With MetaSlider, you can create a powerful, SEO-optimized slider, slideshow, carousel, or gallery in minutes. MetaSlider is world’s #1 responsive WordPress slider plugin. MetaSlider is the best choice for image, photo, video (YouTube, Vimeo, local, and external), layer, WooCommerce product, and post feed sliders!
Introducing MetaSlider
With MetaSlider and MetaSlider Pro, WordPress’s most popular slider plugin, enhancing your blog or website couldn’t be easier! Simply select images, photos, videos and more from your WordPress Media Library, and drag-and-drop them into place. You can then set the slide captions, links, and SEO fields, and more.
MetaSlider slideshows, carousels, sliders and galleries are compatible with the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg), plus all page-builder plugins, from Elementor and Beaver Builder to Visual Composer and Divi.
Introducing MetaSlider Pro
If you’re looking for further customization, MetaSlider Pro offers even more powerful features.
YouTube and Vimeo video slides: Easily include responsive high definition YouTube and Vimeo videos in your slideshows.
Local Video slides: You can build beautiful slideshows with videos in your WordPress media library.
External Video slides: Create your slideshows with videos from almost any external service.
Layer slides: Create CSS3 animated HTML Layer slides using the built in drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor.
Post Feed slides: Automatically show your latest blog posts, events or WooCommerce products in your slide show.
External URL slides: Display images directly from a non-WordPress sources such as CDNs or image hosts.
Slide scheduling and slide visibility: Pro customers can now schedule sliders to appear only within specific dates, times, and days of the week.
Custom Themes – build your own theme: MetaSlider now has stunning free slider themes for you to explore. With MetaSlider Pro, you can also build your own themes.
Thumbnail Navigation: Give your slideshows a gallery feel with customizable Thumbnail and Filmstrip Navigation.
Premium Support: Get fast access to our professional support team.
Image Sliders
This may be the most basic slide type, but it still makes a great impression on any website! Present your beautiful images to a stunning slider, slide show, carousel, or gallery. Image slides are a basic slide type included in Meta Slider. An image slide will display an image with a caption. You can optionally link the slide to a URL of your choice.
Add images to your slide shows directly from your WordPress media manager, add the captions you want, set SEO fields and adjust the settings to display the slideshow just how you like it. Take it further with MetaSlider Pro and use the Theme Editor to change the look of the navigation, the arrows, and the captions.
YouTube and Vimeo Video Sliders
With MetaSlider Pro you can easily include responsive high definition YouTube and Vimeo videos in your slider, slideshow, or carousel. A video slide will display a video in your slide show directly from Vimeo or YouTube. The video will automatically pause if the user skips to the next slide.
Simply add the URL of your video to a YouTube or Vimeo slide and MetaSlider will add it to your slider, slideshow, or carousel. Either create a slide show full of you favourite videos or mix it in between slides of other types to get just the result that you want.
If you select the FlexSlider option with video slides you can take advantage of MetaSliders play/pause functionality. This means that you can have your slideshow autoplay but will pause when you set a video to play and carry on once the video has finished. You could even have the slider or slide show autoplay to give you a smooth, completely automatic presentation!
Local and External Video Sliders
External and Local Video Slides are included in MetaSlider Pro. With Local Video Slides you can build beautiful slideshows with videos in your WordPress media library. With External Video Slides you can created slideshows with videos hosted outside of your WordPress site.
Both External and Local Videos slides will display your MP4, WebM, and MOV videos with cover images, auto play, mute, lazy load, the ability to hide controls, and much more.
It is possible to add video captions to both External Internal Video Slides created with MetaSlider Pro. This feature uses VTT files to add captions. There is a “CC” button in the toolbar that viewers can use to control the captions.
Post Feed Sliders
With MetaSlider Pro you can create Post Feed slides to automatically show your latest content, blog posts, events or WooCommerce products in your slider, slide show, or carousel. MetaSlider Post Feed slides dynamically pull in slides based on your WordPress posts, using the featured image as the slide. They are also commonly known as “Content Sliders”, “Featured Sliders”, “Post Sliders” or “Dynamic Sliders”.
The Post Feed slide settings allow you to control which post types you want to display, the order to display them in and to restrict the posts to certain tags or categories. You can customise the caption template with a selection of template tags including {title}, {excerpt}, {author} and {date}. As with all our other slide types a Post Feed slide can appear in combination with any other slide type.
