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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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    Link to a single slide with hash navigation

    Turn on “Link to each slide” and every slide gets its own address: name it, share a link that opens the slider on that slide, or jump to a slide…

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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, 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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  • Row of colorful townhouses

    Custom CSS recipes for Gutenslider

    Scoped CSS for common requests: dim the neighbouring slides, round the corners, style captions and set a default divider color.

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  • Gutenslider Progress Styles

    Gutenslider Pro allows you to change the style of the progress bar and choose from 4 different settings.bullets, dynamic bullets, fraction, and progress bar as well as set the position.…

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  • Gutenslider 5.0 out now!

    We are very happy to announce a big update for Gutenslider. We worked on it for almost half a year now and it will bring lots of improvements for you…

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  • woman standing beside wall

    Adding Background Overlays

    You have to go to the Block settings of the individual slides which you can either reach from the block outline from the top toolbar, or by changing Gutenslider to…

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    Adding Text only Slides

    In this video we show you how to add slides without background images or background videos (pro). You can just set the background of any slide you want to transparent…

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  • Looking up between glass towers

    Arrow styles, positions and arrows that follow the mouse

    The arrow options of Gutenslider: eleven styles, size and colors in the free version; positions, offsets, blend modes and mouse-following arrows in Pro.

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  • Woman in warm hallway light

    Automatic captions from the Media Library

    Show each image’s title, caption or description on its slide, without typing it again, and how to place and style the caption.

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