SlideCraft – Responsive Slider & Carousel

SlideCraft builds sliders and carousels that look good, load fast and work for everyone. Make a slider once and place it anywhere with the SlideCraft Slider block, the [slidecraft] shortcode or a PHP function.

SlideCraft is the new version of WP Smart Flexslider. Your existing sliders are moved over automatically and your old shortcodes keep working.

Slider types and effects

• Slider, carousel (several slides per view, rows, centred mode, free scrolling), gallery with thumbnails, and continuous ticker.
• Slide, fade, coverflow, cube, flip, cards and creative transitions.
• Horizontal or vertical, loop, random order, autoplay with a progress bar, keyboard, mousewheel and touch.

Slides and layers

• Image, video (YouTube, Vimeo or MP4), content, testimonial, logo and dynamic posts slides.
• Image, colour, gradient or video backgrounds with a focal point, Ken Burns zoom and a colour overlay.
• Heading, text, button, image and countdown layers on a nine-point grid, with per-device visibility and entrance animations.
• Dynamic slides from posts, pages, custom post types or WooCommerce products, filtered by category, tag, featured or sticky.

Visual builder

• A slider library with search, duplicate, export and import.
• A live preview that uses your real site: click a layer to edit it, drag it to move it, and check desktop, tablet and mobile.
• Drag-and-drop slides and layers, autosave, undo/redo and saved versions you can restore.

Design

• 12 starter templates: Hero Fade, Split Hero, Promo Countdown, Fullscreen Video, Blog Carousel, Product Showcase, Coverflow Portfolio, Cards Stack, Testimonials, Logo Ticker, News Ticker and Gallery + Thumbnails.
• Height by aspect ratio, fixed pixels, viewport height or the first image.
• Six arrow styles, bullets, fraction, progress bar or thumbnails.
• Separate tablet and mobile settings for slides per view, gap, height, text size and arrows.

Fast and accessible

• About 32 KB of JavaScript (gzipped). Effects load only where they are used, and nothing loads on pages without a slider.
• Space is reserved before images load, so the page doesn’t jump. The first image loads with high priority and the rest lazy-load with responsive sizes.
• Accessible carousel markup, a pause button whenever autoplay is on, pause on focus, keyboard support and reduced-motion support.
• YouTube (no-cookie) and Vimeo (do not track) videos load only when their slide is shown.