General Slider vs WP Flow Plus

General Slider is a fast, modern slider for WordPress. Create a slider once, then place it anywhere with a block or shortcode — no page builder and no coding required. Use it as a hero slider, image carousel, testimonial slider, logo carousel, product showcase or fullscreen banner, in the block editor, with a shortcode, or as an Elementor widget — on any block or classic theme. It’s ideal for WooCommerce product sliders, Full Site Editing layouts, portfolios and landing pages. Browse the demo gallery — see every ready-made slider you can import in one click · Read the full guide — setting up a slider, the block and shortcode options, and how the assets stay off pages that have no slider · Development on GitHub — report issues or contribute. Why General Slider? Lightweight and fast — no jQuery on the front end (built on the Splide engine) Accessibility-first — keyboard, screen reader, play/pause and reduced-motion support Works with any theme — block (FSE) or classic Beginner friendly — build sliders from the WordPress admin, no code Block, shortcode and Elementor — add a slider anywhere Loads only where needed — assets are added only on pages that show a slider Perfect for Business and agency websites Portfolios and landing pages Hero sections and fullscreen banners Image and logo carousels Testimonials and team showcases Product showcases and WooCommerce banners Getting started Install and activate General Slider. Go to General Slider > Add New, add your slides, or import a ready-made demo from the Demo Library. Add the General Slider block to any page, or paste the shortcode. Done. Features Editing Reusable sliders — build slides manually, or pull them dynamically from your posts, pages or WooCommerce products Per-slide image or background video (self-hosted MP4/WebM, YouTube or Vimeo) Sub heading, heading, text, button and a whole-slide clickable link Categories, a duplicate action and custom CSS per slider Start from a ready-made demo when creating a new slider Display Gutenberg block, shortcode and Elementor widget Five design presets — Hero, Split, Minimal, Testimonial and Fullscreen Navigation & frame skins — Classic, Soft, Stories, Stories Progress (auto-filling segments), Numbers, Vertical, Corner, Neon, Minimal, Pill, Outline, Retro, Glass and Dark looks for the arrows, dots and slider frame; mix any skin with any preset Text entrance animations — fade, fade up/down, slide from left/right or zoom, staggered across the sub heading, heading, text and button Device-specific settings — different slides-per-view, gap, height, arrows, dots and content visibility for tablet and mobile Slide or fade transitions, autoplay with a pause control Multiple slides per view (carousel) with adjustable gap Thumbnail navigation and Ken Burns zoom Overlay (solid or gradient), image fit, focus point and accent colour Performance No jQuery on the front end Conditional asset loading — nothing loads on pages without a slider Lazy-loaded images, with the first slide eager and high-priority for a better LCP Sliders initialise only when scrolled into view RTL ready Accessibility Full keyboard navigation and screen-reader labels Play/pause button for autoplay Respects the reduced-motion setting For developers Filters: general_slider_settings, general_slider_slides, general_slider_config, general_slider_html, general_slider_presets, general_slider_skins, general_slider_dynamic_query_args and general_slider_dynamic_slide Register your own design preset or navigation skin, or reshape a dynamic slider’s query and slides Demos & migration Demo Library — import ready-made sliders, images included, in one click Export any slider as a portable demo package (.zip) JSON import / export, plus global default settings for new sliders External services This plugin includes an optional Demo Library that loads ready-made sliders from a remote service hosted on GitHub Pages: devmonowar.github.io/wp-plugin-demo-library It connects to this service only when you: open the Demo Library screen — to download the list of demos and show their preview images; and click Import Demo — to download that demo’s data and images into your site’s Media Library. These are plain, read-only requests for files. No personal data is collected or sent, and no request is made unless you use the Demo Library. The service is provided by GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.) — terms of service — privacy statement.

WP Flow Plus Display attractive flow style carousel galleries with or without reflections. Each image links to either a Lightbox preview or to a URL. The Lightbox pop-up supports cycling through all the photos – left/right arrows appear when hovering over the photos. This is a light script that uses the basic JQuery library. It will display a simple thumbnail list if Javascript is disabled in the browser. Demo and Documentation Features CSS reflections Configure carousel image size Configure carousel aspect ratio Multiple galleries per page Configure the background color, text color, container width and choose black or white for the scrollbar. Auto-rotation of the images Configure the starting slide number Touch control of the scrollbar Optional link field in the image editor to link an image to a URL instead of the lightbox Option to open links in the same window or a new window Enable/disable automatic rotation for each instance of a gallery Supports full text description in the popup window of a gallery from the media library Display with or without reflections Gallery based on images from the Media Library or a simple folder of images Featured post support Shortcode generator NextGen gallery support Extended carousel animation styles Circular continuous carousel Configure the number of images on each side of the carousel Lightbox arrow options Slide-up captions Languages Italian translation courtest of Andrea Benedet Serbian translation courtesy of Ogi Djuraskovic Spanish translation courtesy of Ogi Djuraskovic Swedish translation courtesy of Kenneth Andersson