Post Feed slides can be used to show one post at a time but they work particularly well in carousel mode (as above) allowing you to show off a large number of your latest posts in a small amount of space.
Animated Layer Sliders
With MetaSlider Pro you can create animated Layer Slides for your slider, slideshow, or carousel. You can use the built in drag-and-drop editor to create CSS3 animated HTML Layer slides. MetaSlider Layer Slides are ideal for easily creating eye catching slider presentations and slideshows that use stunning effects with 50 animation options and a beautiful, easy to use interface. Layers can include text, html, images, photos, videos and even shortcodes! Layer Slide users also benefit from additional optimization and customization options, including using a video as the slide background and adjusting the padding and background color of each layer.
External URL Sliders
With MetaSlider Pro you can create External URL Slides to load images for your slider, slideshow, or carousel directly from non-WordPress sources, for example CDN’s or image hosts.
More Great MetaSlider Features
Optimized for Speed
MetaSlider is fast. Only the minimum JavaScript/CSS is included on your page to power your slider, slideshow, carousel, or gallery. We have optimized the Meta Slider plugin so that your images, photos, videos (YouTube and Vimeo), layers, products, and post feeds, load quickly without slowing down your website visitors’ experience.
Unsplash Integration
MetaSlider is integrated with Unsplash to access free images and photos via Unsplash.com for your slider, slideshow, carousel, and gallery. Finding the right image or photo can be the hardest part of creating a compelling slider, slide show, carousel, or gallery, and MetaSlider makes this process easy for you by never leaving your WordPress plugin interface.
Responsive and SEO-optimized
MetaSlider is a responsive, SEO-optimized WordPress plugin that lets you create a slider, slideshow, carousel, and gallery in seconds.
Your MetaSlider responsive slider, slideshow, carousel, or gallery will adapt to the width of the device they’re being displayed on, including desktop, mobile or tablet. The content will be responsive regardless of the type of content you use: image, photo, video (YouTube and Vimeo), layer, product, and post feed slides.
The MetaSlider SEO tab lets you set image title and alt text for your slides. The title text should provide additional information about the slide, whereas the alt text should be used to describe the image itself. This data allows search engines to ‘read’ your slides and helps with search engine rankings!
Powerful Editing Options
In addition to MetaSlider’s simple drag-and-drop features, our slider, slide show, gallery, and carousel plugin for WordPress offers many powerful features. Whether you are someone running a site who wants to make a great first impression with beautiful photos or someone making websites for clients, MetaSlider enables you to create the perfect customized experience.
Full width slider and gallery support MetaSlider will match your site design and is compatible with any WordPress theme that you choose to use.
Intelligent Image Cropping: Unique Smart Crop functionality ensures your slides are perfectly resized. No fuss.
Smart Pad: With cropping disabled, Smart Pad automatically adds padding to portrait images allowing you to mix portrait and landscape images and maintain a consistent slideshow height.
Drag-and-Drop editor: Includes drag-and-drop slide reordering, intelligent image cropping, set image crop position.
Slider configuration: Customize the transition effect, speed, timing, plus many more!
Live Theme Editor: With MetaSlider Pro you can create unlimited themes and preview them on-the-fly.
Thumbnail Navigation (Pro): MetaSlider Pro adds in 2 new types of slider and slideshow navigation:
“Thumbnail” will output a static row of thumbnails below the slideshow.
“Filmstrip” will output a carousel style row of thumbnails below the slideshow (with left and right navigation) – perfect if you have lots of slides!
Slider Themes
MetaSlider Pro introduces the MetaSlider Theme Editor. MetaSlider Pro includes 11 free professional and responsive slide show themes for sliders, slideshows, and carousels. These themes enable you to effortlessly create beautiful and effective sliders, slideshows, and carousels designed by professionals.
The MetaSlider theme editor also allows you to create your own slider, slideshow, and carousel themes to use across your sites where you install MetaSlider. With these themes you can perfectly display any content, including image, photo, video (YouTube and Vimeo), layer, product, and post feed slides.
Import and Export Your Sliders
With slider, slideshow, and carousel import and export you can move your perfectly designed sliders between your websites or your clients’ websites. Instead of recreating your settings on every website, export your slider, slideshow, or carousel with one click and import it to another WordPress suite just as easily with MetaSlider.
Ready for the Gutenberg Block Editor
MetaSlider has been designed to work seamlessly with the new Gutenberg WordPress Block Editor by using our Gutenberg block. We give you ultimate flexibility to embed MetaSlider into your WordPress website using a Gutenberg block, shortcode, or widget.
