Awesome 25+ Top jQuery Slideshow and Image Gallery Plugins 2013

The use of a jQuery Slideshow and Image Gallery Plugins on your blog is one of the best ways of sharing your pictures with your family, friends, and followers. A JavaScript gallery displays images posted on your blog, and when your readers click on any of them, a full-size carousel will be launched, making it possible for the visitor to scroll through the whole gallery, with an image at a time. The slideshow makes it possible for images to be automatically moved from one to with ease, letting your visitors appreciate the beauty of your works.

To many people, creating a JavaScript gallery is one of the most difficult things in web designing. However, thanks to many of the free jQuery slideshow plugins available today, everything is easy. A plugin helps you to create an attractive slideshow having fluid and responsive layouts.

Some of the Best jQuery Slideshow Plugins That Can Meet Your Needs

After doing some research and reading the reviews of thousands of website owners and designers, we have come up with a list of the best jQuery plugins that can be used to create an attractive image gallery for a company website or personal blog. Some are paid, while there are still some free ones.

GalleryJack Rebooted

This plugin helps you to create a fixed-size or fullscreen gallery, making it to be one of the most popular today. It also has optional thumbnails with optional tool-tips; deep-linking for enhanced browsing; and image descriptions.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

JQuery Ken Burns Fullscreen Slideshow

This plugin has deeplinking with indexable images (jquery address), while there is a fixed-size or responsive layout for you to entertain your visitors. There are also left, right, top and bottom play positions.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Fullscreen Grid Gallery

This plugin is notable for its gallery thumbnail which you can make to have list and grid views.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

Boom Gallery jQuery Plugin

This slideshow created with this plugin can be viewed in any browser. In addition to being easy to install, you can always enjoy the setup effects with JSON
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

ajSlideshow jQuery Slideshow Plugin

This is very popular because it does not conflict with any of the other plugins installed by you.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

Wall/Grid Gallery (jQuery Plugin)

With this, the gallery can be edited from XML/JSON or HTML file(s), while it is also possible to display an unlimited amount of images in the gallery.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Awesome Nishtyak Gallery

Nishtyak comes with an adjustable number of strings and also supports auto-scroll.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Tiles Gallery

One basic feature of this plugin is that it shows all images at a glance, with animated captions. Therefore, it is a very good choice.
DEMO/ DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

JBMarket Image Gallery

This easily displays thumb images, description text for the thumb images, big images for the lightbox and description text for the lightbox.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Resizable FullScreen Gallery Plugin

If you want to easily create a JavaScript gallery, this is a good choice, and it allows you to resize the screen easily.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Banner Rotator Slideshow

This is one of the best jQuery plugins through which you can set the text description panel at different location and size. You can as well embed images and links inside the HTML text description box.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Simple Product Gallery

This plugin has an amazing navigation and image pre-loading, in addition to features like mouse-wheel navigation and the ability to resize the images.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Image Gallery Slideshow with MousePan

With this plugin, you will enjoy deeplinking with jquery address, and support for lots of image categories
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

jQuery Multimedia Gallery Slideshow with Music

You will have horizontal or vertical orientation for each of your layouts, while vertical/horizontal margins can also be allowed between images
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

Diamond Slider – Ken Burns Image Slideshow

You can easily create a good JavaScript slideshow because the plugin can create multiple sliders on a page, while different settings, content, skin, size look and feel can be set for each one.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

JQuery Stack Banner Slideshow

This creates a slideshow with captions. It also has 4 types of movements, which are horizontalRight, horizontalLeft, verticalRound and verticalAbove.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

Classic Accordion

Classic Accordion helps you to add captions with HTML text or simple text, in addition to making each panel to have a link.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

Factory Galleries jQuery Plugin

Your jQuery image gallery will have crossbrowser compatibility with this plugin, while multiple instances can also work in a single HTML page.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

Crystal Gallery

With this plugin, you can create a professional-looking jQuery image gallery with blur effect. It also supports Flickr feed for managing the gallery images with your Flickr account.
DEMO / DOWNLOAD – Premium Plugin by Code Canyon

Free jQuery Slideshow Plugins
There are also some free plugins that can be used to create your jQuery image gallery. Some of them will be briefly described below.

Minimalistic Slideshow Gallery with jQuery

With this, you can create a beautiful and simple slideshow gallery without any problem.
MORE INFO – Free Plugin by Tympanus

Mosaic

Mosaic allows you to easily create a jQuery & CSS mosaic gallery.
MORE INFO – Free Plugin by Tutorialzine

Advanced jQuery Background Plugin

This is one of the best plugins that can let you create a good image slideshow that every visitor will love.
MORE INFO – Free Plugin by Marcofolio

Image Gallery Plugin

This plugin lets you create a gallery with fancy transitions effects, and being free means that you have nothing to lose by downloading it.
MORE INFO – Free Plugin by Workshop