Aha Hero Slider – Responsive Carousel & Mobile-Friendly Banner Slider vs Image Widget

Aha Hero Slider is a 100% free hero carousel for WordPress: one shortcode, a dedicated slide library, and a front end that is tuned for real visitors — not only for wide desktop screens. Demo | Product page | Documentation | Support Why this plugin is different Hero sections often look great on desktop and fall apart on mobile — cramped text, awkward crops, buttons that are hard to tap. Aha Hero Slider is built so your Default slides adapt the layout: on phones and small tablets, each slide becomes a clean card — image on top, then headline, copy, and CTAs on a dedicated content area — so your offer stays readable, on-brand, and conversion-friendly on the device people actually use to browse. We’re Aha Plugins: we ship professional WordPress tools and use generous free plugins so you can see our quality firsthand. When you need more for your business, browse our plugins — we’ll be glad to earn your trust. What you get under the hood (technical overview) Dedicated Hero Slides CPT with fields for desktop image, mobile image, badge, headline, subtitle, and one or two action buttons Two slide templates: Default (text + buttons, with the mobile card behaviour above) and Image Only (full-area image with optional link) Shortcode [aha_hero_slider] with optional group to show different sliders on different pages Hierarchical Slide groups taxonomy for organizing slides Per-slide style options: text colors, font sizes, button colors, border radius Global Design settings: default arrow, bullet, text, and button colors; optional overlay mask; autoplay progress colors — from Settings → Design Optional autoplay progress indicator (progress="bar" or progress="circle" via shortcode); autoplay pauses on hover on pointer devices Arrows use a subtle hover reveal; pagination uses accessible controls Front-end carousel in vanilla JavaScript (no jQuery carousel dependency) Works with any theme or page builder (Elementor, Bricks, Oxygen, Divi, etc.) via shortcode Uninstall tab: optional removal of plugin data when the plugin is deleted from Plugins → Installed Plugins (not on deactivate alone) Translations The official language of the plugin is English. The following translations are included out of the box: Português do Brasil (pt_BR) — Brazilian Portuguese, complete translation included. Español (es_ES) — Spanish, complete translation included. Want to translate the plugin into your language? You can contribute translations on translate.wordpress.org. Global Design & Color Palette Go to Aha Hero Slider → Settings → Design to configure a neutral color palette for the slider. Set defaults for arrow colors, bullet colors, text colors, button colors, and an optional overlay mask for better text contrast. Individual slides can override these defaults with their own per-slide styles. Multiple Sliders on the Same Site Create Slide groups (taxonomy) and assign each slide to a group. Use the shortcode with a group slug: [aha_hero_slider group="homepage"]. Multiple groups: [aha_hero_slider group="home,sale"]. More from the same team: Aha Plugins — WordPress plugins for serious sites Third-party libraries The front-end carousel uses plain JavaScript (no jQuery). No carousel library is bundled and no data is sent to external servers for slideshow behaviour.

Image Widget is a simple plugin that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site. Image Widget Features Responsive MU Compatible Handles image resizing and alignment Link the image Add title and description Versatile – all fields are optional Upload, link to external image, or select an image from your media collection Customize the look & feel with filter hooks or theme overrides Quality You Can Trust Image Widget is developed and maintained by The Events Calendar, the same folks behind The Events Calendar, Event Tickets, and a full suite of premium plugins. This plugin is actively supported by our team and contributions from community members. If you see a question in the forum you can help with or have a great idea and want to code it up or submit a patch, that would be awesome! Not only will we shower you with praise and thanks, it’s also a good way to get to know us and lead into options for paid work if you freelance. Pull Requests & Translations Check us out on GitHub to pull request changes. Translations can be submitted here on WordPress.org. Documentation The built in template can be overridden by files within your template. Default vs. Custom Templates The Image Widget comes with a default template for the widget output. If you would like to alter the widget display code, create a new folder called “image-widget” in your template directory and copy over the “views/widget.php” file. Edit the new file to your hearts content. Please do not edit the one in the plugin folder as that will cause conflicts when you update the plugin to the latest release. New in 3.2: You may now also use the “sp_template_image-widget_widget.php” filter to override the default template behavior for .php template files. Eg: if you wanted widget.php to reside in a folder called my-custom-templates/ and wanted it to be called my-custom-name.php: add_filter('sp_template_image-widget_widget.php', 'my_template_filter'); function my_template_filter($template) { return get_template_directory() . '/my-custom-templates/my-custom-name.php'; } Filters There are a number of filters in the code that will allow you to override data as you see fit. The best way to learn what filters are available is always by simply searching the code for ‘apply_filters’. But all the same, here are a few of the more essential filters: widget_title This is actually a pretty typical filter in widgets and is applied to the widget title. widget_text Another very typical widget filter that is applied to the description body text. This filter also takes 2 additional arguments for $args and $instance so that you can learn more about the specific widget instance in the process of filtering the content. image_widget_image_attachment_id Filters the attachment id of the image. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_url Filters the url of the image displayed in the widget. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. THIS IS DEPRECATED AND WILL EVENTUALLY BE DELETED image_widget_image_width Filters the display width of the image. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_height Filters the display height of the image. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_maxwidth Filters the inline max-width style of the image. Hint: override this to use this in responsive designs 🙂 Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. Return null to remove this css from the image output (defaults to ‘100%’). image_widget_image_maxheight Filters the inline max-height style of the image. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. Return null to remove this css from the image output (defaults to null) image_widget_image_size Filters the selected image ‘size’ corresponding to WordPress registered sizes. If this is set to ‘tribe_image_widget_custom’ then the width and height are used instead. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_align Filters the display alignment of the image. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_alt Filters the alt text of the image. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_link Filters the url that the image links to. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_link_target Filters the link target of the image link. Accepts additional $args and $instance arguments. image_widget_image_attributes Filters a list of image attributes used in the image output. Similar to ‘wp_get_attachment_image_attributes’ Accepts $instance arguments image_widget_link_attributes Filters a list of attributes used in the image link. Similar to ‘wp_get_attachment_image_attributes’ Accepts $instance arguments Have You Supported the Image Widget? If so, then THANK YOU! Also, feel free to add this line to your wp-config.php file to prevent the image widget from displaying a message after upgrades. define( ‘I_HAVE_SUPPORTED_THE_IMAGE_WIDGET’, true ); For more info on the philosophy here, check out our blog post