Fully Localized with Translation Support
MetaSlider is compatible with some of the most popular WordPress translation plugins, including WPML, PolyLang & qTranslate. You can make sure that your slider, slideshow, carousel, or gallery are fully localized for your audiences around the world. MetaSlider localization supports any content you include in your slider.
Slider Lightbox Support
MetaSlider offers responsive image and photo lightbox support with the MetaSlider Lightbox add-on, allowing slides to be opened in a lightbox, using one of several supported lightbox plugins, including Easy FancyBox, Simple Lightbox, and FooBox Image Lightbox.
Slider Plugin Integrations
MetaSlider is integrated with other popular WordPress plugins, including WooCommerce, the Events Calendar, and WPML. This enables you to seamlessly show the most engaging content to your audience in a slider, slideshow, carousel, or gallery.
You can use the popular events management plugin “The Events Calendar” with MetaSlider’s new Post Feed Slides. MetaSlider detects if you have The Events Calendar plugin activated and offers you the ability to order by event date, so you can show off your upcoming events in a slider, slideshow, or carousel.
WooCommerce sliders are also easy with MetaSlider. You can show the products you choose in a stylish WooCommerce slideshow.
Carousel Sliders
In addition to creating traditional sliders and slideshows, you can use MetaSlider to build carousels that allow you to show multiple images at any one time. MetaSlider carousels are compatible with all slide types, including image, photo, video (YouTube, Vimeo, and local), layer, WooCommerce product, and Post Feed slides. They’re ideal for showing a list of your latest posts or to use as a “Featured Product” slider for your homepage.
Support for Every Type of Content Slider
MetaSlider provides unrestricted support for your image and photo slider, slide show, carousel, and gallery, including captions, links, title texts and alt text. With the MetaSlider Pro add-on you can also add video (YouTube/Vimeo), layer, product, and post feed content to a slider, slide show or carousel.
You can use any combination of MetaSlider Pro slide types for sliders, slideshows, and carousels. For example you can have a slider with an image slide, a post feed slide (that can contain multiple posts), and a video slide. To create this simply add slides as you normally would, selecting the relevant slide type each time.
New Photo Gallery Experience
MetaSlider now features a new gallery experience that supports images and photos. With an easy drag-and-drop photo gallery builder, you can create a responsive and optimized photo gallery in seconds using the same WordPress Media Gallery images you are already using with MetaSlider sliders, slide shows, and carousels. You can use a simple shortcode (just like MetaSlider) to add the MetaSlider photo gallery to any page.
We are building the photo gallery following these principles:
Fast – Using modern best practices, your responsive photo gallery will be faster than ever.
SEO-focused – Search engines will love your photo gallery.
Fully WCAG accessible – All users will be able to enjoy your responsive photo gallery.
You can create a photo gallery, and then add images to your gallery from the WordPress Media Library. Simply drag-and-drop images and photos into your gallery, easily reorder them, and add an image alt attribute to your images and photos to ensure that your gallery is SEO friendly. To make sure that your responsive photo gallery looks just right on your WordPress page or post, the MetaSlider gallery allows you to change the image and photo width, max width, min width, and spacing of your gallery.
The MetaSlider photo gallery also offers a distraction free fullscreen mode for gallery editing, and we will soon add to the photo gallery a dark mode and background color selection.
To add your responsive Meta Slider photo gallery to a page, simply click the “add to page” button in your gallery editor to generate a WordPress shortcode that you can drop onto any page or post.
The MetaSlider photo gallery is in development, and we would love to hear your feedback on the gallery and ideas for photo gallery features we should work on next.
Privacy Policy
MetaSlider uses the Appsero SDK to collect non-sensitive diagnostic data upon a user’s confirmation. This data helps us to troubleshoot problems faster and make product improvements. MetaSlider only collects this diagnostic data when a user allows it via a notice in WP Admin or MetaSlider settings. View our privacy policy.
MetaSlider has been tested with many most popular free WordPress themes and the most common plugins. We have hundreds of thousands of users who run MetaSlider without any problems. If you’re one of the unlucky ones, 9 times out of 10 it will be down to a conflict with either your chosen theme or plugins.
To help troubleshoot MetaSlider, we have a series of Yes / No questions that can help you quickly resolve most issues.
The guide linked below will show you how to create a “full width” layout for your MetaSlider slider. The aim is to create a slider that will stretch from one side of the browser window to another. How you create a “full width” layout will depend on your theme, so please read this guide to understand the best approach for your site.
