CryoutCreations

<h4>Overview</h4>
<p>Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress.</p>
<p>Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds.  Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience.</p>
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<p><a href="http://demos.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress/serious-slider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a> | <a href="https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-tutorials/create-slider-serious-slider-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-plugins/cryout-serious-slider" rel="nofollow ugc">Features</a> | <a href="https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/forums/f/wordpress/plugins/serious-slider" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a></p>
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<p>Serious Slider uses the very familiar WordPress dashboard interface for creating slides and sliders so there’s absolutely no learning curve. You just select the media image and press “Create Slider”. After that it’s like adding or editing WordPress posts, using featured images and other meta information like buttons and URLs.</p>
<p>Serious Slider works with all WordPress themes and has been designed to integrate seamlessly with our own <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/author/cryout-creations/" title="Cryout Creations WordPress Themes" rel="ugc">selected themes</a>.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
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<li><strong>Create unlimited sliders with unlimited slides.</strong> The only limit is your imagination on how to use them.</li>
<li><strong>Add titles, texts, buttons and links to each slide.</strong> All slide texts support HTML tags and even other shortcodes.</li>
<li><strong>Easy to use media button.</strong> Effortlessly add slideshows in posts, pages or custom post types via the “Add Slider” media button in the WordPress text editor. Then just select your desired image slider from a dropdown list, no need to remember or copy slider IDs</li>
<li><strong>Auto-generated Shortcodes and PHP integration.</strong> Use the auto generated shortcode to include slideshows with themes or other plugins. Copy-paste the auto generated PHP code to integrate with custom code.</li>
<li><strong>Serious Slider Widget.</strong> Display slideshows in sidebars via the provided Serious Slider widget</li>
<li><strong>Use multiple sliders in the same page.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Familiar admin user interface.</strong> Create sliders and slides with the familiarity of managing posts and categories, without having to learn another user interface</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight and powerful.</strong> Only minimum JavaScript and CSS3 are being loaded on your site</li>
<li><strong>Fast slider creation.</strong> Create awesome, responsive WordPress slideshows in a matter of seconds</li>
<li><strong>Browser compatibility.</strong> The image slider looks and behaves great on various devices and browsers</li>
<li><strong>7+ Appearance Styles.</strong> Choose from different appearance styles to make the navigation arrows, bullets, buttons and colors match your site.</li>
<li><strong>7+ Transition Effects.</strong> Fade, Slide, Overslide, Underslide, Parallax, Horizontal flip and Vertical Flip.</li>
<li><strong>5+ Caption Text Animations.</strong> Choose how caption text appears on the slide: Fade, Slide, Blur and Zoom In/Out.</li>
<li><strong>Highly customizable.</strong> Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color and accent color.</li>
<li><strong>Individual options for each slider.</strong> All the customization options and set individually for every slider.</li>
<li><strong>Translation ready.</strong> Every single line of text in the slider is translatable both in the front-end as well in the back-end. Compatible with multi-language plugins (WPML, qTranslate, PolyLang).</li>
<li><strong>SEO friendly.</strong> Built with search engines in mind, the slider uses correct HTML semantics.</li>
<li><strong>Accessibility ready.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Once click demo content.</strong> It’s that easy, you’re one click away from a working image slider to get you started.</li>
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<h4>Customization Features</h4>
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<li>Add individual URLs to target specific pages</li>
<li>Add slide buttons with customizable link, link text and “open in new window” option</li>
<li>Choose how to make text over images more visible: either add text shadow, multiline text background or full caption background</li>
<li>Choose from 7 slider styles, 7 transition effects and 5 caption text animations</li>
<li>Customize your slider’s transition duration and delay</li>
<li>Choose between auto-height and fixed size for your images</li>
<li>Customize your slider’s font size, text alignment, caption size and accent color</li>
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<h4>Functionality Features</h4>
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<li>Our image slider uses WordPress core functionality only, providing you with the familiar WordPress interface for creating both slides and slides.</li>
<li>Easily transfer existing slides from one slider to another</li>
<li>Schedule slides to automatically become visible at any time in the future.</li>
<li>Quickly restore deleted slides from the Trash</li>
<li>Use WordPress’ text editor to add HTML content and even shortcodes to your slides</li>
<li>Bulk edit slides and slides</li>
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Serious Slider

Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress. Seriously!

