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
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.zipReadme
=== 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 ==
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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.
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Review Carousel (Testimonial Carousel)
- Display customer testimonials in a dynamic carousel layout.
- Helps you highlight positive reviews and build trust with potential customers.
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Eldorado (Image Carousel)
- An elegant image carousel widget designed for portfolio showcases, photography galleries, or any image-based content.
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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.
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Skyboot Portfolio
- A portfolio gallery widget with masonry/grid layouts, filter categories, lightbox support, and mixed media items.
== Installation ==
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/daily-sliderdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress.
- Open the Elementor Editor and find the DailySlider widgets under the Elementor Widgets panel.
- 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 ==
- Pixel Widget: Full-screen hero slider showcasing high-quality images.
- Review Carousel Widget: Display customer reviews in an interactive, visually appealing format.
- 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.