The guide linked below will show how to build a full-screen slideshow for your site. The slideshow works as normal with Previous and Next arrows, navigation, and more. However, the slideshow is the only thing visible on the screen.
To change the style of MetaSlider you should override the default MetaSlider styles with your own styles. If you’re not comfortable with editing the CSS yourself, you’ll be glad to know that MetaSlider Pro includes a live theme editor that lets you completely customize the style of your slideshow with no coding experience needed! Here is a quick to updating the MetaSlider styling. Some experience with HTML and CSS is assumed.
How to I add captions or subtitles to MetaSlider videos?
You can add video captions to External and Internal Video Slides created with MetaSlider Pro. This feature uses VTT files to add captions. There are four different types of VTT file supported in MetaSlider: Captions, Chapters, Descriptions, and Subtitles.
Yes, image sliders are the most popular way to use MetaSlider. Image slideshows are included in MetaSlider Free and MetaSlider Pro. An image carousel will display an image. You can also add other features such as a caption, or a URL link.
Yes, Vimeo Slideshows are included in MetaSlider Pro. A Vimeo Slide will display a video in your slideshow directly from Vimeo.com. You can control the appearance of the videos and also add extra features to the videos such as auto play, mute, and loop.
Yes, YouTube Slideshows are included in MetaSlider Pro. A YouTube Slide will display a video in your slideshow directly from YouTube.com. You can control the appearance of the videos and also add extra features to the videos such as auto play, mute, and loop.
Yes, you can use MetaSlider with many of the most popular plugins. We have particularly deep integrations with WooCommerce, The Events Calendar, and Advanced Custom Fields. You can make WooCommerce slider to showcase your products. You can build a WooCommerce slideshow with just a few clicks, thanks to MetaSlider.
In this guide linked below, we’ll show you how to create a slideshow of WooCommerce products using MetaSlider Pro. This slideshow will update automatically showing the products in the WooCommerce categories you choose. Read the guide to WooCommerce sliders
In this guide linked below, we’ll show how MetaSlider can automatically create slides based on events in The Events Calendar plugin, displaying the featured image as the slide. Read the guide to The Events Calendar sliders
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) is a very popular WordPress plugin, with over 2 million active installs. If you use ACF to add fields to your content, it’s possible to use MetaSlider Pro to show those fields in a slideshow. In this guide, I’ll show you how to connect ACF and MetaSlider. Read the guide to Advanced Custom Fields slider
Join the slider revolution and use MetaSlider to build beautiful slideshows with data from other plugins.
Can I show sliders only on one specific posts or pages?
Yes, it is possible to specify that your MetaSlider slideshow only appears on specific posts, pages, or your homepage.
Can I create External URL sliders with MetaSlider?
Yes, External URL image Slideshows are included in MetaSlider Pro. External URL carousels allow you to load images directly from a non-WordPress sources such as CDNs or image hosts.
Yes, Post Feed Slides are included in MetaSlider Pro. Post Feed slideshows dynamically display slides based on your WordPress posts, using the featured image (required) as the slide. They are also commonly known as “Content Sliders”, “Featured Sliders”, “Post Sliders” or “Dynamic Sliders”.
Yes, Layer Slides are included in MetaSlider Pro. Layer Slideshows allow you to creates layer of different elements on top. You can add text, video, colors, animations and even other images on top of your first image.
Our official name is MetaSlider. Don’t worry – we’ll still understand if you call us Metasldier, Meta slider, Slide meta, ML Slider, ml-sider, METASLIDER, or other variations. You’ll still find MetaSlider to be the best WordPress slider! Join the slider revolution with MetaSlider!
How does MetaSlider compare to other gallery and slideshow plugins?
There are lot of good gallery and slideshow plugins available including NextGen, 10Web, Envira, Modula, FooGallery, Smart Slider 3, Depicter, Slider Revolution, Soliloquy and more.
Enivra Gallery, FooGallery, and Module Gallery are photo gallery plugins. Smart Slider 3, Depicter, Slider Revolution, Soliloquy are slideshow plugins.
This variety of options is why we love WordPress and why you do too. However, give MetaSlider a test and you’ll find it has a wonderful balance between speed and features. Some of the plugins on this list are very basic. Other plugins have too many features and are slow and bloated. MetaSlider makes sure that your site runs incredibly quickly, while making sure you still have a very robust set of features. Join our slider revolution! We believe MetaSlider is the best slide show and gallery option.
