=== Slider Hero ===
Contributors: quantumcloud
Donate link: https://www.quantumcloud.com
Tags: slider, text carousel, banner slider, responsive header image slider, best slider plugin, slider plugin, hero image, hero banner, hero slider, hero image slider, HTML5 slider, animated background, animation slider, animated banner slider, background animation
Requires at least: 4.0
Tested up to: 4.9
Stable tag: 2.2.0
Requires PHP: 5.4.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.quantumcloud.com

Slider Hero is Unique, Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin with Background Animation Effects & Product Intro Builder. Create INCREDIBLE Adverts, Animation Sliders, Animated Header with Text Carousel.

== Description ==
Slider Hero is a futuristic, responsive, header Slider plugin and <strong>Dyanmic Intro Advert</strong> maker with animated background effects for hero banners and Landing pages. Create awesome animation slider and animated header with text carousel and Call to Action buttons. 

Slider Hero is not your typical responsive image slider plugin for wordpress. This slider plugin is one of a kind and based on a radical concept that uses UNIQUE CSS3 and JavaScript background animation effects not available anywhere else. We developed a Slider plugin that is <strong>super fun and simple</strong> to use and <strong>very quick</strong> to create elegant, unique animation sliders with animated background effects within a matter of minutes.

> Check out the [demo for PRO version of the Slider Hero](http://www.slider-hero.com/)

** Most Pro features are available with the free version

> Check the [Slider Hero Introduction](http://www.slider-hero.com/intro/)
> Dare to See [How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes?](http://www.slider-hero.com/matrix-intro/)

= Why use Slider Hero is Rather Than Other WordPress Slider Plugins? =
Traditional Image Sliders are bad for user conversions and they cause <strong>banner blindness</strong>. They are boring and do not engage users. Eye tracking studies conducted by Neilson Norman Group found that as soon as visitors perceived something to be an advertisement they turned their focus away from it. Image sliders divide your user’s attention. Images on sliders represent different products or offers in the span of a few seconds. Your website user has hardly read a single thing when whoosh...the image changes and they have to refocus their attention.

Slider Hero is different. This WordPress Slider plugin <strong>focuses on your core messages/<strong>, uses a background animation of your choice to keep the user <strong>interested and focused</strong>. The unique Call to Action button lead the users where they really need to be.

The other unique feature that Slider Hero provides is the Intro Advert builder. Introduce your products and services with a <strong>dramatic flair</strong>. Slider Hero typographic intro builder allows you to do something very unique. You can create stunning product introduction sliders like stunning Intros like “Apple – iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in 107 seconds” with chained animation and small snippets of texts combined with background audio of your choice.


= Slider Hero is Not Just a Slider = 
Slider Hero is also a cinematic intro or product advertisement Builder. Slider Hero Version 2.0 introduces Epic  Typographic Intro builder that you can use to create Cinematic and Dramatic adverts. For the 1st time, you can create cinematic Intros like  “Apple – iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in 107 seconds” or “Introducing Pixel, Phone by Google” advert easily and quickly with Slider Hero. Build cinematic Intro for your products or services that will not be soon forgotten. Slider Hero cinematic intros are perfect for Splash page, Coming soon page or Product Landing pages. 

> <strong>A New Hero is in the Town</strong>
> to Make Your Website Look Great
> Deliver Your Ideas
> to Imagine and to Create
> Something Fast, Futuristic, Simple Yet Unique

> Upgrade to [Slider Hero Professional](https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/slider-hero/)

= Slider Hero Benefits = 

Slider Hero is the best wordpress header slider plugin with text overlay and cinematic background effects. This WordPress Slider Plugin is best used as Intro Slider, Landing Page Slider or Home Page Slider. Slider Hero can be used as a fullscreen slider plugin besides the full width or custom width mode. Make a slideshow or full page Slider with Slider Hero on your wordpress coming soon, splash page, home page or landing page that will impress your site visitors with a memorable first impression.

Slider Hero can also be used to create HTML5 animated banners,<strong> HERO Banner</strong>, hero carousel with text and image, HERO Text Slider, text carousel, responsive header image slider, or simple image slider. But this responsive WordPress slider plugin's primary aims are to be:
1. the most <strong>admin friendly</strong> and 
2. visually impressive.

