MetaSlider Has New Themes, Design Features, and Video Upgrades

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 this guide, I’ll show you what’s new in these releases.

Theme Color Controls

In this release, you’ll find new customization controls under several themes. You can now choose the color for the theme’s arrows, navigation, and captions. We’ve made this available for four themes. In the next release, we’ll add these controls to the other themes. We’re also going to add color controls for more theme features, such as the “Auto Play” button.

Here’s a video guide to this new feature:

New Nexus Theme

There’s a new theme called “Nexus” available in both the Free and Pro versions of MetaSlider. This theme has a stylish new effect for the arrows. These arrows will slide when you hover over them. We’ve also added a button that is very easy to configure.

To make this button work, click the “Link” tab and add the URL and button text.

New Hero Theme

For MetaSlider Pro users, there’s a new theme called “Hero”. This theme emphasizes the active slide by scaling it larger than the surrounding slides, creating a hero-like focal point that draws the viewer’s attention.

Here’s a video guide to this new Hero feature:

Show or Hide Arrows on Hover

In MetaSlider Free and Pro, it’s now possible to choose how arrows appear on your slideshow. You can set them to “Hidden” or “Visible”. You can also decide to use the new “Visible on Hover” option so the arrows appear when visitors hover over your slideshow.

New Layer Slide Improvements: Image vs Video

With the Layer Slides option in MetaSlider Pro, it’s now easier to choose the background behind your layers. You can choose an image, an external video, or a local video. Whatever you choose will be the background, and then you can add text, buttons, animations, and more on top of the image or video.

Captions for Local and External Videos

In MetaSlider Pro, it’s now possible to add captions to both Local Video Slides and External Video Slides. You will find a “Captions” tab where you can add text over your videos. This is different from the video text tracks that act more like subtitles for videos.

New Demos for Videos and TikTok

Finally, in MetaSlider Pro, you’ll find new sample slideshows for Local Video slides and TikTok slides.

What’s Next for MetaSlider?

We aim to release monthly updates to MetaSlider. In recent months we’ve added support for TikTok, plus Play / Pause buttons and we also introduced new themes and accessibility features.

Our goal for next month will be to improve on these new theme features and add them to more themes. That means we’ll have more themes with the new color controls, buttons, and navigation options.