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Tutorials and release notes
How-tos for Gutenslider: building sliders, captions, arrows, parallax and links to single slides.
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Free Slider Revolution alternatives for the block editor
Slider Revolution has no free version and its own editor. Free alternatives compared: slider blocks for heroes and content sliders, layer editors for animations, and how to switch cleanly.
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Gutenslider vs MetaSlider: image slideshow or slides with content
MetaSlider is a light image slider; Gutenslider is a slider block whose slides hold any blocks. Features, jQuery, speed tests and price compared, and when each is the better pick.
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Gutenslider vs Smart Slider 3: a slider block or a slider builder?
Smart Slider 3 builds sliders in its own layer editor, Gutenslider builds them from blocks in the page. Features, video, lightbox, speed and price compared, and when we’d pick Smart…
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The best slider blocks for the WordPress block editor (2026)
Gutenslider, Spectra, Otter, Stackable, Kadence, Getwid and Essential Blocks compared: which slider blocks let slides hold any blocks, what is free, what they load, and when a classic slider plugin…
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Fullscreen background slider with text on top
Build a fullscreen hero slider in WordPress: photos or video that fill the screen, a headline and button that stay in place, readable text and a fast first screen. Free,…
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Full-screen video background slider
Add a muted, looping video background behind your headline: from the Media Library or a YouTube link, with a poster image, an overlay, and tips for the file size and…
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Slider animations: slide, fade, 3D and WebGL transitions
Slider animations compared: slide, fade and flip (free), 3D, shaped and WebGL transitions (Pro), which to use when, the transition speed and reduced motion.
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Multiple slides per view: a carousel with 3, 2 and 1 slides
Show several slides side by side: slides in view per device, slides per step, the gap, a centered active slide and slides with their own width. Free, with a live…
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Adaptive height slider: grow with each slide, or a fixed height
Let the slider take the height of each slide, per device, or set a fixed minimum height in px, vh or em. Which to use when, and tips for arrows,…
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Adding links to slides
Three ways to link from a slider: make a whole slide clickable, add buttons on a slide, or give every slide its own address that other pages can link to.
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Slide duration, autoplay and transition speed
Autoplay, pause on hover and loop, how long each slide stays and how fast it changes, with values that work for heroes, testimonials, carousels and logo strips.
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Changing the slide order, or a random order
Move a slide with its toolbar, drag it in the List View, choose the order when you add images, shuffle the slides on every visit, or hide a slide without…
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Gutenslider 7: 26 new effects, video from any link, a new lightbox
Everything new in Gutenslider 7, free and Pro: a new editor, a front end without jQuery, 26 new effects, video slides from any link, a new lightbox, content width and…