Marketers prefer Hero image or <strong>Hero sliders</strong> for homepage and landing pages because traditional image sliders do not convert customers as much as a Hero slider or animated bannere which typically occupies the most prime real estate of your website. Slider Hero provides a middle ground. It allows you to set a background Hero Image or select a GREAT javascript background animation effect and apply Title, Description and Buttons etc. as slides or carousel. <strong>Instant awesomeness</strong>. Slider Hero is the best wordpress slider plugin with text carousel overlay and background image with great, modern animation effects in the background.


There are quite a few great WordPress slider plugins available but they take a lot of efforts and expertise to produce awesome sliders you see in their slider demos. With Slider Hero animation slider, you can make amazing looking Homepage or <strong>Landing Page Hero Sliders</strong> or animated header with cinematic effects easily and quickly like no others.


= SLIDER HERO USE CASES =

Slider Hero provides all the <strong>quality of the premium and popular slider plugins</strong> without the headechs and complications. Select an animation effect like Particle Effect, Snow effect, Nasa or Space effect, Bubble effect or Nyan Cat effect, add a background image or choose from a collection of gradients, add title, description, and button (optional) and you are good to go. There is no dragging and dropping or awkward animation timings to get right – this animation slider plugin does everything for you. 

<strong>Finally a Hero to rescue your websites</strong> from boring image sliders that nobody scrolls through. Slider Hero is fast, simple, powerful and adds immense value to your WordPress website in 10 minutes or less. It is not your traditional, over-complicated layer slider either that takes hours to create a decent animated slider. Have you ever tried to create a <strong>professional looking slider or animated header</strong> with those timeline based, layer sliders? Their complex interface requires a professional to generate a decent looking slider. That is not the case with with SLider Hero. The no nonsense, one page admin interface of the Hero Slider will allow you to create brilliant looking WordPress header slider in matter of minutes.

Slider Hero can be used as <strong>HTML5 animated banner</strong>, animated slider, presentation slider or animated background anywhere on your pages with cinematic effects. 

Slider Hero can be used as simple text slider, image slider or text carousel with awesome JAVASCRIPT animation in the background.

Slider Hero can be used to create Memorable <strong>Animated Product Introduction</strong> or Service Introductions.

Slider Hero is perfect to use on your Landing page, Home page, Coming Soon page, 404 Error Page or Splash page and create a permanent, unique impression on your website users.


= Slider Hero Features =

<strong>Unique, Cinematic Intro Advert Slider Builder</strong>
* Create Unlimited Cinematic Intro Advert Easily which was never possible before
* Simple, Effective and Intuitive Interface
* Define text, Font color, Letter Spacing, Font Weight
* Select from 800+ Google Fonts [PRO FEATURE]
* Live Font Preview [PRO FEATURE]
* Flexible Intro Builder with Dynamic Slide delay, Text Animation Type (50+ effects)
* Upload Image as Slide Background or Select a Color
* Redirect to New Page After Intro Ends with Custom Delay [PRO FEATURE]
* Load Regular Slider with Call to Action Buttons After Intro Ends with Custom Delay [PRO FEATURE]
* 11 Background Animation to Choose from (more coming soon) [PRO FEATURE]

<strong>Modern Sliders and Text Carousels with Special Background Effects</strong>
* Create Unlimited Modern Sliders and Text Carousels with Stunning, Never Before Seen Background Animations
* Choose from <strong>8 (80+ in PRO)</strong> Wonderfully Refreshing and Unique Background Animation Effects
* Switch Between Effects Instantly [PRO FEATURE]
* Reposition Title, Description and Buttons Easily
* 800+ Google Fonts with Live Font Preview [PRO FEATURE]
* Choose from 173 Professionally Created Gradient or Upload an Image as Background

<strong>Call to Action Buttons</strong>
* Add One or Two [PRO FEATURE] Call to Action Buttons with Each Slide
* Square or Rounded Shape
* With or Without Borders
* Choose from 10 Custom Button Animations. [PRO FEATURE]
* Customize Button Fonts with Colors, Letter Spacing and More

<strong>Text Animation</strong>
* Standard Animate CSS Text In and Out Effects
* Letter FX Effects to Animate Your Letters [PRO FEATURE]
* Combine Animate CSS and Letter FX for Unique Text Effects of Your Own [PRO FEATURE]
* 20 Custom, Exotic Text Animation Effects for Title and Descriptions [PRO FEATURE]

<strong>Audio Support</strong>
* Add Background Music to Match the Tone of Your Intro Adverts and Sliders. [PRO FEATURE]
* Choose The Audio Controller Position [PRO FEATURE]
* Users Can Turn Sound On and Off [PRO FEATURE]
* Select if Audio Should Loop Indefinitely or Stop After Repeating a Few Times [PRO FEATURE]

