Description
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Smart Slider 3 is the most powerful and intuitive WordPress plugin to create sliders which was never possible before. Fully responsive, SEO optimized and works with any WordPress theme. Create beautiful sliders and tell stories without any code.
Live slide editor
A beautiful interface makes creating slides fast and efficient. The complete freedom to build what you want, the way you want. Edit your slides as you used to in page builders. Drop layers after each other and structure them with rows and columns.
Unique Layouts with Layers
Enhance your slider with the layers and make your site even more unique and grandiose. Every heading, text, image, button and video can be edited easily with the customization options. Change all the details that really matter in typography and style.
Responsive, Mobile-Ready Sliders
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Installation
Check our official documentation for more information
Automatic installation
- Search for Smart Slider 3 through ‘Plugins > Add New’ interface.
- Find the plugin box of Smart Slider 3 and click on the ‘Install Now’ button.
- Then activate the Smart Slider 3 plugin.
- Create a new slider: Click on the ‘Smart Slider’ menu, click on the create slider button. Then you can add images and videos as slide and you can customize your slides with layers.
- Then copy the shortcode from the Publish slider box and paste it into a post or a page.
Manual installation
- Download Smart Slider 3
- Upload the Smart Slider 3 through ‘Plugins > Add New > Upload’ interface or upload smart-slider-3 folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
- Activate the Smart Slider 3 plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Create a new slider: Click on the ‘Smart Slider’ menu, click on the create slider button. Then you can add images and videos as slide and you can customize your slides with layers.
- Then copy the shortcode from the Publish slider box and paste it into a post or a page.
wp plugin install smart-slider-3 --activateFrequently Asked Questions
You can add your slider by shortcode or via the widget control panel or PHP shortcode. Watch the 🎥 Publishing tutorial video to learn more about the topic.
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Changelog
3.5.1.29 – 22. July 2025
- Feature: webGL background animation image smoothing can be turned off using custom js codes.
- Fix: Vulnerability fix.
- Fix: Empty lines at Posts by IDs generator will be filtered out.
- Fix: PHP 8.2+ compatibility fixes.
- Fix: Vimeo layer, YouTube layer videos couldn’t be started in some cases.
3.5.1.28 – 19. May 2025
- Feature: Accessibility improvements on bullets.
- Fix: Filtering out unnecessary data from WordPress post generators.
- Fix: Numpad enter triggers clicking actions too.
- Fix: Thumbnail images will use their settings given size in their width and height html attributes.
- Fix: On dynamic slides, the Youtube layer’s Cover image field turned its variable into the value.
3.5.1.27 – 20. February 2025
- Feature: The latest background animation limitations are hardcoded now, to avoid wrong usa... [truncated]