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Smart Slider 3 is the most powerful and intuitive WordPress plugin to create sliders which was never possible before. Fully responsive, SEO optimized and works with any WordPress theme. Create beautiful sliders and tell stories without any code.

Live slide editor A beautiful interface makes creating slides fast and efficient. The complete freedom to build what you want, the way you want. Edit your slides as you used to in page builders. Drop layers after each other and structure them with rows and columns.

Unique Layouts with Layers Enhance your slider with the layers and make your site even more unique and grandiose. Every heading, text, image, button and video can be edited easily with the customization options. Change all the details that really matter in typography and style.

Responsive, Mobile-Ready Sliders Switch your slider to a different device mode and optimize your content for the resolution. Your site can be enjoyed in any environment, be it a mobile, tablet or desktop.

Beautiful Sliders to Start No tech skills are needed, just pick a slider template. It works like magic! Choose from a variety of beautiful templates or start with a blank Slider. The simple way to build every kind: image, layer, video and post slider.

Most powerful features

Default position – Edit your slides as you used to in page builders.

Absolute position – Drag and drop your layers anywhere on the slide with absolute layers.

Slide Library – Slide Library provides several pre-made slides to kickstart your work.

Totally integrated with WordPress – Media manager, shortcode, widget, post permalinks, post editor.

Page Builder support – Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Page Builder by SiteOrigin, Visual Composer, WPBakery Page Builder, Gutenberg and many more…

Totally responsive and touch friendly – Sliders can be enjoyed on any device, be it a mobile, tablet or desktop.

Dynamic Slides – Available source: WordPress posts

Customizable controls – Arrows, Bullets, Autoplay, Bar, Thumbnails, Shadows

Slide backgrounds – 9 Super smooth background animations

Layers – Build unique designs with 6 varied layers: Image, Heading, Text, Button, Vimeo, YouTube

Font and Style manager system – Change easily all the details that really matter in typography and style.

Template sliders – 15 sliders to start

Features:

Import and Export sliders

Intuitive slide creation: choose images, select WordPress Posts or add YouTube and Vimeo videos

Static overlay

Touch swipe, scroll, keyboard navigation

Full-width and boxed responsive layouts

Slide-switching animations: Horizontal, Vertical, Fade

Slide background animations

Autoplay timing options

Slider controls: Arrow, Bullet, Autoplay, Bar, Thumbnail and Shadow

SEO optimized

Layers: Image, Heading, Text, Button, Vimeo, YouTube

Layer snap in visual slide editor

Adaptive layer font sizing

Hide layers on specific devices

Slide thumbnail image

WordPress Multi Site compatible

Custom responsive breakpoints

Testimonials

“I can heartily recommend the free version. It already provides more functionality than any other slider plugin – even many premium ones.” – Daniel Pataki – WPMU DEV

“Having tried more than a few WordPress slider plugins, both free and paid, I can honestly say that this is one of the best that I’ve ever tested…” – Daryn Collier – WPKube

“Since Smart Slider is free to use, I do not have to really stress how good a plugin it is because you can download it yourself and see for yourself.” – Kevin Muldoon

“This plugin can be used for much more than a simple slider – being able to create whole sections of your website.” – Oliver Dale – WPLift

“Taking all this into consideration we can safely say that Smart Slider 3 is one of the top WordPress slider plugins.” – Mark Zahra – WP Mayor

Support Smart Slider 3 is a community-driven project that would not be the same without your feedback. If you have any problem or feature request for this plugin, please feel free to contact us!

Smart Slider 3 Pro Features:

All template sliders

Layer animation builder

Live animation timeline

18 extra layers

2 extra slider types

Full page responsive layout

All generators for dynamic slides

Extra background animations (more than 54)

Built-in lightbox

Advanced controls and many more control presets

A ton of customization options

Premium support

Full list of features

Unlock Your Full Potential with Smart Slider 3 Pro

Dynamic slide sources in the FREE version

WordPress Posts: WordPress posts by Category and Tag filter or only the specified posts.

Dynamic slide sources in PRO version

WordPress Custom Posts: WordPress posts from custom post types by custom taxonomy filter or only the specified custom posts

WooCommerce slider from products: Woocommerce products by Category, Tag, Featured, In Stock and downloadable filter or only the specified products.

NextGEN Gallery: displays the images and related meta from the selected source gallery.

Events: Events by Category and Tag filter. Supported plugins: All-in-One Event Calendar, Events Manager, The Events Calendar

Image slider: displays the images and related meta from the selected source gallery. Supported plugins: Gallery by BestWebSoft, Photo Gallery by WD

Social dynamic sources: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Pinterest

Translations

English

Spanish (es_ES) 99%

Portuguese (Brasil) (pt_BR) 60%

Polish (pl_PL) 60%

Russian (ru_RU) 59%

Italian (it_IT) 55%

French (fr_FR) 50%

Hungarian (hu_HU) 44%

Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) 42%

Finnish (fi_FI) 39%

Japanese (ja_JP) 37%

German (de_DE) 31%

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