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a3 Responsive Slider

A robust and versatile responsive image slider for WordPress.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version2.3.6
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 6.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update8 Jul 20263mo ago
Active installations200Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating2.6 / 5 from 8 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records a3 Responsive Slider version 2.3.6 as active, updated 3mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

There are hundreds of image sliders for WordPress. We know because we have used a lot and none have ever completely been what we wanted. We built our own because we wanted a versatile and robust responsive slider that we could use in our client website work and more importantly that our clients could easily use on their site.

a3 Responsive Slider is inspired by and powered by the malsup Cycle2 JavaScript.

FEATURES

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Fully mobile responsive.

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Touch Swipe support in mobiles.

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Images of any size – scaled to show perfectly no matter what size is uploaded.

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WordPress taxonomy. Manage Sliders (like posts). Folders (like categories)

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Fully Customize the Slider Skins Sass #dynamic {stylesheets}. No coding required.

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Add sliders by Widget.

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Embed sliders by shortcode button on every post, custom post type, pages.

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Slider Shortcode alignment (just like WordPress images)

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Slider Shortcode Dimension settings (Over-Ride Skin Dimension setting)

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Shortcode tracking. See at a glance where each slider is embed by shortcode.

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Remove sliders embedded by shortcode from the Slider Embed tab (removes the shortcode)

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Slider images uploaded to WordPress Media Library.

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There are 8 different image transition effects.

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Transition effects set on each slider.

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Extensively tested on live client sites before release

LAZY LOAD

Install the a3 Lazy Load plugin to apply Lazy Load to your sliders first load. a3 Lazy Load will allow you to apply Lazy Load to any or all elements of your site for PCs and Mobiles including your a3 Responsive Sliders embedded by shortcode or added by widgets.

IMAGE TRANSITIONS

Up to 8 different image effects. In addition to the normal Scroll horizontal and Vertical image transition the plugin includes the transition effects.

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Flip – see demo

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Shuffle – see demo

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Tile Slide and Blind – see demo

PREMIUM VERSION

This plugin has an advanced a3 Responsive Slider Premium Version. The Premium version advanced features include:

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Youtube Slider feature

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Ken Burns Transition effect

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4 Additional Slider Skins

  • Touch Mobile Skin

CONTRIBUTE

When you download a3 Responsive Slider, you join our the a3rev Software community. Regardless of if you are a WordPress beginner or experienced developer if you are interested in contributing to the future development of this plugin head over to the a3 Responsive Slider GitHub Repository to find out how you can contribute.

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Usage

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Install and activate the plugin

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Go to a3 Responsive Slider menu on your wp-admin dashboard.

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Go to Slider Skins and create your own slider skin style.

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Add New Slider – create your first slider

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Go to Widgets – find a3 responsive slider widget and apply.

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Use the Sliders button on post and page text editor to add slider by shortcode.

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Enjoy.

Upgrade Notification

2.3.5

This maintenance release improves slider reliability and compatibility with the latest WordPress versions

2.3.4

0

2.3.3

This maintenance release fixes a bug that appears in PHP 8+ when allow_url_fopen is off. 1

2.3.2

6

2.3.1

1

2.3.0

This feature release removes the fontawesome lib and replaces icons with SVGs plus adds Default Topography option to font controls.

2.2.2

This maintenance release has 1 bug fix

2.2.1

0

2.2.0

This release has a security patch for a Stored XSS zero-day vulnerability in all previous versions.

2.1.0

0 plus includes various tweaks to harden the plugins security

2.0.13

9

2.0.12

x

2.0.11

8 compatibility plus Security hardening.

2.0.9

This small maintenance release contains a security patch

2.0.8

7

2.0.7

  • This maintenance release is for compatibility with WordPress 5.7

2.0.6

6

2.0.5

4

2.0.4

1.

2.0.3

This maintenance release is a tweak to the mobile template.

2.0.2

This maintenance release adds Travis Unit build tests and compatibility with PHP Code Checker

2.0.1

4

2.0.0

2

1.9.0

This feature release has a lot. 1

1.8.9

This maintenance upgrade is to fix a style conflict with fontawesome icons

1.8.8

3

1.8.7

This maintenance update adds support for ALT text on images.

1.8.6

2 release

1.8.5

3. It also includes performance updates to the plugin framework.

1.8.4

8

1.8.3

Maintenance Update. 6 and the new GDPR compliance requirements for users in the EU

1.8.2

Maintenance Update. 4

1.8.1

Maintenance Update. 0 this release includes 1 bug fixe from that upgrade plus numerous style and script tweaks

1.8.0

Feature Upgrade. 9 compatibility

1.7.0

Feature Upgrade. 0 and launch of the plugins source code on public Github repo

1.6.0

Feature Upgraded. 1

1.5.0

Feature Upgrade. 5

1.4.0

Feature Upgrade. 4

1.3.0

Feature Upgrade. 1

1.2.0

Major Maintenance Upgrade. 0

1.1.10

Maintenance Upgrade. 9 on some servers

1.1.9

Important Maintenance Upgrade. 2 x major a3rev Plugin Framework Security Hardening Tweaks plus 1 https bug fix

1.1.8

Maintenance Upgrade. 2 Code Tweaks for improved loading and display of Slider Skin Controls and Pager.

1.1.7

Maintenance Upgrade. 2

1.1.6

Maintenance upgrade! 0

1.1.5

Upgrade now for 3 code tweaks which could be important depending on your site configuration.

1.1.4

Upgrade now for 1 new feature, 8 Code and UI Tweaks plus 2 bug fixes.

1.1.3

Upgrade your plugin now for tweaks that greatly improved slider first load UI, plus full compatibility with a3 Lazy Load and 2 bug fixes.

1.1.2

1

1.1.1

Upgrade now for an image insert tweak.

1.1.0

Major Version upgrade. Upgrade now for full front end conversion to Sass #dynamic {stylesheets} and admin panel to Sass.

1.0.0.4

0

1.0.0.3

Update your plugin now for mobile detect class name conflict bug fix

1.0.0.2

Update now for 2 important framework code tweaks to keep you plugin in tip top running order.

1.0.0.1

1 with some a3rev Plugin Framework code tweaks.

1.0.0

First release

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • image gallery
  • responsive image slider
  • responsive slider
  • wordpress image slider
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity8 Jul 20263mo ago

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