When you’re building a WordPress website, it’s really important to have good images. If you’re a photographer, you can create your own images. But often you need to rely on someone else. If you live in the mountains and want to write about the beach, you need to get a photo from someone else. That’s…
We had an interesting question from a MetaSlider user recently. They wanted to build an image carousel for their client. They followed our slider carousel guide and everything was working correctly. However, the client had an extra request. They wanted to show the carousel with partial images on either side. In the screenshot below, you…
Sixteen years after its release, WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world and currently powers around one-third of all sites on the web. As WordPress become more popular, it increasingly draws the attention of hackers who are eager to access the valuable information contained within a website, which in turn…
If you go to WordPress.org, you will find two stock photo libraries, which are both great resources for your WordPress posts, galleries, and slideshows. The “WordPress Photo Directory” is a new project run by the WordPress community and has 1,000’s of photos for you to use in projects. The URL for this directory is https://wordpress.org/photos/.
Unsplash is one of the most popular stock photo sites in the world. The site has an ethos of sharing that is similar to the WordPress community. Photographers from all over the world upload their photos and allow you to re-use those photos on your projects. Unsplash started in 2013 and has grown steadily over…
If you run a WordPress site that publishes fresh content, it’s important to make it look great for your visitors. With MetaSlider Pro, you can display your posts in a slideshow. You can customize this WordPress post slideshow in hundreds of ways so it exactly matches the style of your site.
We are often asked at MetaSlider if it is possible to build a slideshow using a variety of image orientations. People want to do this because they have some images in portrait mode and some in landscape. These images have different orientations and different sizes. The answer is “Yes, this is possible”.