Smart Slider 3 Pro

Create and publish responsive sliders

Smart Slider 3 Pro lets you build picture, video, post, and layered sliders in WordPress. Start with a blank slider, a template, or a pre-made slide from the Slide Library. In the live editor, arrange layers in rows and columns or position them freely. Default-positioned layers generally provide better responsive behavior; absolute positioning is suited to decorative elements.

Choose a full-width or boxed layout, or use the full-page responsive layout. Adjust the styling for mobile, tablet, and desktop screens. Visitors can navigate with touch swipes, scrolling, or a keyboard. Add the finished slider to a site with a shortcode, widget, WordPress block, or supported page builder.

Layer content, animation, and controls

Slides can contain headings, text, pictures, buttons, Vimeo videos, and YouTube videos. Pro includes 18 extra layers, an animation builder, and a live animation timeline. Adaptive font sizing and device-specific layer visibility help tailor layers to different screen sizes. The font and style manager handles typography and visual styling.

Choose horizontal, vertical, or fade slide transitions, and use background animations, including more than 54 settings. The built-in lightbox presents visual content separately. Controls include arrows, bullets, autoplay, bars, and thumbnails, with additional presets, shadows, static overlays, slide thumbnails, and autoplay timing options.

Use WordPress content and connected sources

Pro dynamic sources can turn site content into slides. WordPress custom post types can be filtered by custom taxonomy or selected posts. WooCommerce products can be filtered by category, tag, featured status, stock status, or downloadable status. Gallery sources display selected images with related metadata.

Event sources work with All-in-One Event Calendar, Events Manager, and The Events Calendar. Social sources include Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and Pinterest. These sources can populate sliders for products, events, posts, galleries, or social content.

WordPress integration

The extension integrates with the WordPress media manager, post permalinks, and post editor. Supported page builders include Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Page Builder by SiteOrigin, Visual Composer, WPBakery Page Builder, and Gutenberg. Smart Slider 3 Pro is described as compatible with WordPress Multisite and any WordPress theme.

To set up a slider, open the Smart Slider interface and create one from a template, pre-made slide, or blank layout. Add media or a dynamic source, arrange the layers, configure responsive behavior and controls, then publish it through a WordPress integration.