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 and photo sliders. MetaSlider also builds video sliders from the videos in your WordPress
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
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About this tool.
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 and photo sliders. MetaSlider also builds video sliders from the videos in your WordPress media library. MetaSlider Slideshow Pro adds support for more video sources (YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, and external), layer slides, WooCommerce products, custom HTML, single post, post feed sliders and more!
Introducing MetaSlider
With MetaSlider and MetaSlider Slideshow 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 Slideshow Pro
If you’re looking for further customization, MetaSlider Slideshow Pro offers even more powerful features.
YouTube, Vimeo, and TikTok video slides : Easily include responsive high definition YouTube, Vimeo and TikTok videos in your slideshows.
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.
External Video slides : Create your slideshows with videos from almost any external service.
Stylish, premium themes : MetaSlider Slideshow Pro provides stylish and exclusive themes for your slideshows.
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 Slideshow 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
Image slides make 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 MetaSlider. 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 library, add the captions you want, set SEO fields and adjust the settings to display the image slideshow just how you like it. Take it further with MetaSlider Slideshow Pro and use the Theme Editor to change the look of the navigation, the arrows, and the captions.
YouTube, Vimeo and TikTok Video Sliders
With MetaSlider Slideshow Pro you can easily include responsive high definition YouTube, Vimeo and TikTok 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 slide , Vimeo slide or TikTok slide and MetaSlider will add it to your slider, slideshow, or carousel. Either create a slide show full of your favorite videos or mix it in between slides of other types to get just the result that you want.
Local and External Video Sliders
Local Video slides are included in MetaSlider. With Local Video slides you can build beautiful slideshows with videos in your WordPress media library. External Video slides are included in MetaSlider Slideshow Pro , and let you create slideshows with videos hosted outside of your WordPress site.
Both slide types display your MP4, WebM, and MOV videos with cover images, auto play, mute, lazy load, the ability to hide controls, and much more.
You can also add video captions to Local Video and External Video slides. 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 Slideshow 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 customize 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 Slideshow 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 Image Sliders
With MetaSlider Slideshow 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 Free and Pro MetaSlider plugins 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.
Accessible Slideshows
The MetaSlider team works really hard to make sure the plugin is accessible for people using screen readers and/or people with disabilities. If you see any way that we can improve our support for accessible users, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. See all our accessible slideshow features .
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 in the Free or Pro version. Your images, photos, videos, layer, products, and posts will load incredibly quickly.
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 Slideshow Pro you can create unlimited themes and preview them on-the-fly.
Thumbnail Navigation (Pro) : MetaSlider Slideshow 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 Slideshow Pro introduces the MetaSlider Theme Editor. MetaSlider Slideshow Pro include many free professional and responsive slideshow themes for sliders, slideshows, and carousels. These themes enable you to effortlessly create beautiful and effective sliders, slideshows, and carousels designed by pro
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
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Getting started.
The easy way:
01Go to the Plugins Menu in WordPress
02Search for “MetaSlider”
03Click “Install”
The manual way:
04Upload the ml-slider folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
05Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
06Manage your slideshows using the ‘MetaSlider’ menu option
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Frequently asked questions.
My slider is not working. What can I do?
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.
Click here for steps to troubleshoot sliders
An image slide is not appearing in my slider
If a slide is not showing in your MetaSlider slideshow, this guide has some suggestions for common troubleshooting steps:
Click here for steps to troubleshoot image sliders
How do I create a full width slider?
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.
Read the guide for full-width sliders
How do I create a full screen slider?
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.
Read the guide for full-screen sliders
How do I change the CSS for MetaSlider sliders?
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 Slideshow 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.
Read the guide to changing slider CSS
How to I add captions or subtitles to MetaSlider videos?
You can add video captions to Local Video slides, and to External Video slides created with MetaSlider Slideshow 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.
Read the guide to video captions
Can I create image sliders with MetaSlider?
Yes, image sliders are the most popular way to use MetaSlider. Image slideshows are included in MetaSlider Free and MetaSlider Slideshow Pro. An image carousel will display an image. You can also add other features such as a caption, or a URL link.
Read more about image sliders
It’s also possible to build on your image slider and create a carousel slideshow with several images to be visible in the display at the same time.
See more about carousel image sliders
Can I create Vimeo sliders with MetaSlider?
Yes, Vimeo Slideshows are included in MetaSlider Slideshow 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.
Read more about Vimeo sliders
Can I create YouTube sliders with MetaSlider?
Yes, YouTube Slideshows are included in MetaSlider Slideshow 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.
Read more about YouTube sliders
Can MetaSlider create sliders for other plugins?
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 Slideshow 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 Slideshow 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.
Read the guide to sliders on specific posts
Can I create External URL sliders with MetaSlider?
Yes, External URL image Slideshows are included in MetaSlider Slideshow Pro. External URL carousels allow you to load images directly from a non-WordPress sources such as CDNs or image hosts.
Read more about External URL sliders
Can I create Post Feed sliders with MetaSlider?
Yes, Post Feed Slides are included in MetaSlider Slideshow 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”.
Read more about Post Feed sliders
Can I create Layer sliders with MetaSlider?
Yes, Layer Slides are included in MetaSlider Slideshow 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.
Read more about Layer sliders
What’s the correct spelling of MetaSlider?
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.
Envira Gallery, FooGallery, and Modula 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.
Where do I send security reports?
You can email security@metaslider.com. You can also submit patches via Wordfence and Patchstack. Our Wordfence code is kznqwzcbuliukyojtqqkrzpmmrwmrbry.
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