If you want to create an engaging and dynamic view of any building or landscape, you should know that many WordPress plugins help with this interactive functionality of your site.
WordPress 360-degree panorama plugins allow you to show a rotating view of the property you sell. Also, it will enable your customer to navigate through the image with a full 360° spin view and enjoy an immersive online experience.
These plugins are easy to implement in your WP built site. With just a shortcode you can add the 360-degree view on your pages, posts, widgets.
The list below gathers some of the best of WordPress panorama view plugins.
360° Panoramic Image Viewer
360° Flat Panoramic Viewer brings life to static panorama photography and creates an engaging viewing experience in WordPress. This plugin allows a 360° right and left rotation and provides extra performance as it facilitates hot spots by linking a map element to the image. Furthermore, there is no any additional configuration required for this functionality.
This plugin doesn’t need any coding expertise as it comes with a shortcode generator in the TinyMCE editor toolbar. You can add the shortcode on any page, post, widget, have it placed multiple times on a specific page without any problem.
When purchasing the plugin, you also have access to technical support for the more advanced features. The package also includes full documentation with useful step by step instructions to set it up and get it running on your website.
If you are looking for a plugin that performs well on mobiles and tablets, 360° Panoramic Viewer is fully optimized for use on all portable devices. It can also integrate a lightbox solution that adds realistic zoom functionality if you want your panorama to be zoomed in.
List of features:
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- Uses only flat panoramic images
- Mobile/touchpad control
- Shortcode easy installation
- Ability to add hotspots via a map tag
- Responsive design: takes the width of the container
- Auto-scroll option
- Works well with a lightbox plugin
- Supports multi-site configuration
- Technical support and documentation
2. 360 VR Gallery WP
The 360 VR Gallery plugin displays 360 degrees panoramic view directly in the browser. It is optimized to be mobile responsive and works well on all devices and browsers. They tested the script on all Android and iOS devices.
The significant advantage is that you can use a single 360×180 panoramic photo for making a rotating view. Same for the 360° Flat Panoramic Viewer you don’t need programming expertise for creating the panorama. The plugin can be easily installed on your WordPress website and paste the shortcode directly into any post or page.
List of features:
- Single 360×180 panoramic image
- Easy installed and managed with shortcode
- Creates multiple panoramas with responsive slide
- Full control over it with touchpad and mouse
- Auto-scroll option
3. Panorama 360 Addon for WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer)
This fully customizable WordPress plugin helps you create engaging scenes by providing a predefined template. In just one step the plugin creates a simple 360-180 degree view with a single image.
The plugin creates a responsive 360-degree panorama that works on touch screens, is easy to install and use in just one step. You can add it to any page of your WordPress site. There is free technical support on http://themeofwp.com/support/, and you can find documentation at http://themeofwp.com/plugins/vc-panorama3d/doc/
The plugin works well with Photo Sphere Viewer allowing top performances on the latest browsers and supports cubic panoramas.
A downside would be that this plugin doesn’t work on old tablets and mobile phones. To sure check compatibility: https://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl
List of features
- Free support and documentation
- Predefined Visual Composer template
- Compatible with any Visual Composer Theme
- Highly customizable & fully responsive
- One click image usage
- Works on mobile devices and supports Gyroscope on any device
- Supported: IE9+, Firefox (latest), Chrome, Safari, Android, iOS (iPhone, iPad)
- Works with Photo Sphere based on the JavaScript library
4. Easy Panorama(Fee)
Easy Panorama is an open-source WordPress plugin for websites that enables the display of panorama view in a very accessible way. The user enjoys the panoramic view by scrolling it on the x-axis or moving his mobile device.
Same as the other three above, the plugin comes with an easy to use a shortcode that you can add to your website directly. With just three clicks you can create your panorama and embed it to your site.
List of features
- It works with Paver Javascript and CSS files.
- Can be customized from Panorama Settings page.
- Use shortcode to embed panoramic images
- Free support at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-panorama
5. Slider Revolution (Included in all WpEstate Themes)
You can create a panoramic slider of a featured property with Slider Revolution which is the number one responsive WordPress slider plugin.
This plugin has a full functionality meaning you can create a slider gallery, a carousel, a hero page and even a whole front page with the drag & drop editor.
To create an engaging panoramic slider once you installed this plugin edit the Panorama defaults in the Rev Slider settings: you can hover your mouse over each option for extra info. Upload your panoramic images that should have a recommended size of 4096×2048. This is to ensure an equilibrium between loading speed and quality.
Configure the Panorama Settings by selecting the Add-ons tab from Slide Settings, and choose the settings to use for the Panorama. You can choose from different options available to set the navigation and enable zoom to navigate in and out by scrolling.
List of features:
- Responsive design
- Highly customizable
- Easy to use and no coding required
- Huge creative potential
- Free Add-ons and full documentation here.
