When you visit YouTube these days, you’re likely to see a mix of different types of videos. In previous years, YouTube was dominated by horizontal videos that had the same appearance as a traditional TV screen. These videos normally had an aspect ratio of 16:9 which created a horizontal layout. MetaSlider Pro has always supported…
MetaSlider is the most popular slideshow plugin for WordPress and it integrates closely with WooCommerce, the most popular eCommerce option for WordPress. In this guide, I’ll show you how to create a slideshow of WooCommerce products using MetaSlider Pro. This slideshow will update automatically showing the products in the WooCommerce categories you choose.
MetaSlider 3.29 is available and it brings two big improvements that users have been requesting. The first improvement is a “Quick Start” screen that makes it really easy to get started with a sample slideshow. With one click, you can create an image slider, a carousel, or a carousel with text captions. Second, there’s now…
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/.