<strong>Unique Slider Decoration</strong>
* Add Unique Decoration for Top and Bottom Parts of Your Sliders [PRO FEATURE]
* Choose from Slope, Rounded, Triangle, Arrow, Cloud or Half Circle Patterns [PRO FEATURE]
* Stand Out from the Crowd

<strong>General Options</strong>
* Hero, Carousel and Standard Slider Features
* Responsive Sliders
* Unlimited Sliders on a Page
* Drag &amp; Drop Slide Position
* Unpublish Slide/s
* Quick and Easy Building of Slider WITHOUT Any Layer or Timeline
* Copy and Duplicate Slider [PRO FEATURE]
* Auto Slide On or Off
* Repeat Slider On or Off [PRO FEATURE]
* Random Slide
* Background Animation Canvas Opacity [PRO FEATURE]
* Preview Your Sliders While Creating and Save Time

<strong>Slider Navigation and Controls</strong>
* Arrow Navigation with Custom  [PRO FEATURE] Colored Arrow Icons
* Special Floating Navigation Arrows [PRO FEATURE]
* Dot Navigation [PRO FEATURE]
* Pause and ResStart Slider [PRO FEATURE]

<strong>Preloader</strong>
* Turn Preloader on or Off [PRO FEATURE]
* Upload Your Own Preloader Image or Animated Gif [PRO FEATURE]

<strong>Import Export Slider</strong>
* Export Your Sliders and Import in Another Website Easily [PRO FEATURE]
* Export/Import Your Carefully Crafted Intro or Adverts [PRO FEATURE]

<strong>Full Width and Full Screen Slider</strong>
* Slider Hero Supports Full Width Layout Slider
* Stretch Your Slider Full Screen and Full Height

= Available Background Animation Effects in Slider Hero Pro =
Intro Effect, Aeronautics Effect, Antigravity Flow, Balls Gravity Effect, Bird Flying Effect, Blob Effect, Blade Effect, Blur Effect, Bubble, Campfire, Circle Intersection, Cloudy Sky Effect, Confetti Effect, Cosmic Web, Colorful Particle, Cursor And Paint,  Day Night Effect, Division Effect, Directional Force, Distance, Electric Clock, Firework, Fizzy Sparks, Float and Rain, Floating Leafs, Flowing Circle Effect, Flying Rocket Effect, Grid Effect, Helix Corruption, Helix Chaos, Helix Multiple, Glitch, Iconsahedron Effect, Intersecting Line Effect, Just Cloud, Link Particle, Liquid Landscape, Matrix Effect, Metaballs, Microcosm Effect, Moving Color, Wave, NASA, Neno, Hexagon, Noise Effect, Nyan Cat, Orbital Effect, Particle Effect, Particle Helix, Particle System, Hacker, Physics Bug, Racing Particles, Rain Effect, Rainy Season, Rays and Particles, Play or Work? Rain Of Line, Rising and falling cubes, Shape Animation, Space Elevator, Christmas Snow Effect, Squidematics, Stars Effect, Stellar Cloud, Subvisual, Tag Canvas, The Great Attractor, Thibaut, Tiny Galaxy Effect, Torus of Cubes, Water Effect, Wave Effect, Wave Animation Effect, Waaave Canvas, Walking Background, Star Trek Warp Speed, Water Swimming, Waving Cloth, Water Droplet, Wormhole Effect, Word Cloud, Valentine Effect, Ygekpg Effect

> Upgrade to [Slider Hero Professional](https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/slider-hero/)
> Slider Hero Pro [Documentation](https://www.quantumcloud.com/documentations/slider-hero/)

= Getting Started with SLIDER HERO =

Step 1: Select a hero slider effect
Step 2: Add title and text to your first slide. Unlimited slides supported
Step 3: Paste slider shortcode in your homepage or landing page or any page!

You are ready with an awesome, animated Hero Slider or Hero Banner!

= Slider Hero CUSTOMER SUPPORT =

All technical stuffs could be tough for your busy schedule. But you don’t need to go at it alone. QuantumCloud's quick and friendly customer support team is made up of top notch, friendly people - working hard to ensure you get the help you need, when you need it. We have built in Support area in the slider plugin. Just shoot us a mail with your questions or feedback and we will get right back to you.

