Amitry Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce vs ShopWP

Amitry Product & Category Slider is a fast, responsive slider for WooCommerce that lets you showcase products or product categories in a clean, customizable carousel. Build a WooCommerce product slider or a category carousel in minutes with a Gutenberg block, an Elementor widget, or a simple shortcode, with no code required. Whether you want to highlight featured products on your homepage, scroll through best sellers, or guide shoppers into product categories, this plugin gives you a lightweight, mobile-friendly slider that loads only where you use it. Get the Pro add-on for premium designs, a thumbnail strip, a full screen lightbox, a category dropdown, a masonry grid view and more. Live demo: see the product slider, category carousel and every premium design in action on the live demo site. In the wild Two live photography stores run it, both used with kind permission: peteraphoto.com/about carries a product slider of around 620 images on the free version, which is a fair test of whether “lightweight” holds up at scale. peteraitchison.co.uk uses the Pro add-on throughout: a plain full-width showcase on the home page, and collection pages built from product categories with a thumbnail strip, arrows and a lightbox. Why choose this WooCommerce slider No code needed. Add a slider with a block, widget or shortcode Product slider and category slider in one plugin Fully responsive. Separate settings for desktop, tablet and mobile Lightweight and fast. Assets load only on pages with a slider SEO-friendly. Server-side rendered HTML, content visible without JavaScript Works with any theme. Block themes (FSE) and classic themes Accessible. Keyboard navigation and respects the system reduced-motion setting Translation-ready. Ships with a .pot file Honest free version. Everything described here is in the free plugin Three ways to add a slider Gutenberg block. Drag the Amitry Slider block into any page or post with a live preview Elementor widget. A dedicated Amitry Slider widget appears in the Elementor editor Shortcode. Drop [amitry_slider] into any content area All three share one render engine, so every option behaves identically wherever you use it. Popular use cases Homepage product slider. Feature your best products front and center New arrivals carousel. Show the newest products in your store automatically Best sellers slider. Highlight your top selling WooCommerce products Sale and deals slider. Display on-sale products, with an optional countdown timer in Pro Featured products showcase. Present a hand-picked selection of products Product category carousel. Help shoppers browse your store by category Related products slider. Keep visitors shopping on single product pages Photography and portfolio galleries. Show uncropped photos at their true proportions Shop and landing page carousels. Add a product carousel anywhere with the block, widget or shortcode Product slider Pull products from any of these sources: Newest products Best selling On sale Featured Top rated Manual selection By category Show or hide each element: product image, title, price with sale strike-through, sale badge, rating stars, short description, stock status and an add-to-cart button. Category slider Show all product categories with an optional exclude list Sort by name, product count or menu order Hide empty categories Falls back to the first product image when a category has no thumbnail Optional product count per category Layout and design Two card styles: Clean Card and Minimal Rounded, square or circle image shapes Aspect ratios: 4:3, 1:1, 3:4 and 16:9 Image Fit. Crop to fill for uniform cards, or show the full image uncropped on a neutral backdrop, ideal for photography Content Alignment. Align the card title, price and other text left, center or right Max Width. Cap how wide the slider grows and center it, which keeps single-column sliders tidy on full width themes Adjustable columns per device, gap, card padding, radius and shadow Hover effects: lift, zoom, shine and lift plus zoom Section heading, subheading and an optional View All button Behavior and navigation Transitions. Slide, or Fade for one large image at a time Arrows, dots, scrollbar, progress bar, slide counter and keyboard control Autoplay with delay, loop and pause on hover Per-device control over which navigation appears Block editor integration The Gutenberg block has a clean two-panel sidebar: a Settings panel for the data source, layout, behavior and navigation, and a Styles panel for card style, colors, shadows and hover effects. A live server-side preview shows exactly what visitors will see. Shortcode examples [amitry_slider type="products" filter="newest" count="12"] [amitry_slider type="products" filter="on_sale" slides_desktop="4"] [amitry_slider type="products" effect="fade" fit="contain"] [amitry_slider type="products" align="center" max_width="1140"] [amitry_slider type="categories" sort="count"] All block options are available as shortcode attributes. Performance CSS and JavaScript load only on pages where a slider is rendered Optional query caching for product and category queries Images are requested at a proportional size, so photos keep their real proportions and no extra crop is generated on upload Swiper is bundled locally, with no external CDN requests WooCommerce compatible HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) compatible Cart and Checkout blocks compatible Works with the latest WooCommerce and WordPress Go further with Pro The free plugin above is complete and works fully on its own. The separate Pro add-on requires it and extends it through the public hook API, with nothing removed from the free version. Viewing and navigation Thumbnail strip. A row of clickable thumbnails below the slider, synced with the main image Lightbox. An expand button opens a full screen viewer with crossfading photos, a slideshow button, a full screen mode and swipe on touch devices. Each photo links to its product Hover Zoom. A magnifier lens follows the pointer and zooms into detail using the original image Grid View Toggle. Visitors switch between the slider and a true masonry grid of uncropped photos, with a control for the number of columns Browsing and scale Category Dropdown. A category selector in the section head lets visitors switch category without leaving the page, so the slider can stand in for a shop page. Products load on demand Load More. Show one batch and append the next on demand, which keeps large catalogues fast Selling Hover Image Swap. Show the second product image on hover Custom Badges. Automatic New and Bestseller badges AJAX Add to Cart. Add to the cart without reloading the page Quick View. A product preview popup Sale Countdown. A timer on products whose sale has an end date Wishlist. A heart button with a dedicated wishlist page Stock Bar and Low Stock Label. Show scarcity on low-stock products Premium designs Overlay, Circle, 3D Carousel and Masonry See the live demo, or get the Pro add-on.

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