Serious Slider for WordPress Plugin Directory
Serious Slider is the #12 ranked slider app on WordPress, with a 3.4 average rating from 8 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Serious Slider is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by CryoutCreations. With a rating of 3.4★ from 8 reviews, it currently ranks #12 in the Slider category.
AppRanks data: Serious Slider ranks #12 in Slider on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 2% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Serious Slider is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Slider category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 8 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by CryoutCreations — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.4★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (8) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Serious Slider works
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Overview Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress.
Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds. Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience.
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Serious Slider uses the very familiar WordPress dashboard interface for creating slides and sliders so there’s absolutely no learning curve. You just select the media image and press “Create Slider”. After that it’s like adding or editing WordPress posts, using featured images and other meta information like buttons and URLs.
Serious Slider works with all WordPress themes and has been designed to integrate seamlessly with our own themes.
Main Features
Create unlimited sliders with unlimited slides. The only limit is your imagination on how to use them.
Add titles, texts, buttons and links to each slide. All slide texts support HTML tags and even other shortcodes.
Easy to use media button. Effortlessly add slideshows in posts, pages or custom post types via the “Add Slider” media button in the WordPress text editor. Then just select your desired image slider from a dropdown list, no need to remember or copy slider IDs
Auto-generated Shortcodes and PHP integration. Use the auto generated shortcode to integrate slideshows with themes or other plugins. Copy-paste the auto generated PHP code to integrate with custom code.
Serious Slider Block. Insert slideshows in the content managed with the block editor
Serious Slider Widget. Display slideshows in sidebars via the classic Serious Slider widget
Use multiple sliders in the same page.
Use multiple instances of the same slider with distinct visual configurations.
Familiar admin user interface. Create sliders and slides with the familiarity of managing posts and categories, without having to learn another user interface
Lightweight and powerful. Only minimum JavaScript and CSS3 are being loaded on your site
Fast slider creation. Create awesome, responsive WordPress slideshows in a matter of seconds
Browser compatibility. The image slider looks and behaves great on various devices and browsers
8+ Appearance Styles. Choose from different appearance styles to make the navigation arrows, bullets, buttons and colors match your site.
7+ Transition Effects. Fade, Slide, Overslide, Underslide, Parallax, Horizontal flip and Vertical Flip.
5+ Caption Text Animations. Choose how caption text appears on the slide: Fade, Slide, Blur and Zoom In/Out.
Highly customizable. Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color and accent color.
Individual options for each slider. All the customization options and set individually for every slider and locally for each slider block instance.
Translation ready. Every single line of text in the slider is translatable both in the front-end as well in the back-end. Compatible with multi-language plugins (WPML, qTranslate, PolyLang).
SEO friendly. Built with search engines in mind, the slider uses correct HTML semantics.
Accessibility ready.
Once click demo content. It’s that easy, you’re one click away from having a working image slider to get you started.
Customization Features
Add individual URLs to target specific pages
Add slide buttons with customizable link, link text and “open in new window” option
Choose how to make text over images more visible: either add text shadow, multiline text background or full caption background
Choose from 8 slider styles, 7 transition effects and 5 caption text animations
Customize block instances separately from the general slider options
Customize your slider’s transition duration and delay
Choose between auto-height and fixed size for your images
Customize your slider’s font size, text alignment, caption size and accent color
Functionality Features
Our image slider uses WordPress core functionality only, providing you with the familiar WordPress interface for creating both slides and slides.
Easily transfer existing slides from one slider to another
Schedule slides to automatically become visible at any time in the future.
Quickly restore deleted slides from the Trash
Use WordPress’ text editor to add HTML content to your slides
Bulk edit slides and slides
Category rankings
As of Sep 7, 2026- Slider#12of 619Top 2%
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Keyword rankings
Serious Slider ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- Rank #956
Competitors & alternatives
Serious Slider doesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked slider apps on WordPress:
Where Serious Slider stands in the Slider category
Serious Slider ranks #12 of 619 apps in the Slider category, placing it in the top 2% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Serious Slider?
Serious Slider is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.4-star rating from 8 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Slider category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by CryoutCreations.
Who uses Serious Slider?
Currently around 20,000 active stores have installed Serious Slider. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Slider category on WordPress.
Where does Serious Slider rank on WordPress?
Serious Slider currently sits at position #12 in the Slider category on WordPress. That places it in the top 2% of 619 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.