About two years, ago we took over running MetaSlider and had an interesting challenge. The slideshow plugin was really popular with 100,000’s of users. Many MetaSlider users had the plugin installed for over ten years. But the plugin was also in need of a refresh. Because people relied on the plugin’s features, we soon learned…
There are some great new updates for MetaSlider available now. You’ll find new themes, new ways to customize the themes, and some stylish video improvements. We’re building the most user-friendly slideshow plugin in WordPress, and this is another step towards that goal. You can now upgrade to MetaSlider Free 3.91 and MetaSlider Pro 2.40. In…
MetaSlider has support for many types of video slideshows. You can host videos in your site’s media library. You can also use third party services such as YouTube and Vimeo. However, some MetaSlider customers prefer to use their own video hosting. This is possible with the External Video feature. These videos are hosted on another…
Accessibility is an important topic for WordPress developers. We want our websites and plugins to be helpful to as many people as possible. If we build accessible websites, that means that people with disabilities can use them. People with disabilities interact with websites in various ways. Some use screen readers that convert text into spoken…
When you use MetaSlider, you have many different options for creating stylish slideshows. MetaSlider has dozens of theme options to suit every kind of site. However, MetaSlider Pro also allows you to create completely new themes that can easily be added to new slideshows. We’ll show you how it’s done in this guide. If you’re…
In this guide, we’ll explain how WordPress handles HEIC images. Since 2017, Apple has used the HEIC format to store images. If you have an Apple device, your images are probably stored as HEIC files. However, HEIC images are not supported by many browsers, and so this can cause problems if you’re uploading photos from…
We had an interesting question from a MetaSlider customer this week. They wanted a standard image carousel, but with a large hero image. Normally a carousel will show multiple images. This customer wanted smaller images on the left and right, with a larger central image. In a previous tutorial, we showed how to use partial…