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.

neilgee

This plugin adds SlickNav Responsive Mobile Menu functionality to WordPress.
SlickNav Responsive Menu has multi level menu support.
Cross browser Compatible.
Keyboard Accessible.
Degrades gracefully without JavaScript.
Creates ARIA compliant menu.
Option to add a search field.
Option to add a logo.
Internationalized.
Advanced Filter.
Combine multiple menus.
<h3>Usage</h3>
The settings are found via the dashboard Settings > SlickNav Menu
<ul>
<li>
Here you choose your Menu to be used as Mobile Menu – original has to already be on page
</li>
<li>
Maximum width for the menu to appear, default is 600px
</li>
<li>
Menu Label, MENU is default
</li>
<li>
Parent links, true or false, whether a parent link that has a submenu is clickable to a page
</li>
<li>
Show Child Links, false by default
</li>
<li>
Open/close Menu speed option
</li>
<li>
Fix Menu to Head, using position fixed to body tag
</li>
<li>
Option for branding logo opposite menu label – smaller works better such as 40px in height and up to 140px in width
</li>
<li>
Option to hide header with a ‘.site-header’ class when Slicknav Menu is visible
</li>
<li>
Option to add in a search field at the bottom of the menu
</li>
<li>
Search icon background color
</li>
<li>
Options to change the opening and closing symbols
</li>
<li>
Advanced filter to adjust Slicknav values – https://wpbeaches.com/slicknav-wordpress-filter-to-adjust-values/
Demo – http://wpbeaches.com (resize browser window to below 600px)
Please note that SlickNav jQuery plugin is the work of Josh Cope, he is not responsible for the working or support of this plugin.
</li>
</ul>

SlickNav Mobile Menu

Why is this not part of the Word press core.
Sure it is just JS and css, but it is so useful!

Menus should often be better built from the page structure, not created manually.
I see people asking for this kind of menu all the time. Good luck finding one that works as good as this one.

Thank you, thank you thank you.

Best of the best

This plugin adds the option to use the SlickNav Responsive Mobile Menu in place of a regular menu at a designated size.

No BS Image Slider vs SlickNav Mobile Menu