Overview Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress. Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds. Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 5.0 and PHP 7.0.
SourceWordPress plugins · Oct 18, 2026
01 / Source details
About this tool.
Overview
Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress.
Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds. Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience.
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Serious Slider uses the very familiar WordPress dashboard interface for creating slides and sliders so there’s absolutely no learning curve. You just select the media image and press “Create Slider”. After that it’s like adding or editing WordPress posts, using featured images and other meta information like buttons and URLs.
Serious Slider works with all WordPress themes and has been designed to integrate seamlessly with our own themes .
Main Features
Create unlimited sliders with unlimited slides. The only limit is your imagination on how to use them.
Add titles, texts, buttons and links to each slide. All slide texts support HTML tags and even other shortcodes.
Easy to use media button. Effortlessly add slideshows in posts, pages or custom post types via the “Add Slider” media button in the WordPress text editor. Then just select your desired image slider from a dropdown list, no need to remember or copy slider IDs
Auto-generated Shortcodes and PHP integration. Use the auto generated shortcode to integrate slideshows with themes or other plugins. Copy-paste the auto generated PHP code to integrate with custom code.
Serious Slider Block. Insert slideshows in the content managed with the block editor
Serious Slider Widget. Display slideshows in sidebars via the classic Serious Slider widget
Use multiple sliders in the same page.
Use multiple instances of the same slider with distinct visual configurations.
Familiar admin user interface. Create sliders and slides with the familiarity of managing posts and categories, without having to learn another user interface
Lightweight and powerful. Only minimum JavaScript and CSS3 are being loaded on your site
Fast slider creation. Create awesome, responsive WordPress slideshows in a matter of seconds
5+ Caption Text Animations. Choose how caption text appears on the slide: Fade, Slide, Blur and Zoom In/Out.
Highly customizable. Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color and accent color.
Individual options for each slider. All the customization options and set individually for every slider and locally for each slider block instance.
Translation ready. Every single line of text in the slider is translatable both in the front-end as well in the back-end. Compatible with multi-language plugins (WPML, qTranslate, PolyLang).
SEO friendly. Built with search engines in mind, the slider uses correct HTML semantics.
Accessibility ready.
Once click demo content. It’s that easy, you’re one click away from having a working image slider to get you started.
Customization Features
Add individual URLs to target specific pages
Add slide buttons with customizable link, link text and “open in new window” option
Choose how to make text over images more visible: either add text shadow, multiline text background or full caption background
Choose from 8 slider styles, 7 transition effects and 5 caption text animations
Customize block instances separately from the general slider options
Customize your slider’s transition duration and delay
Choose between auto-height and fixed size for your images
Customize your slider’s font size, text alignment, caption size and accent color
Functionality Features
Our image slider uses WordPress core functionality only, providing you with the familiar WordPress interface for creating both slides and slides.
Easily transfer existing slides from one slider to another
Schedule slides to automatically become visible at any time in the future.
Quickly restore deleted slides from the Trash
Use WordPress’ text editor to add HTML content to your slides
Bulk edit slides and slides
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
Serious Slider default (Light) styleSerious Slider Dark style with caption text backgroundSerious Slider Caption Left styleSerious Slider widgetDashboard - create new sliderDashboard - manage slides overviewDashboard - slider blockDashboard - slider integration
02 / Source details
Getting started.
Automatic installation
01Navigate to Plugins in your dashboard and click the Add New button.
02Type in “Cryout Serious Slider” in the search box on the right and press Enter, then click the Install button next to the plugin title.
03After installation Activate the plugin, look for Serious Slider in the dashboard menu to set up a slider.
Manual installation
04Upload cryout-serious-slider folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
05Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
06Navigate to Serious Slider in the dashboard menu to set up a slider.
Creating the first slider
07Create a sample slider using the plugin’s demo content functionality, or
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