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Tutorials and release notes

How-tos for Gutenslider: building sliders, captions, arrows, parallax and links to single slides.

  • Tutorial: your first slider with Gutenslider

    Add the slider block, choose images, pick fixed or changing content and a transition, and adjust the basic settings. The complete first walk-through.

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  • Gutenslider 7.0: a new editor, a faster front end, more for free

    Gutenslider 7.0 rebuilds the editor and the front end: a live preview, no jQuery, no layout shift, the lightbox and video slides in the free plugin, and new shaped and…

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  • Setting Slider Defaults with PHP WordPress filters (Pro)

    The situation might occur when you are building a website for a customer or yourself and you want to change the default settings of Gutenslider. This short post explains how…

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  • Gutenslider Custom Javascript scripting

    On custom websites with complex designs, there might be the need for more options than Gutenslider has to offer out of the box. In this post we show you, how…

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  • Arrows Follow Mouse WordPress Slider (Pro)

    With the latest upgrade to version 5.9 of the best media slider for WordPress that is fully integrated into the Gutenberg block editor – you can now use an animation…

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  • Link to a single slide with hash navigation

    Turn on hash navigation and every slide gets its own URL: share a link that opens the slider on slide three, or jump to a slide from a button.

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  • Custom SVG arrows for your sliders

    Prepare an SVG, register it with the gutenslider_arrows filter and pick it in the block settings. A Pro feature, step by step.

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  • Gutenslider x lightGallery

    We are very happy to announce a collaboration with lightGallery, which is not only one plugin for image popups but THE number one plugin when it comes to user ratings…

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  • Full Quality Images with Gutenslider

    We are receiving many user requests, notifying us about the blurry image quality on full size sliders and how to fix it. This is not a Gutenslider issue but the…

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  • Gutenslider supports webp images

    Have you already heard of the new standard for web images from Google? webp is promising to produce much smaller file sizes, which means faster loading times and better SEO…

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  • WordPress Slide Text next to Image

    A user on the WordPress support forum asked if it was possible to place the text on the side next to the image. The answer is: yes it is. Gutenslider…

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  • Changing the slide order

    With Gutenberg being quite young, the user interface is a frequent subject to change as well. We will not always go with all UI changes but in Gutenslider 5.0 we…

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