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 you can easily do that from a developer perspective. From a user perspective, you can always copy and paste the block with your favorite settings …
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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 you can use javascript to customize your Gutenslider even further by executing functions on the underlying swiper instance. For this example we are building a …
Some user requests reached us asking if it was possible to directly link to certain slides in their sliders. With Gutenslider 5.5.2 and onwards this is now possible, as we enabled the Hash Navigation Module of swiper in Gutenslider Free and Pro. Read here all that you need to know, but first see it in …
In this post you will learn how to add custom arrows to your Gutenslider. You can then use the arrows in all your sliders on the same page. You will learn: How to format your svg arrow files to seamlessly integrate with the backend How to write a WordPress filter to add your arrow to …
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 reason is WordPress, that generates thumbnail images and serves too low quality images depending on the theme you use. Here, you learn how to fix …
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 allows you to create complex layouts with all the Gutenberg blocks you like and want to use. So you can add the `columns` block e.g. …
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 adapted the new InnerBlock navigation toolbar you can also see in the core Buttons block for example. See this video on how to navigate in …
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 “edit” mode by clicking the pen icon. Then on the block settings of the slide you want to change you can pick from 5 options …
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 as shown in the video. That easily lets you create all text only slides very quickly. Live example of text only slides with no background …
In our support forum at WordPress, a feature request from one of our users reached us 3 days ago. The user asks if it was possible to add automatic captions to the slides in Gutenslider. Every Media Upload can have a Title, a Caption and a Description in WordPress, so why not use these? We …
