You are encouraged to view the source of these demos to understand the power and flexibility the Cycle2 brings to the table.

Getting Started
How to get started with simple, basic slideshows.
Adding Slides
How to add slides to a running slideshow.
Auto Height
How to leverage Cycle2's auto-height support.
Bookmarkable Slides
How to leverage Cycle2's data-cycle-hash attribute to have bookmarkable slides.
Captions
How to add captions to your slideshow. From simple to advanced.
Carousel Pager
Two synchronized slideshows using a carousel pager and prev/next anchors.
Centered Slides
How to center slides horizontally and vertically (using Cycle2's center plugin).
Commands
How to issue commands to a running slideshow and how to bind arbitary elements to issue those commands (pause, resume, stop, goto, etc).
Continuous
How to have a continuously moving slideshow.
Image Loader
How to use Cycle2's image loading facilities in order to delay the start of a slideshow until some or all images have been loaded.
Manual Fx
How to override the default transition effect when the transition is initiated through user interaction (as apposed to a timer).
Nested Slideshows
How to have a slideshow of slideshows (inception!)
Non-Image Slides
How to use elements other than images as slideshow slides. This includes how to wrap images in anchors so that they can be links and how to build slides from several elements.
Overlays
How to add information overlays to your slideshow.
Pagers
How to add pagers to your slideshow. From simple to advanced.
Pause-On-Hover
How to pause a slideshow when the mouse moves over it and how to identify other elements to trigger this behavior.
Prev/Next Controls
How to use prev/next controls to advance a slideshow forward and back.
Progress Bar
How to listen to cycle events in order to display a slideshow progressbar.
Progressive Image Loading
How to use Cycle2's progressive image loading facilities to minimize bandwidth and load images as needed.
Swipe Gesture
How to use a swipe gesture to trigger slide changes on touch devices.
Synchronized Slideshows
How to synchronized multiple slideshows to transition sequentially.
Template Customization
How to customize Cycle2's template syntax.
Transition: Carousel
Examples of the Carousel transition effect.
Transition: Flip
Examples of the CSS3 Flip transition effects.
Transition: Shuffle
Examples of the Shuffle transition effect.
Transition: Tile
Examples of the Tile transition effects.
YouTube
An example of displaying YouTube videos in slideshow.