Splide Carousel Block

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1. ★★★★★ beatty67

   2mo ago

   I’m always having to work with carousels, and hate them. They’re always causing some kind of trouble. I finally forced a few clients to let me switch their themes to WordPress Gutenberg themes, which meant finding a suitable block version slider. After using the Splide Carousel plugin for maybe a year, and not thinking anything about it, until now when I swapped out some photos, well, I realized this is the best carousel plugin on the market. Ye old free wordpress repository. Worth its weight in gold. Thanks for making something that just works out of the box.

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2. ★★★★★ Eric Michel

   1.0y ago

   Flexible, well-implemented, performant, the barest of dependencies. If you care about not bogging down your page with massive libraries, this is the one.

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3. ★★★★★ chrislaai

   1.2y ago

   Useful and lightweight, hope to support Thumbnail Carousel

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4. ★★★★★ choerzer

   1.2y ago

   Does what it should and the block is good to use

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5. ★★★★★ Ankit Punia

   1.3y ago

   This is fantastic, very low on resources. Can you please add blocks for previous and next buttons so that we can place them according to our needs? Again, thank you for this free treat.

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6. ★★★★★ cucom

   1.5y ago

   I pretty much always use splide in my non-WordPress projects, so great to see it as a block. So far no problems with it, and all the important options are there. I just wish there was a query-loop block for this, ( I would pay for this ) Keep it up!

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7. ★★★★★ cherlynne134

   1.6y ago

   I have tried multiple carousel plugins and end up finding out there’s a splide js plugin. Really useful for an experienced developer to customise their carousels and is enough for those that have no experience to use as well!

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8. ★★★★★ Yaser Shahi

   2.8y ago

   This plugin is very useful. I hope developers continue to support this.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.7.2 Security – Fix stored Cross-Site Scripting via the url block attribute on cloudcatch/splide-carousel-item slides (CVE-2026-9022) 1.7.2
2. — Version 1.7.1 Enhancement – Compatibility with WordPress 6.9 Fix – responsive breakpoint changes causing unexpected or invalid content 1.7.1
3. — Version 1.7.0 Enhancement – Update Add New Slide button to work with native Inserter to support cloudcatch/splide-carousel-item variations / defaults 1.7.0
4. — Version 1.6.0 Enhancement – Bump block apiVersion to 3 Chore – Update dependencies and WordPress compatibility to 6.8 1.6.0
5. — Version 1.5.0 Enhancement – Compatibility with WordPress 6.7 1.5.0
6. — Version 1.4.7 Fix – Slides not visible in RTL direction mode 1.4.7

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Splide Carousel Block <= 1.7.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'url' Block Attribute ↗
   2026-05-26 CVE-2026-9022 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.7.1 Patched in 1.7.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 4 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-12 2K+ → 3K+ up after 169 days in tier
2. 2025-08-27 1K+ → 2K+ up after 388 days in tier
3. 2024-08-04 900+ → 1K+ up after 60 days in tier
4. 2024-06-05 800+ → 900+ up after 36 days in tier
5. 2024-04-30 700+ → 800+ up after 43 days in tier
6. 2024-03-18 600+ → 700+ up after 35 days in tier
7. 2024-02-12 500+ → 600+ up after 52 days in tier
8. 2023-12-22 400+ → 500+ up after 46 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• bSlider – Build Sliders That Bring Your Content to Life 6K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B
• Slider Block by Sliderberg – Slider & Carousel Plugin for Block Editor 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A
• Makeiteasy Slider 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
• Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel 70K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Carousel Slider 30K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• Ultimate Responsive Image Slider 30K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A

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Splide Carousel Block: 3K+ active installs, 5.0★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/splide-carousel