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Bensam Slider

Enhance Elementor with customizable hero sliders, review carousels, and portfolio showcases, featuring responsive design, animations, and hover effects.

by Bensam Mwaniki · github.com/bensammwaniki/slider-plugin-2.0

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/bensammwaniki/slider-plugin-2.0/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Readme

=== Daily Slider === Contributors: wpcoder75 Tags: elementor, slider, carousel, marquee, hero-slider Requires at least: 5.0 Tested up to: 6.8 Stable Tag: 1.7.1 Requires PHP: 7.4 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Powerful Elementor addon with customizable hero sliders, review carousels, and portfolio showcases featuring responsive design and smooth animations.

== Description ==

DailySlider is a powerful Elementor addon that adds feature-rich slider and carousel widgets to create stunning hero sections, testimonials, and portfolios with ease.

DailySlider is a versatile Elementor addon plugin that allows you to create stunning sliders, carousels, and showcases on your website. Whether you're looking to add a hero section, a testimonial carousel, or a portfolio gallery, DailySlider offers a set of highly customizable and responsive widgets that integrate seamlessly with Elementor. Enhance your website's visual appeal with smooth animations and engaging hover effects for a dynamic user experience.

Key Features:

  • Fully responsive design ensuring your sliders look great on all devices (desktop, tablet, mobile)
  • Pixel Widget (Hero Slider): Create full-screen, attention-grabbing hero sliders with cleaner Elementor control grouping and transition modes including Slide, Fade, Smooth Fade, Cube, Flip, and Coverflow.
  • Review Carousel Widget (Testimonial Carousel): Display customer reviews and testimonials in an interactive carousel format.
  • Eldorado Widget (Image Carousel): Showcase portfolio items or images in a stylish and sleek carousel layout.
  • Skyboot Portfolio Widget: Filterable masonry/grid portfolio gallery with image, video, and external link items.
  • Marquee Slider Widget: Create smooth scrolling marquee effects for displaying logos, testimonials, or any content in a continuous loop.
  • Customization options for text, images, spacing, colors, and typography.
  • Lean frontend behavior with simplified widget initialization logic to reduce bloat while preserving existing functionality.
  • Seamless integration with Elementor's drag-and-drop editor for easy design.

This plugin is perfect for creating stunning sliders that elevate your website's aesthetic and functionality with minimal effort.

== Widgets ==

  • Pixel (Hero Slider)

    • A full-screen hero slider widget designed to display your most important content in an eye-catching manner.
    • Ideal for showcasing high-quality images or videos with smooth animations.
  • Review Carousel (Testimonial Carousel)

    • Display customer testimonials in a dynamic carousel layout.
    • Helps you highlight positive reviews and build trust with potential customers.
  • Eldorado (Image Carousel)

    • An elegant image carousel widget designed for portfolio showcases, photography galleries, or any image-based content.
  • Marquee Slider

    • A smooth scrolling marquee widget perfect for displaying logos, testimonials, announcements, or any content in a continuous loop.
    • Features customizable speed, direction, pause on hover, and edge masking effects.
  • Skyboot Portfolio

    • A portfolio gallery widget with masonry/grid layouts, filter categories, lightbox support, and mixed media items.

== Installation ==

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/daily-slider directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen.
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress.
  3. Open the Elementor Editor and find the DailySlider widgets under the Elementor Widgets panel.
  4. Drag and drop your desired widget (Pixel, Review Carousel, Eldorado, Marquee Slider, or Skyboot Portfolio) into your page and start customizing.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Can I use these widgets on mobile devices? = Yes, all widgets are fully responsive and optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. You can customize how they look on each device for a seamless experience.

= Does this plugin require Elementor? = Yes, this plugin is an Elementor extension and works only with the Elementor page builder. Make sure Elementor is installed and activated before using this plugin.

= Can I customize the animations and effects? = Yes, the plugin provides options to customize animations, hover effects, and transitions for all widgets, allowing you to create unique and interactive content.

== Changelog == = Unreleased [27th May 2026] =

  • Reorganized Pixel widget controls so content/behavior controls stay in Content and visual controls stay in Style
  • Added Pixel transition options with Smooth Fade and configurable fade cross-fade behavior
  • Added Pixel transition timing-function control and Pause on Hover control for autoplay
  • Added Pixel per-slide media type support (image or video) with automatic muted autoplay for video slides
  • Simplified Pixel widget JavaScript initialization to reduce bloat while keeping Elementor editor/live parity
  • Removed unused Pixel control definitions and fixed minor control label/placement inconsistencies
  • Merged Skyboot Portfolio widget into this plugin package so it can be used as part of a single Elementor addon

= 1.7.1 [11th April 2026] =

  • Improved Elementor editor/frontend initialization consistency for slider widgets
  • Reduced marquee and carousel re-initialization overhead to improve editor performance
  • Updated Pixel overlay controls to keep color/gradient overlay and remove image overlay option

= 1.7.0 [27th August 2025] =

  • Fixed marquee slider animation glitch on mobile devices
  • Fixed responsive layout issues in Review Carousel widget
  • Fixed compatibility issues with latest WordPress version

= 1.7.0 [31th January 2025] =

  • Added Marquee Slider Widget with smooth scrolling animations, customizable speed, direction, and pause on hover functionality.
  • Enhanced marquee widget with edge masking effects and responsive design.
  • Improved overall plugin stability and performance.

= 1.5 [31th January 2025] =

  • Added hover transform scale effect to Eldorado Widget, for improved image interaction.

= 1.0.0 [28th January 2025] =

  • Initial release of the DailySlider Elementor Plugin with the following widgets:
    • Pixel: Full-screen hero slider
    • Review Carousel: Dynamic testimonial showcase
    • Eldorado: Portfolio and image carousel
    • Marquee Slider: Smooth scrolling marquee effects

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.0.0 =

  • Initial release. No upgrade necessary.

== Screenshots ==

  1. Pixel Widget: Full-screen hero slider showcasing high-quality images.
  2. Review Carousel Widget: Display customer reviews in an interactive, visually appealing format.
  3. Eldorado Widget: Portfolio and image carousel for showcasing projects and images.

== License ==

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 (or later) license. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Read the full README on GitHub →