Is MetaSlider compatible with page-builder plugins?
Yes, you can build Elementor slides and Beaver Builder slideshows. You can create Visual Composer sliders and Divi slideshows. No matter what page-builder plugin you use, MetaSlider will work for you whenever you need to build slide shows.
SECURITY: Added additional permissions check before saving data in the admin;
FIXED: Removed not used demo folders and index.html files from JS libraries, #213;
FIXED: Fixed the redirection URL after deleting a gallery, #221;
[3.27.8] – 18 Jul, 2022
CHANGED: Set Extendify SDK as disabled by default to fix support to WP 4.9, #197;
FIXED: Fix WP 4.9 support checking if function ‘wp_set_script_translations’ exists before calling it, #196;
[3.27.7] – 14 Jul, 2022
FIXED: Fix Italian language translation, #137;
FIXED: Fix issue with Docket Cache, #182;
FIXED: Fix translation of pages based on JS, #186;
FIXED: Fix language translation for the MetaGallery module, #138;
FIXED: Remove not needed use statement for the class Extendify\Library\App, #136;
[3.27.6] – 27 Jun, 2022
CHANGED: Improved the promo banner, #141, #168, #166;
FIXED: Error “Cannot read properties of undefined” and “t.value is undefined” in the Export area, #142, #163;
FIXED: Thumbnails are not showing in the slideshow list, #98;
FIXED: Stop showing generic JS errors using toast messages, #162;
FIXED: Error PHP Warning: Illegal string offset ‘dismiss_time’ in on line 204, #174;
FIXED: Stop showing promo banners if Pro is installed, #170;
[3.27.5] – 12 May, 2022
FIXED: Fix conflict with MetaSlider Lightbox after the latest update, Class ‘Extendify\Library\App’ not found, #132.
[3.27.4] – 11 May, 2022
ADDED: Complete logo in toolbar.
ADDED: Add setting field to disable Extendify internal integration, #106.
ADDED: Add Italian translation files to the languages folder, #112.
CHANGED: Updated the Spanish translation files on the languages folder, #112.
CHANGED: Add a delay of a few days before displaying the Extendify banner, #105.
CHANGED: Updated the Extendify SDK to version 0.8.1, #120.
REMOVED: Plugin version below logo from toolbar, #115.
REMOVED: Short logo from toolbar, #115.
REMOVED: Gutenberg box from welcome screen, #116.
FIXED: Banners discount, #107.
FIXED: Fix the privacy policy link in the settings page, #121.
[3.27.3] – 21 Mar, 2022
CHANGED: Update Extendify library.
[3.27.2] – 08 Mar, 2022
CHANGED: Update Extendify library.
REMOVED: Remove get_plugins early cache.
[3.27.1] – 22 Feb, 2022
ADDED: Added animation back to slide previews, but only on hover.
ADDED: Added rel and alt tags o nivo slider.
REMOVED: Removed slide data from local storage when the user has high slide count.
FIXED: Fixed version number display bug.
FIXED:Fixed bug where high post ids took time to save – thanks @fschatz.
[3.26.0] – 08 Feb, 2022
CHANGED: Update Extendify library.
[3.25.2] – 01 Feb, 2022
FIXED: Removes WP welcome notice interference.
[3.25.1] – 26 Jan, 2022
FIXED: Adds compatibility with WP 5.9 and block prop filter.
[3.25.0] – 25 Jan, 2022
CHANGED: Update Extendify library.
FIXED: Adds PHP5.3 compatibility by removing array shorthand syntax.
[3.24.0] – 06 Jan, 2022
CHANGED: Update Extendify library.
[3.23.5] – 30 Nov, 2021
FIXED: Fixes post output stripslashes bug.
[3.23.4] – 23 Nov, 2021
FIXED: Fixes array key on boolean bug.
[3.23.3] – 12 Nov, 2021
FIXED: Fixes theme conflict with the utility class stylesheet.
[3.23.2] – 11 Nov, 2021
FIXED: Lowers utility class display specificity.
[3.23.1] – 03 Nov, 2021
CHANGED: Changes how metagallery language files are loaded.
CHANGED: Updates library.
[3.23.0] – 27 Aug, 2021
CHANGED: Bug fixes and updates to the library.
[3.22.1] – 11 Aug, 2021
FIXED: Addresses bug with array_key_exists.
FIXED: Addresses conflict with standalone Gutenberg plugin.
