If you’re planning to build a showcase website with WordPress you’d probably insert at least in the home page some images with a sliding effect.
By using jQuery make them slide is pretty easy, but I had some trouble to choose a way to manage the images in the cms.
My goal was to use the fewest number of plugins possible, because i want something usable on most of website I have to develop.
WordPress put at our disposal a gallery tool which is reachable by clicking on the “Add Media” button on top of the body article.
By using this we have a big pro: WordPress takes care of re-sizing and cropping the images.
The con is that by default this system will show only a list of thumbnails linking to the fullsized image.