Build responsive image, post, product, and video sliders that grab attention – directly in the block editor or anywhere with a shortcode, no coding required.
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Why bSlider?
Static pages scroll past – sliders make visitors stop and look. bSlider lets you build engaging sliders without coding: choose from four source types (Image, Posts, WooCommerce, Video) and four layout types (Slider, Carousel, Grid, Thumbnails), pick smooth transitions like fade, slide, or flip, and customize titles, buttons, indicators, and arrows to match your theme.
Add slides quickly, duplicate or remove them for faster editing, and adjust settings per device for fully responsive layouts. bSlider works with any standard WordPress theme – place a slider with the Gutenberg block, or drop the shortcode anywhere on your site, even outside the block editor.
Use it for product showcases, portfolios, testimonials, or hero sections – wherever your content deserves the spotlight.
Free Features
- Gutenberg Block: Add sliders directly in the block editor with full customization.
- Shortcode Support: Insert sliders anywhere on your site, even outside Gutenberg.
- Unlimited Slides: Create as many slides as you need for products, portfolios, or content highlights.
- Easy Slide Management: Quickly duplicate or remove slides for faster editing and organization.
- Four Layouts: Slider, looping Carousel (horizontal or vertical), responsive Grid with adjustable gaps, and Thumbnails navigation.
- Post Slider: Query posts by category or tag, show excerpts, limit content length, set posts per page, sort (Order By, ASC/DESC), and skip posts with an offset.
- WooCommerce Slider: Highlight products with content length and excerpt display controls.
- Video Slider: Popup playback with repeat, mute, autoplay, reset, or hidden controls, plus a large play button and restart option.
- Comprehensive Player Controls: Play/Pause, Mute, Rewind/Fast-Forward, and real-time Progress, Current Time, and Duration displays.
- Slide Animations: Smooth fade, slide, or flip transitions to catch attention.
- Autoplay Controls: Turn autoplay on or off, set custom duration, adjust timing per slide, and pause on hover.
- Navigation & Arrows: Left/right arrows with customizable size, height, width, border, radius, and color.
- Dynamic Indicators: Multiple indicator styles with custom positioning and direction (horizontal or vertical).
- Custom Slider Height: Define the perfect height for your sliders.
- Content Styling: Flexible typography and design controls for titles and descriptions, plus content positioning and overlay colors for better contrast.
- Grid Pagination: Set items per page and choose Standard Button or Load More pagination.
Pro Version
bSlider Pro gives you more design power and control – advanced effects, flexible layouts, and interactive options for professional sliders.
Pro features include:
- Advanced carousel styles – unique carousels with ticker, grid, and 3D effects.
- Slider transition effects – professional animations for seamless slide changes.
- Interactive navigation – slide on mouse wheel, slide on mouse drag, arrow follows mouse, and grab cursor interaction.
- Custom arrow styles and pagination position control for grid layouts.
- Clickable CTA buttons – custom button labels and URLs on slides, with optional new-tab behavior.
- Include/exclude posts & products – hand-pick exactly which items appear, and exclude the current post from the feed.
- Advanced video tools – Mute, Picture-in-Picture, AirPlay, Download, Fullscreen, auto-hide controls, and video reset on end.
- Lazy load – defer offscreen images for better performance.
- Thumbnail controls – direction, dedicated navigation arrows, position, dimensions, borders, and color overlays.
- Design controls – custom HTML wrapper tags (h1-h6) for SEO, box model (margin, padding, border, radius), advanced typography, hover color states, animation timing, dual slide direction, left/right inner gap, and move-from-edge spacing.
Upgrade to Pro to unlock all premium features.
How to Use bSlider – Quick Start
- Go to Plugins → Add New.
- Search for bSlider.
- Click Install Now, then Activate.
- In the block editor, add the bSlider block, choose a slider type and layout, configure settings, and publish.
- Or insert the provided shortcode anywhere to show your slider.
Live Demo | Try the Pro Version
Use Cases
- Hero sections: Welcome visitors with full-width image sliders and animated titles.
- Product showcases: Put WooCommerce products in carousels, grids, or ticker layouts.
- Portfolios & galleries: Present work samples with thumbnail navigation and fade effects.
- Blog highlights: Auto-populate post sliders by category or tag to surface your best content.
- Video showcases: Display video collections with popup playback and full player controls.
User Feedback
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Super easy to use, and responsive support
❛❛Been very happy with our pro purchase. Did have a few issues, but the developer is very responsive and supports this plugin well.!❜❜
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just what I needed
❛❛Even better than some premium blocks!❜❜
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ easy-to-use page image + dynamic text configuration plug-in
❛❛Hello:
Gutenberg’s simple and easy-to-use page image + dynamic text configuration plug-in look terrific!
Thank you!❜❜
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excelente plugin
❛❛Very easy to use!❜❜
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Source Code
You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository: BSlider on GitHub
Third-Party Libraries
This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries.
Bootstrap
- Source: https://getbootstrap.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap
- License: MIT – https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/LICENSE
- Purpose: Provides responsive carousel/slider functionality, grid layout, and UI components used in the slider interface.
Plyr
- Source: https://plyr.io/
- GitHub: https://github.com/sampotts/plyr
- License: MIT – https://github.com/sampotts/plyr/blob/master/LICENSE.md
- Purpose: A simple, accessible HTML5 media player used for video slide playback with customizable controls.
LazyLoad
- Source: https://github.com/verlok/vanilla-lazyload
- GitHub: https://github.com/verlok/vanilla-lazyload
- License: MIT – https://github.com/verlok/vanilla-lazyload/blob/master/LICENSE
- Purpose: Enables lazy loading of slide images to improve page performance by deferring off-screen image loading.
Font Awesome
- Source: https://fontawesome.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
- License: SIL OFL 1.1 (Fonts), MIT (CSS) – https://fontawesome.com/license/free
- Purpose: Provides scalable vector icons used for slider navigation arrows and UI elements.
bpl-tools
- Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
- Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls.
- External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made
Freemius Lite SDK
- Source: https://bplugins.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/freemius-lite-sdk
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
- Purpose: Provides an opt-in consent form for usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin. No data is sent before explicit user consent.
- External Services: Communicates with
api.bplugins.com(activation events) andwp.freemius.com(opt-in processing) only after user opt-in. See bPlugins Privacy Policy and Freemius Privacy Policy.
External Link (Placeholder Image)
- Source: https://bblockswp.com/wp-content/demo/img/green-hill.jpg
- Source: https://templates.bplugins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/n-39.jpg
- Source: https://templates.bplugins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/n-37.jpg
- Purpose: This image is hosted on our own server and is strictly used as a fallback/dummy placeholder in the editor preview when a user has not yet selected or uploaded their own image content. It is not loaded on the frontend for site visitors.