Lightweight Slider
Lightweight image slider.
5(2 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Lightweight Slider is a WordPress simple plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Catch IDs.
5/52 reviews
10active installs
1.3K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
Lightweight Slider is a free and extremely lightweight responsive image slider which uses custom post types and featured images. An easy to use settings page allows full control over slide height, delay between slides, transition duration and animation type.
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Features
- Extremely lightweight (less than 25kb!)
- Easy set up using custom post types and featured images
- Optional pagination and navigation controls
- Adjustable delay and transition time between slides
- Choose between fade or slide animation
- Fully responsive
- Semantic, minimal HTML
- No external resources loaded
- Simple to modify (plugin consists of only three main files)
Limitations
In order to keep this plugin as lightweight as possible it was necessary to make some compromises during development.
- Thi…
Ratings & Reviews
52 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 5.3.21 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release of the plugin
Contributors
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