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https://smartslider3.com/blog/what-is-a-slider/ Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:00:55 +0000 https://smartslider3.com/?post_type=blog&p=9831 Sliders. Carousels. Slideshows. No matter what you call them, sliders are an incredibly versatile design tool that allow you to showcase images, video, and other content beautifully and more effectively while maximizing the space on your website. Whether you need a simple way to display a slideshow of photos on an eCommerce or real estate […]

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]]> Sliders. Carousels. Slideshows. No matter what you call them, sliders are an incredibly versatile design tool that allow you to showcase images, video, and other content beautifully and more effectively while maximizing the space on your website.

Whether you need a simple way to display a slideshow of photos on an eCommerce or real estate websites, or want a bold video header with calls-to-action, sliders can help you quickly grab your visitors’ attention.

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In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into sliders, using examples from Smart Slider 3, a popular slider plugin for WordPress. We’ll explore what they are, how they’re used, the various kinds of sliders you can create, as well as all the different types of behaviors, elements, animations and effects you can include in your sliders.

What is a Slider?

The term slider is used for a design element, which is added to a WordPress page to display visual content. From classic image slideshows to modern fullscreen sliders, sliders come in all shapes and sizes. Using the right WordPress slider plugin, it’s easy to create your own sliders.

Designers love sliders for their flexibility and the visual elements that make it easy to tell a compelling story. Site owners, on the other hand, love them because they can promote multiple facets of a business within one website component and space. At their most basic, an image slideshow might contain a series of images, each with its own caption, like this example:

But in recent years, sliders have evolved to provide greater functionality and feature beyond simple images and text. Now, you can add video, use layers to combine images, text, and buttons, and even include a mix of elements and animations — all within the same slider.

Let’s take a look at a few modern examples.

Amazon uses sliders liberally throughout its site to promote its products. On the homepage, there’s a slider with featured products, as well as several small sliders below with best sellers.

In this example, Airbnb uses a slider on its homepage to display cities were people can book short stay accommodation around the world:

And in this more complex example, Lonely Planet uses a fullscreen homepage slider incorporating navigation and text previews to showcase its latest featured articles:

These are just some of the big brands using sliders to showcase their best content while maximizing all-important screen space.

But it’s not just big brands using sliders. Sliders are easy to add to any WordPress site, and there are plenty of options out there, particularly for WordPress users.

How Do Sliders Work with WordPress?

Adding sliders to your WordPress site is as easy as installing and activating a plugin, and then using the provided visual builder to design your slider.

There are many WordPress slider plugins available, which allow you to create sliders and add them to any page or post on your site. You can download free slider plugins from WordPress.org. Below, you’ll see Smart Slider 3 is the highest rated slider plugin for WordPress:

There are also many premium slider plugins available for WordPress, such as Smart Slider 3 Pro and Revolution Slider, the latter of which is packaged with many ThemeForest themes.

Typically, free slider plugins offer only basic features, such as the ability to create image sliders with captions and simple transitions. When you upgrade to a premium slider plugin, you can start building more complex sliders using layers, images, text, videos, CTAs, animations, and more.

Types of Sliders

There are several different types of slider, each of which provides the structure for a slider, on top of which you can add other elements. These are the types of sliders you will find in Smart Slider 3:

• Standard – Also known as a slideshow, this type of slider enables you to display several images, one at a time.
• Carousel – This type of slider displays two or more images at a time, which users can cycle through.
• Showcase – This type of slider lets you put the focus on one image, but also give a sneak peek at other images in the series.
• Block – A content block features just one slide but can include many different elements (text, image, video, etc), animations and effects.

Types of Slider Layouts

In addition to slider types, there are different slider layouts that determine how a slider type will look on a web page.

• Boxed – This is the most typical type of layout you’ll come across on the web, such as an on eCommerce site displaying product items. It makes the slider fit into its container.
• Full width – Display a slider across the entire width of a page.
• Full page – This fullscreen layout fills the entire page above-the-fold.

Working with Slider Layers

Free slider plugins (with the exception of Smart Slider 3) allow you to create only basic slideshows using images and text. Premium slider plugins, on the other hand, let you design to your heart’s content with layers.

Layers are basically content building block that you can add to sliders to create more functional, beautiful, and complex designs. Similarly, Photoshop and other image editing programs use layers to enable users to stack and work with different types of content.

The most basic layers you’ll find in premium slider plugins include: Headings, Text, Images, Buttons and Videos (YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted).

Some premium and advanced sliders may also offer other types of content layers, such as: Icons, Lists, Captions, Image boxes (and image areas), Transitions, Progress bars, Counters (and circle counters), Audio, Text areas and iFrame.

The best way to fully understand how layers work is to see them in action. Check out the video below to see how layers work in the free version of Slider Slider 3.

Adding Animations and Effects to Sliders

You’re probably familiar with the default right to left slide background animation that many images slideshows use when transitioning through images. But what’s exciting about working with sliders is that there are many more awesome animations and effects you can use to add both bold and subtle effects to your website.

