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.

John Dorner

Steven Ayers

<p>It is increasingly important for you to make your images meet accessibility standards. Images must have alternative text (alt text) added so that the visually impaired can use screen readers to understand the purpose and context of the image displayed on the screen.</p>
<p>In addition to making your site more accessible, using alt text helps your site rank better in search engines. This is an added SEO benefit for marketers.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as a site grows, it becomes difficult and time-consuming to edit and maintain image alt text. Fix Alt Text plugin can help you discover where alt text is needed, quickly fix issues, and even force users to input alt text as images are used throughout the site in the future.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Find Usage: Easily find all uses of alt text by scanning the site</li>
<li>Find keyword usage: Search for specific keywords used in alt text</li>
<li>Inline Editing: Instantly edit alt text without manually editing and searching through the content of a post, attachment, or custom post type</li>
<li>Detect Issues: Quickly identify issues with your alt text to assist you in ADA compliance</li>
<li>Toggle Features: Control which features are active for maximum flexibility</li>
<li>Tool Access: Control which user roles have access to the plugin</li>
<li>Settings Access: Control which user roles have access to changing settings</li>
<li>Global Settings: In a multisite setup, save time by using global settings and select which sites will inherit those settings</li>
<li>Fully Multisite Compatible: Force sites within the network to use global network settings for easy management</li>
</ul>
<h3>Bonus Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Privacy: It does not use any 3rd-party tracking</li>
<li>No Sales Pitches: It does not sell or promote any pro plugins</li>
<li>Free: It’s currently and will continue to be a Free plugin!</li>
<li>No Littering: It cleans up after itself if uninstalled or when a blog is removed from a multisite network.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatible With</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multisite Installations</li>
<li>WP Gutenberg Editor</li>
<li>WP Classic Editor</li>
<li>PHP Versions 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/where-used/" rel="ugc">WhereUsed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/" rel="ugc">Advanced Custom Fields – ACF</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/humanmade/network-media-library" rel="nofollow ugc">Network Media Library</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Language Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fix-alt-text" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate this plugin in your language.</a></li>
</ul>


Fix Alt Text


This is a great little plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin, and does it very well!Fixes a very real world problem we had.Thanks guys.


Amazing And Really Useful Little Plugin

Manage alt text site-wide easily with Fix Alt Text. You can also force users to use alt text when adding images in Gutenberg and Classic editors.

No BS Image Slider vs Fix Alt Text