[3.22.0] – 05 Aug, 2021
CHANGED: Removes plugin dependency from editor library.
[3.21.0] – 19 Jul, 2021
FIXED: Fixes incorrect support URL link.
CHANGED: Adds MetaSLider patterns to editor Library.
[3.20.3] – 02 Mar, 2021
FIXED: Update responsive slides to improve jQuery compatability.
FIXED: Updates uasort to be PHP8 compatible.
FIXED: Fixes a typo in the export callback.
[3.20.2] – 08 Feb, 2021
CHANGED: Removes unused Alpine helpers to reduce file size.
FIXED: Removes various PHP notices.
[3.20.1] – 03 Feb, 2021
FIXED: Fixes a bug for users on older PHP versions.
[3.20.0] – 18 Jan, 2021
CHANGED: Adds the gallery feature.
FIXED: Fixes typo in API fallback fetch function.
[3.19.1] – 01 Dec, 2020
CHANGED: Adds option to filter HTML Purify.
CHANGED: Updates Appsero dependency version.
[3.19.0] – 12 Nov, 2020
CHANGED: Fixes typo on svg button in Simply Dark.
CHANGED: Adds install date to optin Appsero report.
CHANGED: Adds passive listener option to FlexSlider touch events.
FIXED: Processes library assets to minify and optimize (production ready).
[3.18.9] – 05 Nov, 2020
FIXED: Adds polyfill for WP 4.5 wp_add_inline_script.
FIXED: Removes some non PHP 5.3 code from 3rd party lib.
[3.18.8] – 02 Nov, 2020
CHANGED: Pass callback function to Appsero instead of relying on caching..
CHANGED: Switches Appsero integration to only collected info on the user that logged in..
FIXED: Adds PHP5.3 compatibility by removing array shorthand syntax.
[3.18.7] – 27 Oct, 2020
CHANGED: Clean up some of the Analytic specific items and reporting bugs. Note: no bugs related to improper handling..
[3.18.6] – 26 Oct, 2020
FIXED: Remove PHP 7.3 specific trailing commas.
[3.18.5] – 22 Oct, 2020
CHANGED: Moves the support related items to a separate page in prep to make it more robust..
CHANGED: Updates privacy policy and opt-in product analytics.
[3.18.3]/4 – 15 Oct, 2020
CHANGED: Updates plugin name to better describe its use, but keep plugin page title simple.
[3.18.2] – 02 Oct, 2020
FIXED: Scopes slideshow cache to site (for multi-site support).
[3.18.1] – 21 Sep, 2020
FIXED: Removes Nivo loading gif and add back specificity.
[3.18.0] – 05 Sep, 2020
FIXED: Updates UI elements and updates icon set (FA was causing issues on some hosts).
[3.17.6] – 31 Aug, 2020
FIXED: Fixes issue with build script and script version number.
[3.17.5] – 31 Aug, 2020
FIXED: Fixes bug where the notices nonce script loading relied on jQuery.
[3.17.4] – 29 Aug, 2020
CHANGED: Tweaks to the deploy script (patch version numbers might jump as a result).
FIXED: Adds extra check for HTML Purify class (fixes conflict with CiviCRM).
[3.17.2] – 28 Aug, 2020
CHANGED: Archives the “Thank you” dashboard notice for now.
CHANGED: Limits loading admin specific code from the front end.
CHANGED: Switches to a new CI and build process (report any issues to our support channel).
CHANGED: Adds extra permission_callback check to settings routes.
SECURITY: Adds extra filtering of captions using HTML Purifier (http://htmlpurifier.org/). Reminder: Only users with edit_others_posts capability can edit slideshows, which is a role that may be added by third party plugins (ex. Shop Managers from WooCommerce have this role). If you need to limit who can edit your slideshows, then you can update this with the filter metaslider_capability, for example to manage_options. Contact us in support for more information. (Thanks to Fortinet Fortiguard Labs).
[3.17.1] – 13 Aug, 2020
CHANGED: Adds permission_callback check to register_rest_route as an added redundancy.
CHANGED: Updates colorbox’s jQuery .live() function to use .on().
[3.17.0] – 05 Aug, 2020
CHANGED: Adds setting page to update some default settings.
CHANGED: Adds export and import functionality.
CHANGED: Updates jQuery to work with WP 5.5 (while maintaining backwards compatibility).
FIXED: Fixes a bug where FlexSlider carousel doesn’t calculate margins properly.
FIXED: Fixes a bug where custom themes would show on fresh slideshows.
