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Serious Slider

Serious Slider

Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress. Seriously!

3.4

Rating summary

8

Reviews

20K

Active installations

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Main benefits

SEO friendly

Fully translatable

Accessibility ready

Responsive slideshows

Hardware accelerated transitions

About this plugin

Categories: Media Management
Version: 1.2.5
Last updated: 09-06-2024
WordPress version: 4.5
Tested up to: 6.5.5
PHP version required: 5.6
Languages: 繁體中文
Learning resources: View resources

Overview

Serious Slider is a powerful, free WordPress plugin designed for creating beautiful, responsive, and SEO-friendly image slideshows with minimal effort. Featuring a user-friendly interface that integrates seamlessly with the familiar WordPress dashboard, this plugin allows users to create unlimited sliders and slides effortlessly. It supports various customization options, including titles, texts, buttons, and links for each slide, with full HTML and shortcode support. Users can enhance their presentations with multiple appearance styles, transition effects, and caption animations, ensuring a visually appealing experience across all devices and browsers. Additionally, Serious Slider offers features like a dedicated widget for sidebar displays, auto-generated shortcodes for easy integration, and full translation and accessibility readiness, making it an ideal choice for any WordPress site looking to add dynamic image sliders with ease.

Ease of Use

  • Uses familiar WordPress dashboard interface for creating slides and sliders.
  • Effortlessly add slideshows in posts, pages, or custom post types via the 'Add Slider' media button.
  • No need to remember or copy slider IDs, just select from a dropdown list.

Customization

  • Add titles, texts, buttons, and links to each slide with support for HTML tags and shortcodes.
  • Choose from 7 slider styles, 7 transition effects, and 5 caption text animations.
  • Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color, and accent color.

SEO and Accessibility

  • Built with search engines in mind, using correct HTML semantics.
  • Fully translatable and compatible with multi-language plugins like WPML, qTranslate, and PolyLang.
  • Accessibility ready, ensuring the slider is usable by all visitors.

Performance and Compatibility

  • Uses minimum JavaScript and CSS3 for a lightweight and powerful experience.
  • Browser compatibility ensures the slider looks and behaves great on various devices and browsers.
  • Works with all WordPress themes and integrates seamlessly with selected themes.

Features list

Feature

Free version

Premium version

Highly customizable

Easily tailor the theme to your specific needs.

Fully Responsive

Adapts seamlessly to any screen size or device.

Constant updates

Regularly updated to ensure compatibility and security.

SEO Friendly

Optimized for search engines to improve visibility.

Landing Page

Includes a dedicated landing page template.

Color Schemes

Offers multiple pre-defined color schemes.

Configurable Colors

Allows customization of color settings.

Socials

Integrated with social media platforms.

Layouts

Provides various layout options for different needs.

Google Fonts

Supports a wide range of Google Fonts.

Page Templates

Includes multiple pre-designed page templates.

Translation Ready

Easily translatable into different languages.

RTL Language Support

Supports right-to-left languages.

Child Themes

Allows the creation of child themes for customization.

Clean Code

Built with clean and well-organized code.

150+ options

Access to over 150 customizable settings.

Advanced Shortcodes

Enhanced shortcodes for dynamic content.

Advanced Widgets

Sophisticated widgets for added functionality.

Related Posts

Display related posts to keep readers engaged.

Individual Layout Options

Customize layouts on a per-page basis.

Portfolio Support

Features to showcase your portfolio effectively.

Testimonials Support

Tools to display customer testimonials.

Custom Post Type

Create and manage custom post types.

Configurable custom links support

Add and configure custom links easily.

Icon Blocks Sections

Sections to display icons in a structured way.

Featured Boxes Sections

Highlight key features with featured boxes.

Text Areas Sections

Dedicated sections for text content.

Sections Order

Reorder sections to fit your layout needs.

Background Colors

Customize background colors for various sections.

Pricing

Bravada

$0 / Free

Plan includes

Highly customizable
Fully Responsive
Constant updates
SEO Friendly
Landing Page
Color Schemes
Configurable Colors
Socials
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Bravada Plus

$45 / EUR / yr

Plan includes

150+ options
Advanced Shortcodes
Advanced Widgets
Page Templates
Related Posts
Individual Layout Options
Portfolio Support
Testimonials Support
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Rating and reviews

3.4

Rating summary

8

Reviews

20K

Active installations

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User sentiment analysis

Users appreciate the WordPress plugin for its simplicity, functionality, and ease of use, particularly in creating efficient slideshows and adding HTML links and buttons. However, it has significant drawbacks. Notably, it conflicts with sites or themes that rely on the jQuery Bootstrap library, often necessitating disabling Bootstrap's JavaScript and causing additional issues. The plugin's handling of images is also problematic, with inconsistent sizing even when using the "constrain" option, forcing manual cropping. User interface challenges include the non-intuitive process of tagging photos and managing slides. Despite these issues, when it works, it offers nice templates and is user-friendly, earning praise for efficient slideshow creation and promotion.
mayerka

mayerka

08 Apr, 2022

Everything ok!
Bambero

Bambero

19 Jan, 2022

It’s what I was looking for since cyclone slider. Simple, functional and free.
sparky672

sparky672

07 Jun, 2021

WARNING: If your site or theme depends on the jQuery Bootstrap library, this plugin might not work correctly. There is no workaround. I could only get this plugin to work correctly by disabling Bootstrap’s JavaScript file. However, disabling this Bootstrap file breaks my theme. I like this plugin for its ease of use and features but it is literally impossible to get working correctly with my site using the Hestia theme. Response per Serious Slider developer: Our Serious Slider plugin is Bootstrap-based so it includes the needed Bootstrap styling and JavaScript to make it work. We tried to make it self-contained so that it doesn’t expand its styling and code on anything else in the content that may also be using Bootstrap (and its classnames/IDs), however it is not possible to protect for the reverse situation without completely rewriting the Bootstrap identifiers. As such, the slider may be interfered with or malfunction completely if something else on the site use Bootstrap too and applies its styling/code too generally. Since BootStrap is such a widely used component, it would have spared me tons of wasted time if the developer had mentioned the potential for this huge conflict somewhere on their WordPress repository page. As a result of the conflict, I was forced to remove this plugin. I ended up using a plugin called Slide Anything, which seems to work very well without conflicting with Bootstrap or other popular components.
geldner

geldner

03 Nov, 2020

Each photo requires a slide. Each slide is more like a full WordPress post. There is no simple way to tag a bunch of photos and have them appear in the slider. Not intuitive or fast. Sorry guys, love your Fluida template but the slider is a fail.
Mobile PC Rescue

Mobile PC Rescue

25 Dec, 2018

This is a simple to use Slide Maker, you can add HTML Links and buttons – the transitions are quite limited compared to others I have seen. The biggest issue we have is no matter which options we select the images still change sizes even if “constrain” is on – so the height of the slider jumps up and down, moving the text up and down the page, it looks horrible, especially on your homepage; the only way we have found to fix this is to manually crop all images for the slideshow which doubles our workload and image uploads which then makes this inefficient. If the sizes could be fixed it would be worth 5 stars

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