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.

FL3R

FL3R Accessibility Suite adds an accessibility control panel for visitors to your WordPress site. It was specifically designed for users with visual impairments.
Allows the visitor to: 
* Change the text size of the website 
* Choose from five pleasant and high-contrast themes 
* Show, hide or display grayscale images 
* Use text-to-speech on your device to hear the settings available in the control panel 
* Choose between the highly readable Arial or OpenDyslexic font, developed for dyslexic people 
* Show or hide content from third party sites
All themes have been tested with the <a href="https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebAIM Contrast Checker</a> tool.
You can add the icon to access to accessibility control panel via shortcode, php or widget.
If this plugin has been useful to you, how about offering me a <a href="https://www.paypal.me/FL3R/" rel="nofollow ugc">coffee</a>?

FL3R Accessibility Suite

WordPress accessibility plugin for the visually impaired users.

No BS Image Slider vs FL3R Accessibility Suite