General Slider for WordPress Plugin Directory

General Slider is a fast, modern slider for WordPress. Create a slider once, then place it anywhere with a block or shortcode — no page builder and no coding required.

Use it as a hero slider, image carousel, testimonial slider, logo carousel, product showcase or fullscreen banner, in the block editor, with a shortcode, or as an Elementor widget — on any block or classic theme. It’s ideal for WooCommerce product sliders, Full Site Editing layouts, portfolios and landing pages.

Browse the demo gallery — see every ready-made slider you can import in one click · Development on GitHub — report issues or contribute.

Why General Slider?

Lightweight and fast — no jQuery on the front end (built on the Splide engine)

Accessibility-first — keyboard, screen reader, play/pause and reduced-motion support

Works with any theme — block (FSE) or classic

Beginner friendly — build sliders from the WordPress admin, no code

Block, shortcode and Elementor — add a slider anywhere

Loads only where needed — assets are added only on pages that show a slider

Perfect for

Business and agency websites

Portfolios and landing pages

Hero sections and fullscreen banners

Image and logo carousels

Testimonials and team showcases

Product showcases and WooCommerce banners

Getting started

Install and activate General Slider.

Go to General Slider > Add New, add your slides, or import a ready-made demo from the Demo Library.

Add the General Slider block to any page, or paste the shortcode. Done.

Features Editing

Reusable sliders — build slides manually, or pull them dynamically from your posts, pages or WooCommerce products

Per-slide image or background video (self-hosted MP4/WebM, YouTube or Vimeo)

Sub heading, heading, text, button and a whole-slide clickable link

Categories, a duplicate action and custom CSS per slider

Start from a ready-made demo when creating a new slider

Display

Gutenberg block, shortcode and Elementor widget

Five design presets — Hero, Split, Minimal, Testimonial and Fullscreen

Navigation & frame skins — Classic, Soft, Stories, Stories Progress (auto-filling segments), Numbers, Vertical, Corner, Neon, Minimal, Pill, Outline, Retro, Glass and Dark looks for the arrows, dots and slider frame; mix any skin with any preset

Text entrance animations — fade, fade up/down, slide from left/right or zoom, staggered across the sub heading, heading, text and button

Device-specific settings — different slides-per-view, gap, height, arrows, dots and content visibility for tablet and mobile

Slide or fade transitions, autoplay with a pause control

Multiple slides per view (carousel) with adjustable gap

Thumbnail navigation and Ken Burns zoom

Overlay (solid or gradient), image fit, focus point and accent colour

Performance

No jQuery on the front end

Conditional asset loading — nothing loads on pages without a slider

Lazy-loaded images, with the first slide eager and high-priority for a better LCP

Sliders initialise only when scrolled into view

RTL ready

Accessibility

Full keyboard navigation and screen-reader labels

Play/pause button for autoplay

Respects the reduced-motion setting

For developers

Filters: general_slider_settings, general_slider_slides, general_slider_config, general_slider_html, general_slider_presets, general_slider_skins, general_slider_dynamic_query_args and general_slider_dynamic_slide

Register your own design preset or navigation skin, or reshape a dynamic slider’s query and slides

Demos & migration

Demo Library — import ready-made sliders, images included, in one click

Export any slider as a portable demo package (.zip)

JSON import / export, plus global default settings for new sliders

External services This plugin includes an optional Demo Library that loads ready-made sliders from a remote service hosted on GitHub Pages: devmonowar.github.io/wp-plugin-demo-library

It connects to this service only when you:

open the Demo Library screen — to download the list of demos and show their preview images; and

click Import Demo — to download that demo’s data and images into your site’s Media Library.

These are plain, read-only requests for files. No personal data is collected or sent, and no request is made unless you use the Demo Library. The service is provided by GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.) — terms of service — privacy statement.