General solutions for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) natural convection flow of an incompressible viscous fluid over a moving plate are established when thermal radiation, porous effects, and slip condition are taken into consideration. These solutions, obtained in closed-form by Laplace transform technique, depend on the slip coefficient and the three essential parameters Gr, Pr eff , and K eff . They satisfy all imposed initial and boundary conditions and can generate a large class of exact solutions corresponding to different fluid motions with technical relevance. For illustration, two special cases are considered and some interesting results from the literature are recovered as limiting cases. The influence of pertinent parameters on the fluid motion is graphically underlined.