Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce – Amitry vs Slider-Carousel-Shortcodes-WC-Product

Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce – Amitry is a fast, responsive WooCommerce slider plugin for products and product categories. Create a product slider, product carousel or category carousel in minutes with the Gutenberg block, the Elementor widget or the [amitry_slider] shortcode. Use it to highlight featured products, show new arrivals, promote sale products, display best sellers or guide shoppers into your WooCommerce product categories. The slider is lightweight, mobile-friendly and built to load only on pages where it is actually used. View the live demo Why choose this WooCommerce slider? Product slider and category slider in one plugin – showcase WooCommerce products or product categories. No code required – add sliders with a Gutenberg block, Elementor widget or shortcode. Responsive by default – set separate columns for desktop, tablet and mobile. Lightweight and fast – CSS and JavaScript load only when a slider is rendered. SEO-friendly output – server-side rendered HTML keeps slider content visible without JavaScript. Flexible styling – adjust card style, image shape, spacing, radius, shadows, colors and hover effects. Theme-friendly – works with classic themes and modern block themes. Translation-ready – includes a .pot file for localization. Add sliders your way Gutenberg block – insert the Amitry Slider block into any page or post and preview changes live in the editor. Elementor widget – use the dedicated Amitry Slider widget when Elementor is active. Shortcode – place [amitry_slider] anywhere shortcodes are supported. Popular use cases Homepage product slider – feature selected WooCommerce products on your homepage. New arrivals carousel – automatically show your newest products. Best sellers slider – highlight popular products from your store. Sale products slider – promote discounted products and deals. Featured products showcase – display a hand-picked product selection. Product category carousel – help shoppers browse your store by category. Related products slider – keep visitors shopping on single product pages. Landing page carousel – add a focused product carousel to campaigns and sales pages. Product slider features Choose which WooCommerce products to show: Newest products Best selling products On-sale products Featured products Top rated products Manually selected products Products from a selected category Control what appears on each product card: Product image Product title Price with sale strike-through Sale badge Rating stars Short description Stock status Add-to-cart button Category slider features Create a WooCommerce category carousel with: All product categories or selected categories Optional category exclude list Sorting by name, product count or menu order Option to hide empty categories Fallback to the first product image when a category has no thumbnail Optional product count per category Layout and design options Two free card styles: Clean Card and Minimal Rounded, square or circle image shapes Adjustable columns per device Adjustable gaps, card padding, border radius and shadow Hover effects: lift, zoom, lift + zoom and shine Navigation arrows, dots, scrollbar, progress bar and slide counter Keyboard control Autoplay with delay, loop and pause-on-hover options Block editor integration The Gutenberg block includes a clean two-panel sidebar: Settings – choose the slider type, product source, layout, behavior and navigation. Styles – customize card style, colors, shadows, image shape and hover effects. The block uses server-side rendering, so the editor preview closely matches the frontend output. Shortcode examples [amitry_slider type="products" filter="newest" count="12"] [amitry_slider type="products" filter="sale" slides_desktop="4"] [amitry_slider type="products" filter="featured" count="8"] [amitry_slider type="categories" sort="count"] All block options are also available as shortcode attributes. Performance and accessibility Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce – Amitry is built to stay lightweight: CSS and JavaScript load only on pages where a slider is rendered. Swiper is bundled locally, so no external CDN request is needed. Optional query caching can reduce repeated product and category queries. The slider respects the system prefers-reduced-motion setting. When reduced motion is enabled, autoplay is disabled, slide transitions are instant and hover motion is removed. WooCommerce compatibility Requires WooCommerce. Compatible with HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage). Compatible with WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks. Works with classic themes and block themes. Works with the latest supported WordPress and WooCommerce versions. Free plugin and Pro add-on The free plugin works fully on its own and includes the core product slider, category slider, Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, shortcode, responsive controls and styling options. A separate Pro add-on extends the free plugin through documented hooks and adds advanced shop features, including: Premium designs: Overlay, Circle, 3D Carousel and Masonry Hover image swap Automatic New and Bestseller badges AJAX add to cart Quick View popup Sale countdown timer Wishlist with a dedicated wishlist page Stock progress bar Low-stock label View the live demo Get the Pro add-on

Include a Slider / Carousel effect in WooCommerce Shortcodes By adding a shorcode to the original woocmmerce shortcode you can get a Slider-Carousel effect it can be divided by columns ess: itemswc=”3″ you can split render silde with automatic animation autoplay=”true” or autoplay=”false” it is important to keep only 1 column in the original woocmmmerce shortcode as in the example: [wccarousel itemswc=”3″ autoplay=”true”] [products limit=”4″ columns=”1″ orderby=”popularity” ] [/wccarousel] if you want more slides per page the second shortcode will have to be written like this: [wccarousel-b] [/wccarousel-b] [wccarousel-b itemswc=”2″ autoplay=”true”] [products limit=”4″ columns=”1″ size=”full” orderby=”popularity” class=”” ] [/wccarousel-b] Touch and Drag Support Designed specially to boost mobile browsing experience. Mouse drag works great on desktop too! Fully Responsive Almost all options are responsive and include very intuitive breakpoints settings. Modern Browsers Owl uses hardware acceleration with CSS3 Translate3d transitions. Its fast and works like a charm! Zombie Browsers CSS2 fallback supported for older browser. Features: Supports latest Include a Slider / Carousel effect in WooCommerce Shortcodes Front end Demo (looks in the front-end website)