Hi everyone!

 

Basically, I made a mock-up for a site in Photoshop, and now I'm looking to make that mock-up a WP-theme. A part of this mock up is the featured content slider, that I have made to look like this:

 

 

I realized that I best use a plugin for this, basically it needs to show not specifically featured posts but the LATEST posts (because there are not going to be that many postings)

 

I did a quick search, and I feel kinda overwhelmed by all the different plugins that exist. I need a plugin that features this layout (so on the left an image with an overlaying text and on the right a number of titles from the articles) and preferably the ability to change the look of the slider easily (especially the backgrounds of the titles)

 

Can anyone recommend me one?

I would suggest trying this one: http://jqueryglobe.com/article/feature-list

 

as I used it here: http://www.sulibdems.com/ and seem to remember it being fairly easy to customise. You will however need to know how to get the latest posts and images but a quick google search will find that for you

Hi,

 

Thanks a lot for your response! However, I'm aware of the fact that many WordPress specific plugins already exist, so I'm preferring to work with that, considering I'm just starting out on this. Maybe in the future though, I'll use the one in the link you gave, as it is always good to not rely too much on plug-ins. Though, for this time I'm really looking for a simple solution.