No BS Image Slider

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1. ★★★★★ Tim Reeves

   5.1y ago

   Being a minimalist, and needing a replacement for a slider plugin now abandoned, I found this plugin – and reading the description I thought “Wow, sounds great”. And it is. After installing it (it’s a small but non-trivial learning curve to use) I downloaded and unpacked the source. I could hardly believe my eyes! One PHP file, 8.665 bytes; and one CSS file, 1.429 bytes. That’s IT. And btw it’s really well written, the author is obviously a good, modern programmer. The sliders are custom ‘tags’, the slider images are custom posts (I think). Strange is, that you have to supply a ‘Featured Image’ and an image link for each slide, then it works – slides shown in the order of their creation. Just change the creation date to modify the order (untried). One thing I found not so obvious in the UI at first: On hover over the slider then a ‘paused’ icon is displayed top left and the slider is indeed paused. As soon as the mouse goes away, the icon disappears and the animation continues. But at first I thought the paused icon was a button to click to cause a pause, and since it did not I thought the plugin was broken. Silly me, but perhaps there is a way to do it even more clearly? It is now live on the homepage of a german apothecary. BTW minimalists might want to pair this with WP Featherlight as a lightbox. 5 stars really well earned – thanks Jonathan!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1

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1. 2022-11-22 — → 10+ up

Competes with

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No BS Image Slider: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/no-bs-image-slider