= Leave a Rating for this Slider Plugin =

<strong>If you like our effort</strong> and would like to support us or if you just thought that this plugin was somewhat helpful, please leave a <strong>5 star rating</strong> and a short blurb on what you like the most about it. It means the world to us and motivates our developers to keep adding kool, new, premium features to this awesome slider plugin.

<strong>If you face any problem, or want more features in this Slider Plugin <strong>please leave a comment</strong>, instead of review. We take all customer feedback extremely seriously.</strong>

If you have an feature request or suggestions and want to be a part of the development effort to shape Slider Hero in the way you like, leave us a feedback from: 
https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/support/

== Installation ==

1. Download the plugin zip file. Extract and upload the folder in your wp-content/plugins folder.
2. From the wp-admin panel go to plugins and activate "Slider Hero"
3. Create a new page and paste the plugin Short Code. 
5. You are ready to wow your site visitors.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Why the background image does not show with some effects =
Some effects simply does not support background image because background image will look extremely odd with those selected effects. That is why your background image is not showing up with those few selected effects.

= Can you add more effects to choose from? =
A professional version of the Slider Hero is available with 80+ effects to choose from and loads of extra features. If you have any feature request or suggestions and want to be a part of the development effort to shape Slider Hero in the way you like, leave us a feedback from: 
https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/support/

= I have been using the free version, how do I upgrade to pro version? =
1st, you need to deactivate and delete the free version. Then install and activate the pro version and you are ready to go!

== Use ==

1. After activating the slider plugin, create a new page or post. In the body section copy paste the Hero Slider shortcode 
2. Save the page/post and check the page in front end.


== Screenshots ==
1. Snow effect
2. Nasa effect
3. Bubble effect
4. Particle effect
5. Nyan Cat effect
6. Gradient effect
7. Backend
8. Create slide
9. Settings


== Changelog ==
= 2.2.0 =
# Intro Builder New Button
# New Slider Menu selection issue fixed.
# Pro version effects added in New Slider page.

= 2.1.5 =
# Letter fx pro feature
# Content section align issue fixed.

= 2.1.0 =
# Some Alignments fixed.
# Button Cancel issue fixed.
# Preview size bigger
# Introducing Slider Hero Pro

= 2.0.0 =
# Introducing dynamic, cinematic Intro Builder

= 1.9.1 =
# Minor text update

= 1.9.0 =
# Fixed some JS conflicts with 4.9

= 1.8.0 =
# Added feature - Random slide

= 1.7.5 =
# Fixed a bug with background image
# Added slide count

= 1.7.0 =
# Added background image transition effect

= 1.6.5 =
# Uploaded image show very small - Fixed.
# Slide Buttons break down when New slide is added - Fixed.
# Set default pause time to 13000 - Fixed.
# Fix the Button create window's button alignments - Fixed.
# Fix language for title line height - Fixed.
# Fix Line Height Matching in Px - Fixed.

= 1.6.0 =
Redesigned backend interface

= 1.5.5 =
# Fixed a conflict with themes that use option tree

= 1.5.0 =
# Fixed a bug about preview for admin
# Fixed bug for slide delete
# Small misc. improvements

= 1.4.5 =
# Removed pause before 1st slide
# Fixed text color for description

= 1.4.0 =
# Major Update
# Image upload option add to slide.
# Left & Right margin offset.
# Added custom css option in backend.
# Added Font height for title & description.
# shortcode logo changed.
# Language changed.
# Support page updated.
# Support Email problem fixed.

= 1.2.0 =
# Add shortcode column in slider list.
# Add slider type in slider details area.
# Change shortcode button to logo icon
# Added Text for subtitle
# Torus conflicting issue fixed.
# Change some languages.

= 1.1.0 =
* Slider Preview Option Added.
* Updated Slider Menu.
* New Slider Effect Added (Torus of Cubes).

= 1.0.0 =
* More Slider Button features added - Font size, Font Weight, Font Color, Hover Color, Letter Spacing.
* Slider auto fit on resize window.
* Misc. Adjustments and bug fixes

= 0.9.5 =
* Misc. Adjustments and bug fixes

= 0.9.1 =
* Login cookie Bug fix

= 0.9.0 =
* Inception

 == Upgrade Notice ==
= 1.2.0 =
# Add shortcode column in slider list.
# Add slider type in slider details area.
# Change shortcode button to logo icon
# Added Text for subtitle
# Torus conflicting issue fixed.
# Change some languages.