Background Animations

Whether you want to fade, rotate, zoom, or have your images metaphorically explode, there are dozens of different background animations you can use for transitions between each slide.

Layer Animations

Similar to background animations, layer animations enabled you to animate particular layers in your slider, such as the button animation below.

Text Animations

With text animations you can animate your words and bring text to life as a chain of lines, words, or characters.

Ken Burns Effect

Make your slides pop with this elegant zooming and panning Ken Burns effect, invented for film. A simple way to give your images the illusion of motion.

Parallax

Add depth to your sliders—or, at least, the illusion of it—with parallax. Parallax images move at different speeds and create an optical illusion of depth.

Animated shape divider

Add moving curves, clouds, and diagonal shapes to your sliders with an animated shape divider effect.

Particle effect

Stunning yet deceptively simple. Using the particle effect allows you to add moving shapes and lines, dots, triangles, and polygons that follow the cursor

Creating Sliders: Features and Functionality to Look Out for When Choosing a WordPress Slider Plugin

Now that you’ve got a basic understanding of the different types and behaviors of sliders, as well as layers, animations, and effects, it’s time to look at some of the advanced features you can expect to see in reputable WordPress slider plugins.

From different types of content and dynamic elements to performance and optimization capabilities, these are the features you should look out for when choosing a quality slider plugin.

Visual Editor

Every good slider plugin should come with a visual editor that allows you to design each individual slide, much like how you would with Photoshop and other image editing programs.

Visual editor allows you to drag-and-drop layers, change fonts, sizes, colors, add animations and effects, and generally manipulate the content in your slides to look exactly how you want.

Layers and Customization

Imagine if Photoshop didn’t have layers? It would be difficult to design and edit images, right? Surprisingly, many slider plugins don’t use layers. Without them, you’re severely limited in how you can design your plugins.

Layers allow you to create content-rich sliders, which might have various images, text, video, and other elements layered together to form one interactive slide.

When choosing a slider plugin, make sure it includes the most basic layers (headings, text, images, video, and buttons), as well as any advanced content you might need, such as icons, audio, lists, and counters.

Live Preview

Like any software, live preview allows you to quickly see every change you make in real-time. For example, after updating an image or adding a text layer or transition, you can click ‘Preview’ to quickly preview your changes and see what your slider looks like with all over your layers, animations and effects working together.

Dynamic Content

You aren’t limited to adding just static images, video, and text to your slides. Some slider plugins, like Smart Slider 3, allow you to populate slides with dynamic content, such as WordPress and Joomla blog posts, YouTube playlists, and even products from your WooCommerce site.

This means you can dynamically display content, such as your eCommerce store’s best-selling products, your latest blog posts, or even new video additions to your YouTube channel.

Page Builder Compatible

If you’ve built your site using a page builder, such as Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, Site Origin or WP Bakery Page Builder, be sure to check that any slider plugin you choose is compatible.

Responsive Design

Ensuring that your site design is responsive is crucial now that Google has moved to mobile-first indexing. So choose a slider plugin that provides responsive design out-of-the-box.

Some sliders, like Smart Slider 3, provide device-specific settings for desktop, tablet and mobile. This means your sliders will automatically adjust for different devices. You can choose to enable features like tilt and swipe, or simply turn off sliders for particular devices.

Support and Updates

Premium slider plugins should always come with priority support, so if you run into any issues you can get in touch for help. Support generally doesn’t come with free slider plugins, though you can use the WordPress Support Forums if you have any questions.

Keeping your slider plugin up-to-date is also important for security and performance, and so you can upgrade to receive new features.

Speed and Performance

There’s a common perception that sliders negatively impact website performance. Often, people add images to sliders that are too big or haven’t been optimized. So if a slider plugin further impacts performance, it’s a double whammy for page load speed.

It’s important that your slides load immediately but don’t slow down the loading of your pages, so look out for slider plugins that offer image optimization such as generating smaller images for tablet and mobile visitors and converting the images to WebP for faster load time. The ability to lazy load some of the images is another great feature to have. Both of these techniques will help your slides load quickly.

SEO-Friendly

When you’re adding different types of content such as images and video to your sliders, it makes sense to leverage it for SEO, right? So when choosing a slider plugin, make sure it’s been designed with SEO in mind and its HTML structure follow SEO best practice. This will ensure your individual slides—along with the alt text you have entered for your content—ranks in search.

Developer-Friendly

If you want even more control over the design of your slides, look for a slider plugin that’s developer-friendly and allows for custom code within slides, but also allows you to edit external files for customizations like animations and effects.

Conclusion

Now that you learned all there is to know about sliders and how they work with WordPress, you’re ready to start creating your own! As I mentioned above, there are some great free options, but I’d highly recommend starting out with Smart Slider 3, which you can download from WordPress.org.

