dan.imbrogno

WordPress’ built-in Text widget is great, but it’s not all that user-friendly. Now you can use FlexSlider Space Manager to use the Tiny MCE editor that you’re familiar with to create “Slides” and organize them into “Slideshows”. You can then drop these Slideshows into any sidebar.

Flexslider Manager

Add a hero slideshow to any sidebar and display it with Tyler Smith's Flexslider. To use this plugin you must first install Space Manager.

kybern.ai

Kybern Breaking News lets editors manage homepage breaking news slides from the WordPress admin and render them on the site with a lightweight hero slider.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Manage slide titles, links, visibility, order, and hero images</li>
<li>Set a global company name and logo used in the slider label</li>
<li>Render the frontend slider with the <code>[kybern_breaking_news]</code> shortcode</li>
<li>Expose slide data through the <code>/wp-json/kybern-breaking-news/v1/slides</code> REST API</li>
<li>Keep the frontend lightweight without heavy page builder dependencies</li>
</ul>
The plugin does not require any external CDN assets and uses WordPress core libraries for the admin experience.

Kybern Breaking News

Manage homepage news slides with a lightweight hero slider shortcode and REST API.

Flexslider Manager vs Kybern Breaking News