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

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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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    Arrow styles, positions and arrows that follow the mouse

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

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    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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    Adding a parallax slider to a page

    Turn on parallax for a slider, pick the direction and amount, combine it with 3D effects, and two setups that work well: a photo portfolio and a holiday rental.

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  • Adding Captions to your slides

    A solid image slider often needs captions to go along the displayed media. To describe a purpose or just give some more information about a photo that is being displayed.…

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  • Changing the Focal Point

    With Gutenslider it is very intuitive and easy to change the focal point of your slides. That way you can increase users attraction to your slides by putting focus on…

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  • Gutenslider + Unsplash

    With Gutenslider and the official Unsplash plugin (free in the WordPress plugin repository) you can now create awesome image sliders with the huge unsplash photography archive very fast. While selecting…

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  • Adaptive Height

    We are very happy to announce one of the features many of our users requested in the wordpress support forums. An ability to automatically size the slider depending on the…

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  • Fixed height slider (px) – Version 2.6.2

    We are happy to inform you about the recent update of Gutenslider. One of our users reported the issue, that he wanted to set his sliders to a fixed height…

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    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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