{"id":6169,"date":"2013-01-28T05:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T11:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2013-06-04T00:30:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T06:30:38","slug":"slidedeck-2-litea-beatiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/28\/slidedeck-2-litea-beatiful\/","title":{"rendered":"SlideDeck 2 Lite&ndash;A beatiful Content Slider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since installing Studiopress\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/studiopress-genesis-framework\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis Framework<\/a> on Evolutionary Designs, I have been looking for the perfect theme to fit the site. Currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Evolutionary Designs<\/a> is using a variation of the CopyBlogger theme until I can decided on the right them for the site. The one thing that I have always wanted was to to have an image\/feature article slider. But with most sliders, I wasn\u2019t happy with design or the way it looked on the site. After trying out a few plugins, I decided that I was going to have code my own slider. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/slidedeck2-evolutionary-designs.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" alt=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/slidedeck2-evolutionary-designs_thumb.png?resize=600%2C257\" width=\"600\" height=\"257\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slide Deck 2 was one of my favorite premium sliders so I decided to try out <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/slidedeck2\" target=\"_blank\">SlideDeck 2 Lite<\/a> (full but limited version) before purchasing the developer\u2019s version.<\/p>\n<h2>SlideDeck 2 Lite Review<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/banner-772x2501.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" alt=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/banner-772x2501_thumb.jpg?resize=600%2C194\" width=\"600\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a few months ago released a free version of <a title=\"SlideDeck 2 Premium\" href=\"http:\/\/slidedeck.ojrq.net\/c\/48163\/48852\/1130\" target=\"_blank\">SlideDeck 2<\/a>. Although not many have heard\u00a0 much about this great plugin, there has been over over 50,000 downloads and received a 4.3 out of 5 stars from WordPress users.<\/p>\n<h3>SlideDeck 2 Lite Limitations<\/h3>\n<p>As I mentioned, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/slidedeck2\" target=\"_blank\">SlideDeck 2 Lite<\/a> is limited. Here is what you do get. If you want more, then you have to buy the full version of SlideDeck 2.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flickr<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<li>Pinterest<\/li>\n<li>WordPress Posts<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>max of 5 slides<\/li>\n<li>Only two of the Lenses (Toolkit &amp; O-Town)<\/li>\n<li>SlideDeck 2 Lite is branded with a little \u201cSD\u201d logo on slider.<\/li>\n<li>Plugin isn\u2019t supported. It will only be supported for major bug fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>My Thoughts on SlideDeck 2 Lite<\/h3>\n<p>I was originally introduced to SlideDeck 2 when I was looking for the perfect content slider. After looking at a few plugins, I was discouraged and went looking for the content slider code. So I could build the slider from the front end and not have to do both the back end coding and then work on a design that fit Evolutionary Designs. Sometime during my code search I stumbled on to SlideDeck 2 and was instantly in love with the design and the features available. But I wasn\u2019t yet sold on the slider. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/screenshot-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" alt=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/screenshot-1_thumb.jpg?resize=600%2C440\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the developer\u2019s version had everything I needed, I wasn&#8217;t sold on the price. Even though you can run a demo on their site, I wanted to get my hands on a full version or trial version on my test site or even my live site to see how well it worked, it loaded, and what I could do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Then When the Lite version came out, I decided to give it try. What I found was it was simple to install and easy to setup new slides either by using your own WordPress content or from a limited selection of social media sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/screenshot-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" alt=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/screenshot-2_thumb.jpg?resize=600%2C448\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After playing with the settings and adjusting things, I came up with an image slider that I liked. At this point, I was happy. Then came the load tests.\u00a0 If you been on site since adding the slider, then you know, there has been some loading issues.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to tweak the settings, adjust the caching plugin on Evolutionary Designs, and did some image optimization. But I had no luck. The slider works great on individual pages and posts but on the main page its has an ugly load time. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/screenshot-3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" alt=\"SlideDeck 2 Lite\u2013A beatiful Content Slider\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/screenshot-3_thumb.jpg?resize=600%2C483\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I found was the code needed to load after the rest of page loaded and this would solve the ugly load issues. So I tried a few tricks but with no luck, it still loads slowly.<\/p>\n<h3>Final Thoughts<\/h3>\n<p>So after giving this plugin some thought, I have decided to remove it. I may add this plugin to another site that the plugin might load faster on. But as for Evolutionary Designs, this plugin isn\u2019t the one.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great plugin, but as mentioned before, its not going to work for Evolutionary Designs. But this would be a great for sites that do not have that many images.<\/p>\n<p>But if I could add any feature to this great plugin, it would be the option to make the code load last. At some point, I plan on doing a review of the premium version of <a title=\"SlideDeck 2 Premium\" href=\"http:\/\/slidedeck.ojrq.net\/c\/48163\/48852\/1130\" target=\"_blank\">SlideDeck 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since installing Studiopress\u2019 Genesis Framework on Evolutionary Designs, I have been looking for the perfect theme to fit the site. 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