Smart Slider 3
Smart Slider 3 is a powerful and intuitive WordPress plugin that allows users to create sliders with ease. It is fully responsive, SEO optimized, and works with any WordPress theme. With Smart Slider 3, users can create beautiful sliders and tell stories without the need for any code.
Live slide editor
The plugin features a user-friendly interface that makes creating slides fast and efficient. Users have complete freedom to build customized slides by dragging and dropping layers. The slide editor is similar to popular page builders, allowing users to add layers, structure them with rows and columns, and easily customize their design.
Unique Layouts with Layers
Smart Slider 3 offers a wide range of customizable layers that can enhance sliders and make websites more unique and visually appealing. Users can easily edit headings, text, images, buttons, and videos with various customization options. The plugin also allows users to change typography and style details to match their website's design.
Responsive, Mobile-Ready Sliders
With Smart Slider 3, sliders are responsive and optimized for mobile devices. Users can switch between different device modes to optimize their content for various resolutions. This ensures that the sliders can be enjoyed on any device, including mobile, tablet, or desktop.
Beautiful Sliders to Start
Even without technical skills, users can create stunning sliders by choosing from a variety of pre-designed templates. Smart Slider 3 provides a collection of beautiful templates to choose from, or users can start with a blank slider and build their own customized design. The plugin supports image, layer, video, and post sliders, giving users flexibility in creating different types of sliders.
Most Powerful Features
Smart Slider 3 offers a range of powerful features that make it a top choice for creating sliders in WordPress. Some of the key features include:
Default position: Edit slides in a familiar way, similar to page builders.
Absolute position: Drag and drop layers anywhere on the slide using absolute layers.
Slide library: Access a library of pre-made slides to kickstart your work.
Totally integrated with WordPress: Compatible with media manager, shortcode, widget, post permalinks, and post editor.
Page Builder support: Works seamlessly with popular page builders like Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, and more.
Totally responsive and touch-friendly: Sliders can be enjoyed on any device, with responsive and touch-friendly functionality.
Dynamic Slides: Available source: WordPress posts.
Customizable controls: Options for arrows, bullets, autoplay, bar, thumbnails, and shadows.
Slide backgrounds: Choose from 9 smooth background animations.
Layers: Build unique designs with 6 varied layers: Image, Heading, Text, Button, Vimeo, YouTube.
Font and Style manager system: Easily customize typography and style details.
Template sliders: Access a collection of 11 ready-to-use sliders.
Testimonials
“I can heartily recommend the free version. It already provides more functionality than any other slider plugin – even many premium ones.” – Daniel Pataki – WPMU DEV
“Having tried more than a few WordPress slider plugins, both free and paid, I can honestly say that this is one of the best that I’ve ever tested…” – Daryn Collier – WPKube
“Since Smart Slider is free to use, I do not have to really stress how good a plugin it is because you can download it yourself and see for yourself.” – Kevin Muldoon
“This plugin can be used for much more than a simple slider – being able to create whole sections of your website.” – Oliver Dale – WPLift
“Taking all this into consideration, we can safely say that Smart Slider 3 is one of the top WordPress slider plugins.” – Mark Zahra – WP Mayor
Support
Smart Slider 3 is a community-driven project that values user feedback. If users encounter any issues or have feature requests for the plugin, they can reach out to the support team for assistance.
Smart Slider 3 Pro Features:
The Smart Slider 3 Pro version offers additional features and customization options, including:
Access to all template sliders
Layer animation builder
Live animation timeline
18 extra layers
2 extra slider types
Full page responsive layout
All generators for dynamic slides
Extra background animations (more than 54)
Built-in lightbox
Advanced controls and preset options
Ton of customization options
Premium support
For a full list of features, users can visit the Smart Slider 3 website.
Dynamic Slide Sources
The Smart Slider 3 Free version supports the following dynamic slide sources:
WordPress Posts: Users can display WordPress posts based on category or tag filters.
The Smart Slider 3 Pro version offers additional dynamic slide sources:
WordPress Custom Posts: Users can display WordPress custom posts from custom post types, with custom taxonomy filters or specific custom posts.
WooCommerce Slider from Products: Users can display WooCommerce products based on category, tag, featured, stock status, or specific products.
NextGEN Gallery: Users can display images and related meta from selected NextGEN galleries.
Events: Users can display events based on category or tag filters. Supported plugins include All-in-One Event Calendar, Events Manager, and The Events Calendar.
Image Slider: Users can display images and related meta from selected image galleries. Supported plugins include Gallery by BestWebSoft and Photo Gallery by WD.
Social Dynamic Sources: Users can display social media content from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and Pinterest.
Translations
Smart Slider 3 is available in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian, French, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, and German.