Responsive WordPress Slider – HG Slider
A responsive image rotator plugin that easily creates WordPress slideshows. Now 100% Organic!
3.8(12 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Responsive WordPress Slider is a WordPress slider plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 57K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
3.8/512 reviews
7.0K+active installs
57K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
HG Slider creates a new ‘Slides’ area in your WordPress admin and allows you to easily setup multiple sliders around your site. It uses the standard WordPress user interface so you (and your clients) will know how to use it instantly.
It has a full interface for creating Sliders and can simply put but anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
looks good but difficult to size
by jmill23·10 years ago
Simple to set up and looks great.
Found the template sizes for the slider odd and only one worked – the rest result in a stretch or distorted images.
Tried inline css using a div to control the size but can’t seem to reduce the height.
Plugin continues to improve!
by elainevdw·11 years ago
I’ve been using this plugin since it was “Responsive Slider for Developers” — it was easy to customize on a client per-client basis, and was always very stable and easy for both me to set up and the client to use.
On my latest project, I found this updated version and decided to give it a try rather than just copying over my hacked-up version of Responsive Slider for Developers.
I’m super happy with the new and improved HG Flexslider! Haven’t had to mess with the plugin code at all, plus the new feature for adding a flexslider of page attachments to any page using the [flexslider] shortcode came in SUPER handy, saving me tons of development time in enabling flexslider-style galleries on Pages that mimic the look and feel of the home page flexslider. I didn’t even know that was a feature TBH, I just popped a [flexslider] shortcode in a page to see what happened, and BAM, all my gallery images were there.
Gotta love it when that happens.
In any case, best no-frills, easy to implement slider out there, IMO.
doesnt work sorry
by mewrd·11 years ago
the shordcode doesnt activate the slider
qtranslate conflict since 1 year
by vangod·11 years ago
The hg slider disappear when language switched on page.
The plugin not working with qtranslate since 1 year, sad that the developers could not fix the problem.
Easy to set up. Good job
by newflorida·12 years ago
This plugin was easy to setup. I converted to use in my theme as a function instead of a plugin in no time. Thanks.
Download Trends
Today: 2Yesterday: 10This week: 26Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
88.8%
v2.1
10.8%
v1.3
0.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.1
- Added ‘Open Links in New Window’ Setting to Sliders and Individual Slides
- Updated language text domain from flexslider_hg to flexslider-hg
- Admin labels select radio buttons and checkboxes
Contributors
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