Mahabub Alam

BoldSlider is a lightweight, fully-responsive slider builder for WordPress with a real visual editor — drag layers on a canvas, set per-device overrides, and embed via shortcode or Gutenberg block.
<h4>Free version highlights</h4>
<ul>
<li>Visual builder — drag, resize, rotate layers on a real canvas. Eight resize handles. Keyboard nudge + delete.</li>
<li>Per-device responsive — override layer position, size, font size, color, and visibility separately for Desktop / Tablet / Mobile.</li>
<li>Layer types (7 free): Heading, Paragraph, Image, Button, Shape, YouTube embed, Vimeo embed.</li>
<li>Slider effects: Slide, Fade, Cube, Coverflow, Flip, Cards.</li>
<li>Backgrounds: image (with cover/contain/percentage/auto fit, repeat, 9-grid + custom position), color, uploaded MP4 video.</li>
<li>Background animations: Ken Burns, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Pan Left, Pan Right.</li>
<li>Navigation arrows with placement (inside/outside) + position (top/middle/bottom) + size + offset + colors + hover styles.</li>
<li>Pagination (bullets / fraction / progress bar) with placement, position, bullet size/gap, clickable, active + inactive colors.</li>
<li>Thumbnail strip (Swiper Thumbs).</li>
<li>Autoplay with delay + pause-on-hover.</li>
<li>Layer animations — 8 CSS-based entrance presets (fade, fade-up/down/left/right, zoom-in/out).</li>
<li>Button hover styles + 12 built-in arrow icons.</li>
<li>Starter templates: Multiple ready-to-use templates (Hero, Business, Portfolio, Testimonials, Promo / Sale, Product Launch, Team, Event, Startup, Minimal, Restaurant, Charity, Welcome).</li>
<li>Embed via <code>[boldslider id="your-slider-slug"]</code> shortcode or Gutenberg block.</li>
<li>Import / Export sliders as JSON.</li>
<li>Duplicate sliders + slides in one click.</li>
<li>Slider library page with thumbnail previews + search.</li>
<li>Performance: lazy-load images, no jQuery, no external CDN, deferred JS.</li>
<li>SEO friendly: semantic <code><h1></code>–<code><h6></code> headings, <code>alt</code> and <code>title</code> attributes (Media Library or custom).</li>
<li>Accessibility: keyboard navigation, proper ARIA labels.</li>
</ul>
<h4>External services</h4>
BoldSlider does not call out to any external services or CDNs. All assets are bundled locally inside the plugin.
<h3>Development</h3>
<h4>Source code</h4>
The compiled/minified JavaScript and CSS files in <code>assets/dist/</code> are built from the uncompressed source code included in this plugin:
<ul>
<li>Editor UI (React): <code>editor/src/</code> — JSX components, store, hooks, views, and SCSS styles.</li>
<li>Frontend runtime: <code>editor/src/frontend.js</code> — Swiper initialization and layer animations.</li>
<li>Block editor script: <code>editor/src/block.js</code> — Gutenberg block registration.</li>
<li>Stylesheets: <code>editor/src/editor.scss</code> and <code>editor/src/frontend.scss</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Build instructions</h4>
Prerequisites: Node.js 18+ and npm 9+.
<ol>
<li>Navigate to the plugin directory: <code>cd boldslider</code></li>
<li>Install dependencies: <code>npm install</code></li>
<li>Build production assets: <code>npm run build</code></li>
<li>For development with live rebuild: <code>npm run start</code></li>
</ol>
The build pipeline uses <code>@wordpress/scripts</code> (webpack-based).
<h4>Third-party libraries</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://swiperjs.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Swiper</a> v11 — MIT License — touch-enabled slider engine.</li>
</ul>

BoldSlider

A fast, modern WordPress slider plugin with a visual layer editor. Powered by Swiper. No jQuery, no external CDN.

ctmusicnz

craig7301

Adding a hero image to your WordPress website can be a painful process especailly if you are not fluent in writing php and css.
This plugin was written with divi in mind and works perfectly for Divi theme users.
Detailed documenatation for this plugin can be found at https://coded.co.nz/documentation
<h3>License</h3>
License: GPLv2 or later
Copyright (C) 2018 Chris Thompson and Craig Walker
The authors may be contacted through admin@coded.co.nz
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

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