Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce – Amitry
Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce – Amitry is a fast, responsive WooCommerce slider plugin for products and product categories. Create a product slider, product carousel or category carousel in minutes with the Gutenberg block, the Elementor widget or the [amitry_slider] shortcode.
Use it to highlight featured products, show new arrivals, promote sale products, display best sellers or guide shoppers into your WooCommerce product categories. The slider is lightweight, mobile-friendly and built to load only on pages where it is actually used.
Why choose this WooCommerce slider?
- Product slider and category slider in one plugin – showcase WooCommerce products or product categories.
- No code required – add sliders with a Gutenberg block, Elementor widget or shortcode.
- Responsive by default – set separate columns for desktop, tablet and mobile.
- Lightweight and fast – CSS and JavaScript load only when a slider is rendered.
- SEO-friendly output – server-side rendered HTML keeps slider content visible without JavaScript.
- Flexible styling – adjust card style, image shape, spacing, radius, shadows, colors and hover effects.
- Theme-friendly – works with classic themes and modern block themes.
- Translation-ready – includes a
.potfile for localization.
Add sliders your way
- Gutenberg block – insert the Amitry Slider block into any page or post and preview changes live in the editor.
- Elementor widget – use the dedicated Amitry Slider widget when Elementor is active.
- Shortcode – place
[amitry_slider]anywhere shortcodes are supported.
Popular use cases
- Homepage product slider – feature selected WooCommerce products on your homepage.
- New arrivals carousel – automatically show your newest products.
- Best sellers slider – highlight popular products from your store.
- Sale products slider – promote discounted products and deals.
- Featured products showcase – display a hand-picked product selection.
- Product category carousel – help shoppers browse your store by category.
- Related products slider – keep visitors shopping on single product pages.
- Landing page carousel – add a focused product carousel to campaigns and sales pages.
Product slider features
Choose which WooCommerce products to show:
- Newest products
- Best selling products
- On-sale products
- Featured products
- Top rated products
- Manually selected products
- Products from a selected category
Control what appears on each product card:
- Product image
- Product title
- Price with sale strike-through
- Sale badge
- Rating stars
- Short description
- Stock status
- Add-to-cart button
Category slider features
Create a WooCommerce category carousel with:
- All product categories or selected categories
- Optional category exclude list
- Sorting by name, product count or menu order
- Option to hide empty categories
- Fallback to the first product image when a category has no thumbnail
- Optional product count per category
Layout and design options
- Two free card styles: Clean Card and Minimal
- Rounded, square or circle image shapes
- Adjustable columns per device
- Adjustable gaps, card padding, border radius and shadow
- Hover effects: lift, zoom, lift + zoom and shine
- Navigation arrows, dots, scrollbar, progress bar and slide counter
- Keyboard control
- Autoplay with delay, loop and pause-on-hover options
Block editor integration
The Gutenberg block includes a clean two-panel sidebar:
- Settings – choose the slider type, product source, layout, behavior and navigation.
- Styles – customize card style, colors, shadows, image shape and hover effects.
The block uses server-side rendering, so the editor preview closely matches the frontend output.
Shortcode examples
[amitry_slider type="products" filter="newest" count="12"]
[amitry_slider type="products" filter="sale" slides_desktop="4"]
[amitry_slider type="products" filter="featured" count="8"]
[amitry_slider type="categories" sort="count"]
All block options are also available as shortcode attributes.
Performance and accessibility
Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce – Amitry is built to stay lightweight:
- CSS and JavaScript load only on pages where a slider is rendered.
- Swiper is bundled locally, so no external CDN request is needed.
- Optional query caching can reduce repeated product and category queries.
- The slider respects the system
prefers-reduced-motionsetting. - When reduced motion is enabled, autoplay is disabled, slide transitions are instant and hover motion is removed.
WooCommerce compatibility
- Requires WooCommerce.
- Compatible with HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage).
- Compatible with WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks.
- Works with classic themes and block themes.
- Works with the latest supported WordPress and WooCommerce versions.
Free plugin and Pro add-on
The free plugin works fully on its own and includes the core product slider, category slider, Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, shortcode, responsive controls and styling options.
A separate Pro add-on extends the free plugin through documented hooks and adds advanced shop features, including:
- Premium designs: Overlay, Circle, 3D Carousel and Masonry
- Hover image swap
- Automatic New and Bestseller badges
- AJAX add to cart
- Quick View popup
- Sale countdown timer
- Wishlist with a dedicated wishlist page
- Stock progress bar
- Low-stock label