Lightweight Slider
Lightweight Slider is a free and extremely lightweight responsive image slider which uses custom post types and featured images. An easy to use settings page allows full control over slide height, delay between slides, transition duration and animation type.
Lightweight Slider Plugin Homepage
Features
- Extremely lightweight (less than 25kb!)
- Easy set up using custom post types and featured images
- Optional pagination and navigation controls
- Adjustable delay and transition time between slides
- Choose between fade or slide animation
- Fully responsive
- Semantic, minimal HTML
- No external resources loaded
- Simple to modify (plugin consists of only three main files)
Limitations
In order to keep this plugin as lightweight as possible it was necessary to make some compromises during development.
- This slider only works with images
- You can only create one set of slides per website
Donations
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.