A plain JavaScript slideshow of about 14 KB: six transitions including Ken Burns, multilingual captions, per-slide links, a navigation strip and right-to-left language support.
showplus is a slideshow by Levente Hunyadi for presenting a set of images with smooth transitions. It fits a home page, a header area or a portfolio section. The script uses no Flash, MooTools or jQuery; only one CSS and one JavaScript file are added to the page, about 14 KB in total.
Features
- Responsive layout that scales to any size.
- Six transition animations: fade, zoom, pan, Ken Burns, push and wipe.
- Image captions from a labels file, with per-language variants and a default caption.
- A link from each slide to any address.
- Ordering by file name, modification time, random shuffle on every view, or a custom order.
- A horizontal or vertical navigation bar.
- Key styles are set in the backend; right-to-left languages are supported.
- Meaningful output even with JavaScript disabled.
Compatibility
Joomla 4, 5 and 6. Current version 2.0, last updated in JED on 16 December 2025.