[3.16.4] – 16 Apr, 2020
FIXED: Addresses a conflict with Gutenberg modules that some users are seeing (fix in 3.16.3 was incomplete).
[3.16.2] – 08 Apr, 2020
FIXED: Updates Gutenberg module to use the new @wordpress/block-editor library.
[3.16.1] – 03 Apr, 2020
CHANGED: Updates the media_buttons_context hook to use media_buttons.
[3.16.0] – 25 Mar, 2020
CHANGED: Adds sorting options to the dropdown drawer module.
CHANGED: Expand error handler attempt to catch errors from elsewhere.
CHANGED: Expand search results from 15 to 25 and make that customizable.
CHANGED: Adds a reactive title module.
CHANGED: Updates to use WP style notifications and modals.
CHANGED: Loads in recent slideshows and lets the user opt to load more.
CHANGED: Switches anitmation to requestAnimationFrame for added performance.
CHANGED: Separates settings saving logic from slides, and saves in chunks of 10 slides.
CHANGED: Adds warning message to users that have a very low input var setting.
CHANGED: Adds fallback for 404 routes to admin-ajax.
CHANGED: Adds ability to use the JS dev build for debugging. Use SCRIPT_DEBUG to enable.
FIXED: Fixes issue where single quotes in settings input fields would cause a blank page.
FIXED: Removes unwanted side menu items on the media library view.
[3.15.3] – 28 Nov, 2019
FIXED: Updates layout breaks in WP5.3.
[3.15.2] – 14 Nov, 2019
CHANGED: Adds loaded event that other plugins can wait for.
CHANGED: Updates a few UI elements on the search bar and slideshow drawer.
CHANGED: Adds better checks for error messages.
FIXED: Fixes an issue where certain settings would show when not needed.
FIXED: Fixes a layout break in IE11.
FIXED: Addresses performance issues with a very large collection of slideshows.
[3.15.1] – 22 Oct, 2019
FIXED: Adds better check for slide image thumbnails and count.
FIXED: Updates $ to jQuery on the admin settings screen.
[3.15.0] – 21 Oct, 2019
CHANGED: Adds a new way to navigate slideshows.
CHANGED: Adds various accessibility enhancements to FlexSlider.
CHANGED: Adds extra checks for REST enabled sites.
CHANGED: Updates notices.
FIXED: Updates various RTL language styling issues.
FIXED: Fixes bug where new slides wouldn’t crop until pressing save.
FIXED: Fixes various layout breaks from other languages.
[3.14.0] – 26 Jul, 2019
CHANGED: Adds ability to duplicate a slideshow.
CHANGED: Adds toolbar with various utilities.
CHANGED: Adds unified notification system.
CHANGED: Moves inline styles out of the body tag.
CHANGED: Refactors the preview module to be called from anywhere.
CHANGED: Refactors the way slides and the slideshow saving works.
CHANGED: Refactors the shortcode copy module.
CHANGED: Adds helper functions to better manage the routes files.
FIXED: Fixes a bug where adding a class name via Gutenberg crashes the block.
[3.13.1] – 11 May, 2019
CHANGED: Corrects a check on a variable in Theme.php, preventing a possible PHP notice.
[3.13.0] – 07 May, 2019
CHANGED: Allows captions to inherit the image description.
CHANGED: Adds support for theme developers to register a theme.
CHANGED: Adds extra checks for when a theme is missing.
CHANGED: Removes some ancient code for compatibility with PHP < 5.1.
CHANGED: Stops random theme being inherited when user removes it.
CHANGED: DOM appended slides are now rendered as Vue components.
[3.12.1] – 18 Mar, 2019
FIXED: Fixes a bug where Nivo and Coin Slider did not ship with the plugin.
[3.12.0] – 18 Mar, 2019
CHANGED: Sets a default theme on a newly created slideshow.
CHANGED: Adds various trivial code quality fixes.
CHANGED: Adds access to the Unsplash.com image library.
[3.11.1] – 30 Jan, 2019
FIXED: Update Gutenberg compatibility.
[3.11.0] – 30 Jan, 2019
CHANGED: Adds drag and drop module.
CHANGED: Adds a convenient start page for new users.
CHANGED: Updates various UI elements.
CHANGED: Removes fonts to reduce package size.
CHANGED: Adds an escape output of slideshow titles.
CHANGED: Removes defunct preview method.
FIXED: Fixes layout issue with notices served by other plugins.
