Jon Weatherhead

<p>This is an ultra-minimal no-frills responsive and accessible image carousel / slider.</p>
<p>There are many robust image slider plugins already. They work well and have a lot of features, some with even more features at the premium tier.<br />
I’m not saying that they don’t have their place but that sometimes they are excessive.</p>
<p>This plugin is for someone who just wants to have linked images scroll by in a loop on their website.</p>
<h3>How To Use</h3>
<p>No BS Image Slider works by leveraging what WordPress already provides, by creating a new custom post type and taxonomy.</p>
<ol>
<li>To begin, create your slides by using the Image Slide type. Be sure to add a featured image, and provide a link in the link field. Captions can be supplied by filling out the exerpt.</li>
<li>Create a slider by adding an Image Slider taxonomy. This allows a slide to be in multiple sliders.</li>
<li>Use the No BS Image Slider widget to configure which slider you want displayed, and the duration of each slide.</li>
</ol>
<p>A great <a href="https://planetjon.ca/4778/making-an-image-carousel-with-no-bs-image-slider" title="Making an image carousel with No BS Image Slider" rel="nofollow ugc">rundown of the plugin</a> is available on the Planetjon blog.</p>
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
<p>To manually insert a slider, use the shortcode [nbis].<br />
You must provide at minimum the slider slug.</p>
<p>The shortcode attributes are</p>
<ul>
<li>slider=”slug”</li>
<li>duration=”number” (seconds, default 5)</li>
<li>transition=”number” (seconds, default 1.25)</li>
<li>showcounter=”yes|no” (default no)</li>
<li>lazy=”yes|no” (default no)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Widget</h3>
<p>A widget that exposes all of the above options is available.</p>


No BS Image Slider

Being a minimalist, and needing a replacement for a slider plugin now abandoned, I found this plugin - and reading the description I thought "Wow, sounds great".

And it is. After installing it (it's a small but non-trivial learning curve to use) I downloaded and unpacked the source. I could hardly believe my eyes! One PHP file, 8.665 bytes; and one CSS file, 1.429 bytes. That's IT. And btw it's really well written, the author is obviously a good, modern programmer.

The sliders are custom 'tags', the slider images are custom posts (I think). Strange is, that you have to supply a 'Featured Image' and an image link for each slide, then it works - slides shown in the order of their creation. Just change the creation date to modify the order (untried).

One thing I found not so obvious in the UI at first: On hover over the slider then a 'paused' icon is displayed top left and the slider is indeed paused. As soon as the mouse goes away, the icon disappears and the animation continues. But at first I thought the paused icon was a button to click to cause a pause, and since it did not I thought the plugin was broken. Silly me, but perhaps there is a way to do it even more clearly?

It is now live on the homepage of a german apothecary.

BTW minimalists might want to pair this with WP Featherlight as a lightbox.

5 stars really well earned - thanks Jonathan!

Wow REALLY minimalistic

For displaying a light-weight image slider.

Troy Templeman

<p>Accordion Block Lite adds an accessible and responsive Accordion block to the block editor inserter that can be added to display list items that expand and collapse to show and hide their associated sections of content.</p>
<p>Ideal for condensing longform or complex content, such as Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Also useful for reducing page scrolling.</p>
<p>Upgrade to Pro at <a href="https://troytempleman.com/wordpress/blocks/accordion-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://troytempleman.com/wordpress/blocks/accordion-block/</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Accessible</li>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>Inserter button for adding accordion items   </li>
<li>Settings
<ul>
<li>Block alignment</li>
<li>Text alignment</li>
<li>Text formatting</li>
<li>Header element</li>
<li>Header icon <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header icon position <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Styles
<ul>
<li>Color
<ul>
<li>Text</li>
<li>Background</li>
<li>Link</li>
<li>Header text <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header text hover <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header text active <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header icon <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header icon hover <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header icon active <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header background <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header background hover <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header background active <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Panel text <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Panel background <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Typography
<ul>
<li>Font family</li>
<li>Font size</li>
<li>Appearance</li>
<li>Line height</li>
<li>Letter spacing</li>
<li>Text decoration</li>
<li>Letter case</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Dimensions
<ul>
<li>Padding</li>
<li>Margin</li>
<li>Item padding <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Item margin <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header icon width <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header padding <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header margin <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Panel padding <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Panel margin <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Border
<ul>
<li>Item border <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Item border radius <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header border <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header border hover <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header border active <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Header border radius <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Panel border <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Panel border radius <strong>[Pro]</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Variations <strong>[Pro]</strong>
<ul>
<li>Lines <strong>[Pro]</strong> </li>
<li>Blocks <strong>[Pro]</strong>  </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Demo</h4>
<p><a href="https://troytempleman.com/wordpress/blocks/accordion-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://troytempleman.com/wordpress/blocks/accordion-block/</a></p>
<h4>HTML</h4>
<p>Accordion Block Lite will output an Accordion block with the following HTML structure:</p>
<pre><code><ul class="wp-block-tt-accordion ">
    <li class="wp-block-tt-accordion-item wp-block-tt-accordion-item-1">
        <p class="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-header">
            <button class="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-header-button" id="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-header-button-9515cb6e-8464-424b-a277-3102bd5202cf" type="button" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-panel-9515cb6e-8464-424b-a277-3102bd5202cf">
                <span class="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-header-button-text">Title</span>
                <span class="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-header-button-icon-arrow" aria-hidden="true">
                    <svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24px" height="24px" viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
                        <polyline points="4.711,8 12,15.289 19.289,8" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" fill="none"></polyline>
                    </svg>
                </span>
            </button>
        </p>
        <div class="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-panel" id="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-panel-9515cb6e-8464-424b-a277-3102bd5202cf" role="region" aria-labelledby="wp-block-tt-accordion-item-header-button-9515cb6e-8464-424b-a277-3102bd5202cf" hidden="">
            <p>Panel</p>
        </div>
    </li>
</ul>
</code></pre>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you need help with Accordion Block Lite, please submit a ticket on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/accordion-block-lite" rel="ugc">Support</a> forum.</p>
<h3>Donate</h3>
<p>If you like Accordion Block Lite and would like to support it’s future development, how about <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troytempleman" rel="nofollow ugc">buying me a coffee</a>?</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>If you would like to contribute to the development of Accordion Block Lite, the repository is located on <a href="https://github.com/troytempleman/accordion-block-lite" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Accordion Block Lite is released under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2)</a>.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0 or greater</li>
<li>PHP version 7.4 or greater</li>
<li>MySQL version 5.7 or greater or MariaDB version 10.3 or greater.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/accordion/" rel="nofollow ugc">W3C Accordion (Sections With Show/Hide Functionality)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aditus.io/patterns/accordion/" rel="nofollow ugc">Accessible Accordion</a></li>
<li><a href="https://inclusive-components.design/collapsible-sections/" rel="nofollow ugc">Collapsible Sections</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/accessible-accordion-pattern/" rel="nofollow ugc">My favourite accessible accordion pattern</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.a11ywithlindsey.com/blog/javascript-accessibility-accordions" rel="nofollow ugc">JavaScript and Accessibility: Accordions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjYgdf6RKPU" rel="nofollow ugc">Creating an Accordion Block that uses the InnerBlock component</a></li>
</ul>


Accordion Block Lite

A block that displays list items that expand and collapse to show and hide their associated sections of content.

No BS Image Slider vs Accordion Block Lite