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Nivo Slider is a premium WordPress content slider Plugin. A new version of this plugin is released and it is a huge update which comes with new themes, new options,  a new nivo_slider() template tag & much  more. It is recommended that you must upgrade to latest version as soon as possible. But before upgrading Nivo Slider to latest version make sure you backup website and if something is messed-up then you can easily back it up in no time.

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Nivo Slider v1.8 comes with bunch of new options, features and some fixes. Below you can find the changelog of this plugin.

Nivo Slider V1.8 WordPress Plugin

New Features Added

• Added 3 new themes
• Set alt text of images on Manual sliders (auto set on other types of slider)
• Added “Custom Post Type” sliders
• Added nivo_slider() template tag
• Upload custom slider themes to the “wp-content/uploads/nivo-themes” folder (to avoid being overwritten on update)
• Set “nivo_image_link” custom post meta to override the image link for non-Manual sliders

Changes Made

• Updated Nivo Slider jQuery plugin to v3.1
• Removed “Hide Direction Navigation on Hover” option
• If theme doesn’t support thumbnails settings will be hidden
• If invalid slider ID/slug no message will be shown

Bug Fixed

• General optimisation and bug fixing

So, for what you are waiting for, update Nivo Slider to latest version as soon as possible and if you do not have your copy of Nivo Slider, then you can get one from here:

Nivo Slider V1.8 WordPress Content Slider Plugin

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