General Slider
General Slider is a fast, modern slider for WordPress. Create a slider once, then place it on any page with the block or a shortcode. No page builder and no coding required.
Built on the lightweight Splide engine — no jQuery on the front end, accessible by default, and assets only load on pages that actually show a slider.
Use it as a hero slider, image carousel, testimonial slider, logo carousel, content slideshow or fullscreen banner. Works in the block editor, with a shortcode, and as an Elementor widget — on any block theme or classic theme.
Features
- Reusable sliders — build once, use anywhere
- Gutenberg block, shortcode and Elementor widget
- Five design presets — Hero, Split, Minimal, Testimonial, Fullscreen
- One-click demo slider so you can see how it works straight away
- Per-slide image or background video (self-hosted MP4/WebM, YouTube or Vimeo), sub heading, heading, text, button and a whole-slide link
- Multiple slides per view (carousel) with adjustable gap
- Thumbnail navigation
- Ken Burns zoom and text entrance animations
- Per-slider settings: autoplay (+ speed and pause button), loop, arrows, dots, slide/fade transition, height, overlay (solid or gradient), image fit, image focus and accent colour
- Custom CSS, categories, duplicate and JSON import / export
- Global default settings for new sliders
- Responsive, accessible (keyboard + screen reader, pause control), respects reduced-motion
- Performance friendly: no jQuery on the front end, lazy-loaded images (eager + high-priority first slide), conditional asset loading, RTL ready
External services
This plugin includes an optional Demo Library that loads ready-made sliders from a remote service hosted on GitHub Pages: https://devmonowar.github.io/wp-plugin-demo-library/
It connects to this service only when you:
- open the Demo Library screen — to download the list of demos and show their preview images; and
- click Import Demo — to download that demo’s data and images into your site’s Media Library.
These are plain, read-only requests for files. No personal data is collected or sent, and no request is made unless you use the Demo Library. The service is provided by GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.) — terms of service: https://docs.github.com/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service — privacy statement: https://docs.github.com/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement