5 Best Sliders for WordPress Themes

1. Speed

Usually basic WP sliders are too slow. If it is not well coded, a WP slider can significantly increase the load time of your pages. Adding to this factor the bad hosting service, you will get the site that will load very slowly and will probably won’t attract more visitors to your online project.

2. Ease of Wordpress installation servive

Another root of all bad Wordpress sliders is ease of use. Most of the sliders are overloaded with different options and come with a massive documentation that is hard to be identified by beginners.

3. Great responsive and adaptive features

You should make sure that your WP slider is highly adaptive. Unfortunately, most of the sliders are not well responsive and crush after upgrading the platform of your site. Choose the most responsive WP sliders if you don’t want to have any problems with updating your blogs. These three major factors make WP sliders the best ones for any online project. Let us introduce you 5 great responsive WP sliders with premium features that will do for any template and any project.

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1. Revolution Slider

Revolution Slider stands for an all-purpose slide for the advanced displaying solution for showing almost any content type with customizable, effects of transitions, multiple image-sizing effects and custom animations. Revolution Slider has the visual oriented interface and multiple options. It is good for newcomers and professionals. The main features of Revolution Slider include:

• Varied highly customizable transitions
• Drag & drop captions with animated builders (with convenient wysiwyg (”what you see is what you get”) slide editor)
• Pulled slider content from Wordpress Posts and Custom Posts
• Create templates that determine how the title, date will be displayed in form of captions
• Multilanguage WPML support - translate slides into different languages simultaneously.

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2. Master Slider

Master Slider stands for a premium content and image slider. This slider is a truly responsive and device friendly slider that will look and work smoothly on all mobile and PC devices. Master Slider will do greatly for those who need responsive sliders for ecommerce sites. The main features of Master Slider include:

• super smooth hardware accelerated transitions;
• touch navigation with swipe gesture;
• ability to add any html contents in layers;
• support of 25+ ready to use templates;
• variety of effects and video support.

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3. Layerslider

Layerslider is another premium multi-purpose slider. It will suit for everyone who needs a great Wp slider that allowing creating content sliders, image galleries and diverse slideshows with must-see effects. The major features of Layerslider:

• the smoothest slider experience on Wordpress platform;
• 200 preset 2D and 3D slide transitions;
• easy-to-use admin interface;
• drag n’drop WYSIWYG slider builder;
• real-time previews;
• Google Fonts;
• timeline views;
• transition builder for custom animations.

This is a device friendly slider with a supporting responsive mode and multiple layouts. It support pure touch gestures on mobile devices.

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4. RoyalSlider

RoyalSlider is one of the most popular Wordpress sliders. Select five random premium WP themes and you will definitely find that at least one of them has built-in slider content via RoyalSlider. The basic features of RoyalSlider:

• It has an adaptive gallery;
• Support of the touch navigation;
• Great optimization for mobile devices;
• Creation of slideshows with CSS3, videos, images, etc.;
• Fill slides with data from 500px, Instagram, Flickr;
• Can be combined with a photo gallery;
• Supports videos from Vimeo and YouTube.

RoyalSlider will work smoothly touch screen, mobile and desktop devices. Add CSS3 animations with hardware acceleration by means of RoyalSlider.

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5. Flexslider

This is the excellent adaptive jQuery slider. Flexslider includes the ability to navigate bullet (points), allows using miniatures, together with navigation, the ability to insert video as a slide carousel option, as well as plug-in has a small API. The features of Flexslider:

• Display of control arrows;
• Rewind through the pagination options of the slider;
• Support of DOM-tree using Firebug;
• Multilanguage support;
• Support of Woocommerce plugins.

Remember that there are more than 5 best Wordpress sliders for your sites and blogs. But if you are a newcomer you should definitely start from any of these premium WP slider.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][/vc_row]