MetaSlider is the leading slideshow plugin for WordPress, so most of our work revolves around images, videos, and other file types. One reason that people love WordPress is that you can upload almost any kind of media to make your site look exciting. I’m going to explain what file types are allowed in WordPress. We’ll…
We had a question from a MetaSlider user who wanted to build a slideshow that uses the full height and width of the screen. In the image below, you can see that the slideshow works as normal with Previous and Next arrows, navigation, and more. However, the slideshow is the only thing visible on the…
This week we had an interesting question from a MetaSlider user. Their MetaSlider slideshow was working perfectly. However, when they uploaded one new image, that image would not show. The user had tested carefully and realized that the problem only happened when using a browser with the Adblock Plus browser extension. We talked with this…
Divi is one of the most popular themes in WordPress and MetaSlider is the most popular slideshow plugin. So naturally, they make a great combination. The Divi theme is a popular and versatile premium WordPress theme developed by Elegant Themes. Divi is famous for its visual page builder. This allows you to create complex layouts…
We recently had a question about Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project from a MetaSlider user. They wanted to know if we supported MetaSlider slideshows in AMP. Our answer was “no”. MetaSlider is a very fastest WordPress slideshow plugin. We don’t think you need AMP also. The key reason we don’t support AMP is because…
MetaSlider Pro has a feature that allows you to add captions to videos hosted inside WordPress and videos hosted externally. In this guide, I’ll give you some helpful background to show how video captions work and what you need to know when adding them to your videos.
The WordPress community has been working hard on version 6.4, which is now available. Over the last few WordPress releases, we’ve seen some great new media features, including duotone filters, aspect ratios, and the Openverse integration. We’re likely to see more media improvements in Gutenberg Phase 3. WordPress 6.4 gives us a new lightbox feature…