodgy.
- New effects: Shift, Louvers, Cube Over, TV.
- Added new hi-res slide sizes: 4K, FullHD, 1600x900 etc.
- Improved image quality.
- Support for retina screens.
- GUI translation for Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish languages.
- Minor fixes.

v8.8 [Aug 3, 2017]
- New templates: Angular, Epsilon, Stream, Utter.
- New effect: Shift.
- Support for retina screens.
- Fixed bugs with adding slides from YouTube and Flickr.
- Minor fixes.

v8.6 [Sep 22, 2015]
Sep 23, 2015, WOWSlider v8.6:
- New templates: Angular, Epsilon.
- New effect: Turn.
- GUI translation for Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish languages.
- Wordpress plugin is updated for latest version.
- Bug fixes.

v8.2 [May 15, 2015]
New template: Angular
New effect: Turn
Now you can add targets "_parent" and "_top" to your links
Added support for Joomla 3.x versions
Fixed import from Youtube

v7.8 [Mar 24, 2015]
Mar 25, 2015 WOWSlider v7.8
* New templates: Boundary, Dodgy
* New fonts: Lora, Indie Flower
* Updated Cube Over effect
* PNG images with "Image fill color" bug fixed

v5.6 [Jul 22, 2014]
June 18, 2014 WOW Slider v5.5
* New skins: Megalopolis, Puzzle and Contour
* Fixed problems with adding images from Flickr
* Bug fixes

v5.4 [Apr 23, 2014]
April 23, 2014 WOW Slider v5.4
* New skins: Gentle, Easy and Tick
* Support for music on mobile devices. Just slide image to start the playing. Please see our demo with music
* Bug fixes

v5.0 [Feb 12, 2014]
New templates: Emerald, Glass and Turquoise. Responsive feature improved: descriptions, navigation arrows and filmstrips adapt to the viewing environment.

v4.8 [Oct 31, 2013]
- templates: Sky, Salient and Dot
- transition effect: Seven
- book transition effect is compatible with Internet Explorer 10 now
- support for PNG image files with preserving transparency.
- wordpress slider plugin update: support for RTL mode and multi-sites mode; improved compatibility with the transition effects.
- bug fixes

v4.7 [Sep 22, 2013]
New templates: Pure, Box and Book
New transition effect: Book
Bug fixes

v4.3 [Aug 9, 2013]
* New template: Sunny
* Updated transition effect: Page

v3.3 [Mar 19, 2013]
New templates: Studio and Push
Background music for slideshow
Updated Wordpress plugin
Improved support for old IE (IE6,7,8)
Minor GUI changes
Bug fixes

v2.8 [Dec 20, 2012]
* New templates: Silence, Dominion, Calm
* Updated Wordpress plugin
* Compatibility of "Filmstrip" with iOS and Android was improved
* Minor fixes

v2.6 [Oct 18, 2012]
- New templates: Prime Time, Dark Matter, Catalyst, Catalyst Digital
- "Random order" option to play slides randomly
- "Filmstrip" option for thumbnails with touch swipe support
- "Thumbnail size" option
- "Change Effect" buttons with every online demo - Test available effects
- Chinese translation for site
- Bug fixes.

v2.1 [Mar 28, 2012]
- Fully accessible as a pure CSS slider, if the Javascript is turned off
- Improved import to Wordpress
- New Aqua template
- New Flip effect
- "Delay between slides" and "Effect duration" maximum increased to 60 sec
- "Use relative paths to image in project" option
- "On-demand image loading" option - good for slow servers or large number of images (see 100 slides demo)
- Option to set page color
- Parameter to start from specified image or random image:
add 'startSlide' parameter in engine1/script.js startSlide:Math.round(Math.random()*99999)
- Parameter to run slideshow in specified or random order: add 'onBeforeStep' parameter in engine1/script.js
onBeforeStep: function(curIdx,count){ return (curIdx 1 Math.floor((count-1)*Math.random())) }
- Image settings panel is always visible
- Fixed bug with "Preserve aspect ratio" on Mac
- Updated translations: Bulgarian, Finnish, Gujarati, Indonesian, Montenegrin, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Ukraine
- Bug fixes

v1.7 [Jun 20, 2011]
The new version has :*New transition effects - Stack, Stack vertical and Basic linear;
* New templates - Digit and Mac;
*Now you can stop slider after one loop;
*Support for swipe touch events for iPhone / iPad / Android
* Bug fixes
* New transition effect - Ken Burns;
* Now you can control position of navigation bullets one the page
* Improvements in 'Insert to Page' wizard: now you can specify unique ID for the each slider and add several sliders to one page
* Now you can pause slider on mouseover

v1.3 [Feb 15, 2011]
* Export Joomla! module for you Joomla! website.
* Picassa support. Add Picassa album or a single photo to your slider gallery.
* Description support for Photobucket and Flickr.
* New transition effects - Slices, Fly and Blast.
* New templates - Flux, Pinboard and Mellow.