Carousel Block – Showcase Images in Elegant Sliding Displays vs Serious Slider

Turn static image lists into elegant, swipeable carousels your visitors love to browse – right inside the Gutenberg editor, no code required. Plugin Demo | Documentation | Get Pro Version Why Carousel Block? Rows of static images take up space and get skipped. Carousel Block turns them into a sleek, dynamic slider that captivates your audience – add the block, drop in your images, and publish a beautiful, responsive carousel in minutes. Everything is configured visually from the block sidebar: reorder slides with drag and drop, add captions and links, fine-tune autoplay and navigation, and choose from Slide, Fade, and Creative transition effects. Responsive controls let you set width, height, and column count separately for desktop, tablet, and mobile, so your carousel looks right on every device. Free Features Reorder Slides: Rearrange slides or images without deleting and recreating them. Captions: Add a caption to each slide image. Click Action: Make any slide linkable with a click action. Responsive Controls: Customize width, height, and column number for different devices. Caption Styling: Customize text alignment, typography, overlay colors, text and background colors, and padding. Slide Link Target: Choose whether links open in the same tab or a new tab. Slider Options: Control loop, speed, autoplay, autoplay delay, pagination, and navigation. Effects: Explore Slide, Fade, and Creative transition effects. Slider Style: Set background and padding for the slider. Pro Version Need more control? Carousel Block Pro unlocks advanced interactions, effects, and per-device display options. Pro features include: Image in Lightbox: Open the slide image in a lightbox. Link on Caption: Set the slide link on the caption. Touch Move: Control the slider with touch gestures. Advanced Autoplay: Disable on interaction, pause on mouse enter, reverse direction, and stop on last slide. Free Mode: Drag slides freely, with an optional sticky behavior. More Effects: Cube, Coverflow, Flip, and Cards transitions. Mousewheel Sliding: Move through slides with the mousewheel. Per-Device Pagination & Navigation: Show or hide pagination and navigation on tablet and mobile. Dynamic Bullets: Enable dynamic pagination bullets. Advanced Captions: Show captions on hover, position them outside the image, and change vertical alignment. How to Use Carousel Block Install and activate the Carousel Block plugin. In the Gutenberg editor, add the Carousel block from the “Widgets” block category. Add your images and arrange the slides. Adjust settings from the right-side settings sidebar. Publish – your carousel is live! For installation help, click on the Installation tab. Use Cases Image Galleries: Present photo collections in a compact, swipeable format. Client Logo Sliders: Showcase partner and client logos in a rotating strip. Portfolios: Highlight projects and creative work slide by slide. Promotions: Feature linked banners for products, offers, or landing pages. Did you like this plugin? Dislike it? Do you have a feature request? Please share your feedback with us. Check out the Parent Plugin of this plugin- B Blocks – A blocks collection and page building tool for Gutenberg. Check out our other WordPress Plugins- Html5 Video Player – Display videos as single and playlist in multiple skins. PDF Poster – Display/Embed PDF files with different styles. Html5 Audio Player – Listen audios with awesome visuals. StreamCast – Customizable radio player with different skins. 3D Viewer – Embed 3D models and 3D products with interaction. Advanced Post Block – Show posts and custom posts in different layouts. Source Code You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository: Carousel Block on GitHub Third-Party Libraries This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries. Swiper Source: https://swiperjs.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper License: MIT – https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper/blob/master/LICENSE Purpose: Modern touch slider used for Slider and News Ticker components. Freemius Lite SDK Source: https://bplugins.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/freemius-lite-sdk License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Purpose: Provides an opt-in consent form for usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin. No data is sent before explicit user consent. External Services: Communicates with api.bplugins.com (activation events) and wp.freemius.com (opt-in processing) only after user opt-in. See bPlugins Privacy Policy and Freemius Privacy Policy. bpl-tools Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls. External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made

Overview Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress. Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds. Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience. Live Demo | Documentation | Features | Support Serious Slider uses the very familiar WordPress dashboard interface for creating slides and sliders so there’s absolutely no learning curve. You just select the media image and press “Create Slider”. After that it’s like adding or editing WordPress posts, using featured images and other meta information like buttons and URLs. Serious Slider works with all WordPress themes and has been designed to integrate seamlessly with our own themes. Main Features Create unlimited sliders with unlimited slides. The only limit is your imagination on how to use them. Add titles, texts, buttons and links to each slide. All slide texts support HTML tags and even other shortcodes. Easy to use media button. Effortlessly add slideshows in posts, pages or custom post types via the “Add Slider” media button in the WordPress text editor. Then just select your desired image slider from a dropdown list, no need to remember or copy slider IDs Auto-generated Shortcodes and PHP integration. Use the auto generated shortcode to integrate slideshows with themes or other plugins. Copy-paste the auto generated PHP code to integrate with custom code. Serious Slider Block. Insert slideshows in the content managed with the block editor Serious Slider Widget. Display slideshows in sidebars via the classic Serious Slider widget Use multiple sliders in the same page. Use multiple instances of the same slider with distinct visual configurations. Familiar admin user interface. Create sliders and slides with the familiarity of managing posts and categories, without having to learn another user interface Lightweight and powerful. Only minimum JavaScript and CSS3 are being loaded on your site Fast slider creation. Create awesome, responsive WordPress slideshows in a matter of seconds Browser compatibility. The image slider looks and behaves great on various devices and browsers 8+ Appearance Styles. Choose from different appearance styles to make the navigation arrows, bullets, buttons and colors match your site. 7+ Transition Effects. Fade, Slide, Overslide, Underslide, Parallax, Horizontal flip and Vertical Flip. 5+ Caption Text Animations. Choose how caption text appears on the slide: Fade, Slide, Blur and Zoom In/Out. Highly customizable. Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color and accent color. Individual options for each slider. All the customization options and set individually for every slider and locally for each slider block instance. Translation ready. Every single line of text in the slider is translatable both in the front-end as well in the back-end. Compatible with multi-language plugins (WPML, qTranslate, PolyLang). SEO friendly. Built with search engines in mind, the slider uses correct HTML semantics. Accessibility ready. Once click demo content. It’s that easy, you’re one click away from having a working image slider to get you started. Customization Features Add individual URLs to target specific pages Add slide buttons with customizable link, link text and “open in new window” option Choose how to make text over images more visible: either add text shadow, multiline text background or full caption background Choose from 8 slider styles, 7 transition effects and 5 caption text animations Customize block instances separately from the general slider options Customize your slider’s transition duration and delay Choose between auto-height and fixed size for your images Customize your slider’s font size, text alignment, caption size and accent color Functionality Features Our image slider uses WordPress core functionality only, providing you with the familiar WordPress interface for creating both slides and slides. Easily transfer existing slides from one slider to another Schedule slides to automatically become visible at any time in the future. Quickly restore deleted slides from the Trash Use WordPress’ text editor to add HTML content to your slides Bulk edit slides and slides