Munir Kamal

<p>With <strong>Block Slider</strong>, you can use the power of WordPress Block Editor to create awesome slider content such as <strong>layer slider, video slider, image slider, fullscreen slider, post slider, product slider, WooCommerce slider, testimonial slider, gallery slider</strong>, and more. You can also use these sliders in Site Editor within any site template to use them globally.</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CpzBBrZY6ks?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p><a href="https://wpblockslider.com/library-sliders/" rel="nofollow ugc">Slider Templates</a> | <a href="https://wpblockslider.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Features</a> | <a href="https://docs.wpblockslider.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/block-slider/" rel="ugc">Support</a></p>
<p>Are you ready to make your website look amazing? Say hello to Block Slider – your new best friend for creating all sorts of fantastic sliders and carousels that will make your website stand out!</p>
<h4>Create Stunning Sliders and Carousels</h4>
<p>With Block Slider, you can make different types of sliders and carousels. Want to show off your favorite pictures? Create an Image Slider using image blocks. Want to add cool videos? Create a Video Slider using video blocks. You can create awesome sliders for any purpose!</p>
<h4>Create Responsive Sliders</h4>
<p>Block Slider makes sure your sliders look great on all devices – big screens, small screens, and everything in between! Your sliders will always shine, no matter where people see them.</p>
<h4>Create Posts Slider</h4>
<p>Got cool blog posts? Show them off with the Post Slider. It’s like a showcase for your best content. You will experience the same powerful Query options as the WordPress query block. Not just posts, you can create CPT sliders using any custom post type you may have on your website.</p>
<h4>Create WooCommerce Slider</h4>
<p>If you’re selling things on your website, Block Slider has your back. Showcase your products in a cool product slider. Use WooCommerce blocks that come with the plugin in your sliders and create stunning native WooCommerce sliders easily.</p>
<h4>Create Testimonial Slider</h4>
<p>Got something nice someone said about you, your website, product, or business? Use the Testimonial Slider to display those awesome words.</p>
<h4>Create Hero Banner Slider</h4>
<p>Want something at the top of your website that people can’t miss? Create eye-catching banner sliders the easy way!</p>
<h4>Fullwidth and Customizable</h4>
<p>Want your slider to stretch across the whole screen? Create Fullwidth Slider easily. And guess what? You can make it look just the way you want!</p>
<h4>Easy and Fun with WordPress Blocks & Editor</h4>
<p>Block Slider utilizes WordPress blocks and its user-friendly editor for effortless slider creation. You can easily incorporate various WordPress blocks into your slides, giving you more control compared to other slider plugins.</p>
<h4>Customize Your Sliders</h4>
<p>Make your sliders unique by changing colors, styles, and more. You’re the boss of your sliders, and you get to decide how they look. Block Slider comes with all the styling features you need while creating your stunning slider content.</p>
<h4>Ready-to-Use Slider Templates</h4>
<p>Don’t know where to start? No worries! Block Slider comes with ready-made designs. Just pick one you like, and you’re good to go! We have a growing sliders library where we keep adding new templates regularly.</p>
<h4>Easy-to-Use Controls</h4>
<p>Controlling your sliders is a piece of cake. You can use different buttons to move through your slides, and it’s super easy to do.</p>
<h4>Smooth Transitions</h4>
<p>When your slides change, they do it smoothly. No sudden jumps – just nice transitions that look great.</p>
<h4>Works with All Page Builders</h4>
<p>Whether you’re using Elementor, Beaver Builder, or any other page builder, Block Slider works smoothly with all of them. You can easily add your awesome sliders using a shortcode. It’s like magic that makes your sliders appear wherever you want them outside the block editor!</p>
<h4>Lightweight and Clean Code</h4>
<p>One more awesome thing – Block Slider is super lightweight and doesn’t slow down your website. It’s like having a powerful tool that works smoothly without making your website heavy. Plus, it generates clean and optimized code, ensuring your website stays tip-top.</p>
<p><a href="https://wpblockslider.com/library-sliders/" rel="nofollow ugc">Slider Templates</a> | <a href="https://wpblockslider.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Features</a> | <a href="https://docs.wpblockslider.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/block-slider/" rel="ugc">Support</a></p>
<p>Get ready to wow your visitors with amazing sliders and carousels. Block Slider has everything you need to make your website look fantastic. So, why wait? Let the sliding and carousel-ing begin!</p>


