Lexiata XSlider
Lexiata XSlider is a tiny, blazing-fast image slider plugin built from scratch. Total footprint: about 300KB on disk, with a front-end payload of about 6KB gzipped (CSS + JS combined). No bundled libraries, no jQuery on the front-end, no third-party services. Why XSlider? Most slider plugins ship wi
Lexiata XSlider is a tiny, blazing-fast image slider plugin built from scratch. Total footprint: about 300KB on disk, with a front-end payload of about 6KB gzipped (CSS + JS combined). No bundled libraries, no jQuery on the front-end, no third-party services.
Why XSlider?
Most slider plugins ship with hundreds of templates, layer animations, and features you will never use — and your visitors pay for every kilobyte. XSlider keeps only what you need:
- Clean image sliders with optional click-through URLs
- Horizontal, vertical, fade and zoom-fade animations
- Autoplay, swipe/drag, keyboard navigation
- Arrows + bullets, fully customisable
- Responsive images (srcset) — phones download phone-sized files
- SEO-friendly markup with proper alt text and ARIA roles
- Lazy initialisation (the slider boots only when scrolled into view)
- Style via CSS classes + the WordPress Customizer (Additional CSS)
- Native Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, shortcode, and PHP function — insert a slider in any editor or builder
Built for WordPress agencies and freelancers by Suresh L. Bamunusinghe at Lexiata.lk — battle-tested in production sites.
Key features
- Up to 8 settings tabs — General, Size, Controls, Animations, Autoplay, Optimize, Slides, Developer
- Image and Blank slides — Blank slides support a custom background colour
- Clickable URL per slide — Set link, choose target tab, optional nofollow
- Drag-to-reorder slides in the editor (mouse, touch or keyboard)
- Duplicate a slide or a whole slider with one click
- Live preview in the slide editor
- Click-to-copy shortcode and PHP code
