Jon Weatherhead

This is an ultra-minimal no-frills responsive and accessible image carousel / slider.
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. 
I’m not saying that they don’t have their place but that sometimes they are excessive.
This plugin is for someone who just wants to have linked images scroll by in a loop on their website.
<h3>How To Use</h3>
No BS Image Slider works by leveraging what WordPress already provides, by creating a new custom post type and taxonomy.
<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>
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.
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
To manually insert a slider, use the shortcode [nbis]. 
You must provide at minimum the slider slug.
The shortcode attributes are
<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>
A widget that exposes all of the above options is available.

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.

Michael Burridge

FAQ Concertina is a plugin for WordPress that enables you to easily display a list of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on your page or blog post in an attractive and presentable fashion.
This is achieved by using the following simple shortcode in your WordPress page or blog post:
<pre><code>[faq-concertina]
</code></pre>
When the list of FAQs appears on your page the answers are initially hidden with only the questions visible. This makes efficient use of the space available on the page and avoids large tracts of text which can be difficult for the reader to take in, especially on small screen devices such as smartphones.
The answer can be made to appear as an expandable section, concertina-style, by clicking on the question. The answer can be hidden again by clicking anywhere on either the question or answer.
With FAQ Concertina you can:
<ul>
<li>have any number of FAQs,</li>
<li>define the order in which the FAQs appear on the page,</li>
<li>determine whether or not more than one answer can be visible at any one time,</li>
<li>categorise FAQs so that FAQs from different categories can appear in separate lists, either on the same page or on separate pages,</li>
<li>customise the appearance of the FAQ listing to fit in with the style of your theme.</li>
</ul>
Although primarily intended for FAQs FAQ Concertina is, of course, not limited to just FAQs and can be used for any content with a heading where the content is initially hidden and can be expanded by clicking on the heading. Feel free to use your imagination to come up with all kinds of creative uses for FAQ Concertina!
<h4>WHAT’S NEW?</h4>
<ul>
<li>As of version 1.4.8 FAQs can now display a featured image (also known as post thumbnail)</li>
<li>As of version 1.4.6 FAQs support post revisions.</li>
<li>As of version 1.4.0 FAQ Concertina is WAI-ARIA compliant. This means that FAQ Concertina is fully accessible and compatible with screen readers and other assistive technologies. Thanks to Tim Kaye <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kts915" rel="nofollow ugc">@kts915</a> for contributing JavaScript code to make this possible.</li>
</ul>
The FAQ Concertina download includes a fully illustrated 20 page manual in <code>.pdf</code> format to help you get the most from the plugin. The manual can also be downloaded from the website:
<a href="http://www.zyriab.co.uk/faqconc/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.zyriab.co.uk/faqconc/</a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/michaelburridge" rel="nofollow ugc">http://twitter.com/michaelburridge</a>

FAQ Concertina

Display FAQs in an expandable concertina or accordion section. FAQs can be ordered and categorised, and their appearance can be customised.

No BS Image Slider vs FAQ Concertina