Block Slider – Responsive Image Slider, Video Slider & Post Slider

The key features of this block plugin appear to work satisfactorily; some recent reviews said it was broken, but I think things must have been fixed.

There are some fundamental flaws, however:

- The amount of whitespace shown in the editor interface above/below each slides is massive, and it's extremely hard to figure out where to select each 'slide' to customise it. It could be that the "Min Height" control is meant to control this, but if so, it doesn't work.

- Selecting the slider block and pressing "add slide" adds a slide, but if you have a smaller monitor or many slider blocks, it's added off-screen, and you have no idea if the button worked.

- Unless a tabbed interface is added to control content entry into each slide, the "quick preview" mode should be the default state on page load (as opposed to the editing), because of the vast amount of whitespace and vertical area this block takes up, it currently seriously impacts the usability of managing content elsewhere on your page/post.

- A feature enhancement would be to opt-out of the left/right carousel arrows/buttons. I'm having to hide these with CSS.

- The integration with Gutenberg Hub (and associated upsell features in the interface) leaves a bad taste in my mouth; if this was just a slider block plugin, then why do I want it to pull in templates from Gutenberg Hub? I don't.

- The admin interface for the plugin is unfinished and looks amateurish; one of the screens have placeholder text, and the other screens seem to iframe content in from another site (the styling is off, and there are security concerns with iframing unknown sites in). I've decided to hide this entire screen on my client sites.

Promising but currently not a good editing experience

Does not work. Shows dummy message on plugin page.

its not ready for production site.

I wanted a lean sliding solution for gutenberg and this plugin is exactly what i've searched for. Installed the premium trial version from the website and will buy it as soon as it is open for sale.

This is exactly what i needed

This used to be a great little slider - it did everything that I wanted it, cleanly and simply, with the huge bonus of editing the sliders in the page.

Now, with the update to version 2, it's lost that major bonus. It didn't automatically recognise my original sliders, as they promised, so I had to recreate them and then I find that there's no block to insert them back into the page and the shortcode didn't work.

All in all a very disappointing mess that just proves the adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!".

Should not have updated it

Very impressed with this little slider block, if you're using the Block editor this will make a good addition to your site. Nice, complete and modern controls. If you only need to slide one thing at a time (think mastheads or hero images) then the free version works really great. If you want to slide more than one thing then you might want to consider PRO. 

Don't listen to the one-star reviews - give it a try.

Great addition to my site


The free plug descripiton here is highly misleading. It promotes all the pro features as if they are included. They are not. I like that the UI and the way you add sliders/slides is easy but the misleading nature of the description makes me want to use something else. 


Highly Misleading


You can't create a slider and add a block to it. Which by the name you'd assume you can do.  What even is this plugin?  It doesn't do anything.  


Can't do anything with this plugin

Create Responsive Sliders using WordPress Blocks. Image slider, video slider, YouTube slider, post slider, product slider, WooCommerce slider & more.

Serious Slider vs Block Slider – Responsive Image Slider, Video Slider & Post Slider