Changelog

Changelog

What changed in each version. The full list is in the plugin’s readme on wordpress.org.

7.0.0

A rebuild of the editor and the front end. Sliders saved with 5.x and 6.x keep their settings and open without changes.

Editor

  • The editor canvas shows the slider styled as the page does; its arrows and dots page through the slides while you edit.
  • A Preview button runs the real slider, with its effect and autoplay, inside the editor.
  • The device switch follows the editor’s preview device.
  • Content position as a matrix in the toolbar; add slides from the Media Library or empty.
  • Transforms from the Gallery, Image and Cover blocks, and back to a Gallery.
  • Old content opens unchanged, without “Attempt recovery”: covered by 22 migration tests.

Front end and speed

  • An Interactivity API module instead of jQuery. Swiper 14 loads when a slider comes near the screen, with only the modules that slider uses.
  • The layout is rendered on the server before any script runs: no layout shift.
  • The first slide image loads with high priority, the rest lazily, with responsive sizes.
  • Mobile Lighthouse on the same pages: performance 66–88 → 95–99, largest contentful paint about 3.9 s → 2.1–3.2 s, layout shift 0.52 → 0.
  • Parallax with CSS instead of a library; autoplay and parallax respect “reduce motion”.

Free plugin

  • Video slides, color and gradient overlays, shape dividers (15 shapes, color, flip), the 11 arrow styles, space between slides and up to eight slides per view.
  • Content position for all slides at once and automatic captions from the Media Library.
  • A lightbox built on the browser’s <dialog> element, opening out of the clicked image, with a counter, swipe, keys and a light or dark look. It replaces lightGallery.

Pro

  • Six shaped effects: morph, parallax, tilt, fan, stack and reveal.
  • Twenty WebGL transitions, from liquid and ripple to pixelate and glitch; a crossfade with reduced motion.
  • Animated dots: a pill that slides along, and lines that fill up over the autoplay time.
  • Lightbox options: thumbnails, zoom, captions, a fade opening and your own colors.
  • A lapsed license never breaks a slider: everything saved with Pro keeps rendering.

Updating from 6.x? Read Migrating from 6.x to 7.0.

6.1.2

The last 6.x release. See the development log on wordpress.org for 6.x and earlier.