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Responsive Thumbnail Slider

A fast, lightweight responsive thumbnail slider for WordPress — modern animation engine, lightbox, captions, and full theme/builder compatibility.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.1.53
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 3.5 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update2 Sept 20262mo ago
Active installations1K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.4 / 5 from 23 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Responsive Thumbnail Slider version 1.1.53 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Responsive Thumbnail Slider lets you build a clean, responsive image slider and drop it anywhere on your site — no coding required. It’s built to be lightweight and fast by default, with a modern rendering engine that doesn’t even require jQuery on the front end.

Live Demo

Two rendering engines

  • Modern — a lightweight, dependency-free engine (no jQuery required for the slider itself), touch/swipe-friendly, with lazy-loaded images
  • Legacy — the original engine, kept for sites that want it exactly as-is
  • Existing sites automatically stay on Legacy after updating, so nothing changes on your live site — new installs default to Modern

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Everything you need for a great-looking slider

  • Add any number of images to your slider
  • Set image height and width, slider speed, and how many images are visible at once
  • Circular (looping) slider, or arrow-only navigation
  • Auto-slide, or manual control with left/right arrows
  • Optional pager dots and image captions
  • Optional lightbox — clicking a slide opens the full image in a clean overlay
  • Preview your slider before publishing it
  • Image name doubles as the alt tag for SEO
  • Responsive admin layout and WordPress capability support
  • No advertisements

Simple to add anywhere

Use the shortcode [print_responsive_thumbnail_slider] in any page, post, or widget — or use it directly in a theme template with do_shortcode(). Full Gutenberg block editor support is built in.

Need more than one slider?

The free version gives you one slider — great for a single homepage banner or gallery. If you need more, Responsive Thumbnail Slider PRO unlocks:

  • Unlimited sliders — a completely different, independent slider for every page
  • 16 real easing animation curves, including true Bounce and Elastic motion
  • Bulk image upload, drag-to-reorder, or random image order
  • Per-slider styling — border color, radius, box-shadow, crop / no-crop modes
  • Per-image custom links, link targets, and captions
  • Native Elementor widget and Divi module, both with live builder previews
  • Full Gutenberg block editor control — create and edit sliders, and pick images from the Media Library, without leaving the block sidebar
  • Per-slider analytics dashboard — impressions, clicks, and click-through rate, with a 30-day graph (aggregate-only, no visitor tracking)

See Responsive Thumbnail Slider PRO →

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License

This plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But you can make some donations if you realy find it useful.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • gutenberg block
  • image slider
  • responsive slider
  • thumbnail carousel
  • thumbnail slider
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.5 · PHP not listed
Update activity2 Sept 20262mo ago

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