With MetaSlider you are able to add local videos, YouTube videos, and Vimeo videos to slideshows. All of these video options look great on desktop and mobile devices. They also come with a range of options including “Auto play”. This image below shows the settings for a local video slide containing “Auto play” in the…
MetaSlider Pro 2.26.0 has big improvements to the Theme Editor feature. The Theme Editor allows you to create completely new themes that can easily be added to your slideshows. MetaSlider provides a good number of default themes, but the Theme Editor feature allows you to build many more. You can use the Theme Editor to…
WordPress 6.3 introduced an important change to how you add images to WordPress. If you’re using the block editor, you are now able to choose aspect ratios for your images. This screenshot below shows the previous image block on the left, and the new block on the right. There are now seven different aspect ratios…
Finding good images is really hard! When you click an “Image” button in WordPress, you will only see the images that you uploaded. If you want to find new images, you need to leave your WordPress site. There are some great, free stock photo sources including Unsplash.com and Pexels.com. But these sites do not integrate…
We had a question from a MetaSlider Pro user who wondered about the different types of navigation available for their slideshows. In MetaSlider Free, the default option is “Dots“. This will provide large dots that visitors can use to navigate through your slideshow. This screenshot below shows the “Dots” option. You can install this same…
WordPress really introduced many people to a new image feature called “Duotone filters”. This feature is now very prominent when you add images in the block editor. In this guide, we’ll introduce you to Duotone images and how to use them in WordPress. In previous versions of WordPress, the Duotone icon was a dashed circle….
We are at the beginning of an exciting, new phase of WordPress development. Over the last several years, the WordPress team has been working hard to provide a new block system for creating WordPress posts and themes. The main part of that effort is now complete, and we’re entering a new phase. Here at MetaSlider,…