General Slider

General Slider is a fast, modern slider for WordPress. Create a slider once, then place it anywhere with a block or shortcode — no page builder and no coding required.

Use it as a hero slider, image carousel, testimonial slider, logo carousel, product showcase or fullscreen banner, in the block editor, with a shortcode, or as an Elementor widget — on any block or classic theme. It’s ideal for WooCommerce product sliders, Full Site Editing layouts, portfolios and landing pages.

Browse the demo gallery — see every ready-made slider you can import in one click · Read the full guide — setting up a slider, the block and shortcode options, and how the assets stay off pages that have no slider · Development on GitHub — report issues or contribute.

Why General Slider?

• Lightweight and fast — no jQuery on the front end (built on the Splide engine)

• Accessibility-first — keyboard, screen reader, play/pause and reduced-motion support

• Works with any theme — block (FSE) or classic

• Beginner friendly — build sliders from the WordPress admin, no code

• Block, shortcode and Elementor — add a slider anywhere

• Loads only where needed — assets are added only on pages that show a slider

Perfect for

• Business and agency websites

• Portfolios and landing pages

• Hero sections and fullscreen banners

• Image and logo carousels

• Testimonials and team showcases

• Product showcases and WooCommerce banners

Getting started

• Install and activate General Slider.

• Go to General Slider > Add New, add your slides, or import a ready-made demo from the Demo Library.

• Add the General Slider block to any page, or paste the shortcode. Done.

Features

Editing

• Reusable sliders — build slides manually, or pull them dynamically from your posts, pages or WooCommerce products

• Per-slide image or background video (self-hosted MP4/WebM, YouTube or Vimeo)

• Sub heading, heading, text, button and a whole-slide clickable link

• Categories, a duplicate action and custom CSS per slider

• Start from a ready-made demo when creating a new slider

Display

• Gutenberg block, shortcode and Elementor widget

• Five design presets — Hero, Split, Minimal, Testimonial and Fullscreen

• Navigation & frame skins — Classic, Soft, Stories, Stories Progress (auto-filling segments), Numbers, Vertical, Corner, Neon, Minimal, Pill, Outline, Retro, Glass and Dark looks for the arrows, dots and slider frame; mix any skin with any preset

• Text entrance animations — fade, fade up/down, slide from left/right or zoom, staggered across the sub heading, heading, text and button

• Device-specific settings — different slides-per-view, gap, height, arrows, dots and content visibility for tablet and mobile

• Slide or fade transitions, autoplay with a pause control

• Multiple slides per view (carousel) with adjustable gap

• Thumbnail navigation and Ken Burns zoom

• Overlay (solid or gradient), image fit, focus point and accent colour

Performance

• No jQuery on the front end

• Conditional asset loading — nothing loads on pages without a slider

• Lazy-loaded images, with the first slide eager and high-priority for a better LCP

• Sliders initialise only when scrolled into view

• RTL ready

Accessibility

• Full keyboard navigation and screen-reader labels

• Play/pause button for autoplay

• Respects the reduced-motion setting

For developers

• Filters: general_slider_settings, general_slider_slides, general_slider_config, general_slider_html, general_slider_presets, general_slider_skins, general_slider_dynamic_query_args, general_slider_dynamic_slide and general_slider_demo_library_url

• Register your own design preset or navigation skin, or reshape a dynamic slider’s query and slides

Demos & migration

• Demo Library — import ready-made sliders, images included, in one click

• Export any slider as a portable demo package (.zip)

• JSON import / export, plus global default settings for new sliders

External services

io/wp-plugin-demo-library

It connects to this service only when you:

• open the Demo Library screen — to download the list of demos and show their preview images; and

• click Import Demo — to download that demo’s data and images into your site’s Media Library.

These are plain, read-only requests for files. No personal data is collected or sent, and no request is made unless you use the Demo Library. ) — terms of service — privacy statement.

com domain). ), which may set cookies — YouTube terms — Google privacy — Vimeo terms — Vimeo privacy. Self-hosted video files (MP4/WebM) involve no third party at all.