FIXED: Updates Gutenberg container styles.
FIXED: Fixes issue where Coin Slider wouldn’t open in a new window.
FIXED: Updates support for Elementor page builder.
[3.10.3] – 04 Dec, 2018
FIXED: Updates Gutenberg compatibility.
[3.10.2] – 21 Nov, 2018
FIXED: Fixes bug in with captions in NivoSlider.
[3.10.1] – 20 Nov, 2018
CHANGED: Removes redundant height and width attributes.
FIXED: Fixes bug in PHP 5.2 where images would not import.
FIXED: Updates various translation errors and adds translator tips.
FIXED: Allows the folder name to be safely changed.
FIXED: Fixes the situation where using a different folder name breaks everything.
FIXED: Fixes a Gutenberg-related bug that appears in WP5.0 beta2.
[3.10.0] – 25 Oct, 2018
CHANGED: Adds 11 new themes users can apply to their slideshows.
CHANGED: Adds ability to preview a slideshow with a theme.
CHANGED: Adds ability for a theme developer to add instructions.
CHANGED: Adds unique images by theme if a user is importing images.
CHANGED: Adds new channel for user feedback.
CHANGED: Adds new developer filters to adjust slide output/visibility.
CHANGED: Adds a title to the theme module.
CHANGED: Adds ability to import images with captions, title, alt and desc. from a theme.
FIXED: Updates unusable filter when attempting to filter slides by type.
FIXED: Fixes a bug when babel-polyfil is loaded more than once.
FIXED: Adds an extra check for an error before saving the theme.
[3.9.1] – 28 Sep, 2018
FIXED: Fixes a bug where some slides get appended inside others.
[3.9.0] – 11 Sep, 2018
CHANGED: Adds the option to toggle autoplay for Coin Slider.
CHANGED: Adds keyboard shortcuts to preview.
CHANGED: Adds full width toggle to preview.
CHANGED: Adds a light and dark preview option.
CHANGED: Adds ability to import images if none exist.
CHANGED: Adds Gutenberg block.
CHANGED: Adds ability to use the title in a shortcode.
CHANGED: Adds translation functionality to JS components.
CHANGED: Updates Pro slide types descriptions.
CHANGED: Adds placeholder and comparison table entries for schedule functionality.
CHANGED: Adds compatibility with Pro feature ability to change layer slide background.
CHANGED: Updates option name on slideshow select box as title name changes.
CHANGED: Adds default Flexslider fonts to repo for users that require them.
CHANGED: Adds filters to slides edit buttons.
CHANGED: Tweaks edits buttons style.
FIXED: Limits image srcset to image and layer slides (fixes post feed image).
FIXED: Fixes broken Nivo themes (due to css specificity).
FIXED: Fixes bug where icons would jump during delete.
[3.8.1] – 07 Jun, 2018
FIXED: Limits responsive image srcset to slideshows with cropping disabled only.
FIXED: Increases responsive image srcset maximum size to Full.
[3.8.0] – 04 Jun, 2018
CHANGED: Adds compatibility with new Pro schedule feature.
CHANGED: Adds compatibility with retina plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/.
CHANGED: Adds option to enable or disable initial fade in.
CHANGED: Improves Responsiveness.
CHANGED: Adds default Flexslider fonts to repo for users that require them..
CHANGED: Removes plugin dependency on Notice class.
CHANGED: Standardizes the code to deny direct access.
CHANGED: Updates how the plugin handles setting updates.
FIXED: Fixes error when trying to save many slides.
FIXED: Fixes broken markup in settings in some languages.
FIXED: Fixes bug that always strips referral tags.
FIXED: Adds a check to the copy/paste element to make sure it exists before adding an event.
[3.7.2] – 20 Mar, 2018
CHANGED: Removes an obsolete admin notice.
SECURITY: Prevents a non-persistent logged-in XSS attack. The attacker must persuade a logged-in admin-level WP user to click on a malicious link specifically targeted to your site; this can result in his chosen JavaScript being run inside your browser on the MetaSlider page. Hence, the risk is low, but you should certainly update.
[3.7.1] – 13 Mar, 2018
FIXED: Updates FlexSlider to remove flash on page load.
[3.7.0] – 26 Feb, 2018
CHANGED: Allows users to inherit default captions and other data from the image.
CHANGED: Updates to the correct support link.
FIXED: Adds capability filter to pages.
[3.6.8] – 26 Jan, 2018
FIXED: Updates support links to their correct locations.