WordPress Sliders and carousels: selection criteria and comparison
Compare features, licenses and deployment needs.
Source description: “Responsive slider plugin to create sliders in visual editor easily. Build beautiful image slider, layer slider, video slider,…” Deployment: WordPress 5.0 / PHP 7.0. Listed version 3.5.1.39. 800,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Slider, gallery, carousel plugin for WordPress. Build your image slider, video slider, post slider, YouTube slider, or WooCommerce…” Deployment: WordPress 5.0 / PHP 7.0. Listed version 3.113.1. 500,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Create responsive Elementor sliders for hero sections, posts, products and more with powerful Elementor addons and ready-to-use Elementor…” Deployment: WordPress 6.8 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 4.7.2. 100,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Display WordPress posts in beautiful grid, list, slider, and filter layouts. Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, and Shortcodes.” Deployment: WordPress 4.5 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 7.9.7. 100,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Build Stunning Slider and Popup. Exit intent Popup, Image slider carousel, video slider carousel, post slider carousel, product…” Deployment: WordPress 5.9 / PHP 7.4.0. Listed version 4.8.2. 80,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Carousel, Slider, and Photo Gallery with Lightbox plugin. Create Image Carousel, Video Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid, Product…” Deployment: WordPress 5.0 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 4.0.1. 60,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Build SEO friendly sliders fast and easy with touch swipe navigation that works smoothly across all devices.” Deployment: WordPress 5.0 / PHP 5.4. Listed version 3.11.5. 60,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “41 free Divi 5 modules and Divi extensions: image carousel, logo carousel, accordion, tabs, modal popup, video popup,…” Deployment: WordPress 7.0 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 4.14.1. 50,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “A responsive modern carousel slider for the Gutenberg block editor that lets you add any blocks to your…” Deployment: WordPress 6.1 / PHP 7.0. Listed version 2.1.6. 50,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “A Customizable Testimonial plugin to Automate Collecting, Filtering, and Publishing Customer Reviews. Testimonial Slider, Grid & More to…” Deployment: WordPress 6.3 / PHP 7.4. Listed version 4.0.0. 40,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Create SEO friendly Image, Logo, Video, Post, WooCommerce Product Carousel, and Slider.” Deployment: WordPress 6.7 / PHP 7.0. Listed version 2.2.18. 30,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Source description: “Logo Slider: The best responsive plugin for Logo Showcase, Logo Carousel, and displaying clients' logos. Includes shortcode generator…” Deployment: WordPress 4.3 / PHP 5.6. Listed version 3.8.9. 30,000 active installations reported by WordPress.org.