Smart Slider 3 comes with loads of features and options (including everything mentioned in this article and more). Check out these stunning slider examples and download Smart Slider 3 for free to get started.

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1. Default and Absolute layers

There are two different visual ways in Smart Slider 3 to create content: using Default and Absolute layers. It’s these innovative editing options that set this plugin apart from the competition and help make it the easiest to use slider plugin for WordPress.

Working with Default layers is like working with a page builder. You can use columns and rows to quickly build your slides, and with a clean design that’s fully responsive.

Working with Absolute layers, you have the freedom to work with layers unobstructed, much like you would in Photoshop. You can place your layers anywhere you like and even position them on top of each other to create stunning sliders with dynamic effects.

2. Rich Layers

Imagine if Photoshop didn’t have layers. It would be difficult to design and edit images, right? Surprisingly, many slider plugins don’t offer layers, which severely limits what you can do with your slider designs.

Not Smart Slider 3, though — it’s the most advanced slider plugin when it comes to layers, boasting 21 different layers, which you can use to create a professional and good-looking layer slider.

3. Extensive Slide library

Whether you’re time poor, have no idea what you’re doing when it comes to design, or just need a kick-start with designing your slides, Smart Slider 3 Pro comes with a stack of beautifully designed templates that you can customize with your own content.

The Slide Library comes with 100+ pre-designed slides for everything from product sliders and hero headers to magazine layouts, and testimonials.

4. Impressive Template Collection

In addition to the extensive Slide Library, Smart Slider 3 Pro also has a huge collection of professionally designed slider templates, which you can also browse and import. The template collection includes customizable slider, block, and page templates.

Once you’ve imported a template, you can change the colors, fonts, layers and more to suit your website. If you’re new to Smart Slider 3 Pro, playing with the design of a demo template slider is a great way to learn how the plugin works — and what it’s capable of.

I highly recommend checking out the plugin’s collection of example sliders so you can get a feel for what you can build with Smart Slider 3 Pro.

5. Dynamic Generators

One of Smart Slider 3 Pro’s most useful features is its ability to pull in dynamic content from loads of different sources — 32 sources, in fact — including WordPress posts, WooCommerce products, YouTube, Dribbble, Pinterest and more.

How is this feature useful? Say you wanted to auto-populate your sliders with videos from your YouTube channel, images from your Dribbble portfolio, or photos from your Flickr account. Also you can create a Post slider or a Product slider, which show your latest post or product, and can update itself automatically. You could do all this with Smart Slider 3 Pro.

6. Animations and Effects

Sliders have evolved far beyond the simple image sliders and transitions that dominated websites 10 years ago. What’s exciting about working with sliders now is that there are awesome animations and effects you can use to add both bold and subtle elements to your site.

Here are some of the animations and effects you’ll find in Smart Slider 3 Pro:

Background Animations

Whether you want to fade, zoom, rotate or explode your slides, there are 70+ background animations you can use for the transitions between each slide.

Layer Animations

Similar to background animations, layer animations let you animate the individual layers of your slides which you can cheer up your slider.

Text Animations

With text animations, you can bring your words to life by animating lines, words, or individual characters. A split text animation on your heading layer, or the animated heading attracts the eye and catch the visitor’s attention.

Parallax Effect

Add depth to your sliders — or, at least, the illusion of it — with parallax effect. With parallax enabled, your slides will move at different speeds, creating an optical illusion of depth.

Animated Shape Divider

Add moving curves, clouds, and diagonal shapes to your sliders with the animated shape divider.

Ken Burns Effect

Make your sliders “pop” with this elegant zooming and panning Ken Burns effect, which was originally invented for film. It’s a simple way to give your static images the illusion of motion.

Particle Effect

This effect is stunning yet deceptively simple. The particle effect adds moving shapes and lines, dots, triangles, and polygons that follow the cursor.

7. Responsive Options

With Smart Slider 3 you can create responsive WordPress sliders, so you slider will automatically adjust for different devices. Even the free version of Smart Slider 3 is fully responsive and has a lot of device specific settings. You can set the font sizes to lower or bigger on each device, or set different padding or margins, and wrap after columns value.

Smart Slider 3 Pro features you more responsive options than most of slider plugins. You can define device specific slider sizes, and you can use a different slide background image for desktop, tablet or mobile.

8. Speed and performance

There’s a common misconception that sliders are resource-hungry and negatively impact site performance. While some sliders may well slow down your site, you can rest assured that Smart Slider 3 Pro won’t.

It comes with image optimization (you can optimize and preload images to improve your website’s loading speed), lazy loading and — impressively — script optimization, which boasts efficient code, asynchronous loading, and minification. These features alone are more than you’ll find in any other slider plugin.

9. Developer-Friendly

Smart Slider 3 Pro is intuitive enough for beginners to use, but is also packed with features for developers. In the Pro version you get access to a bunch of advanced options, giving you even more control over your slides.

10. Support and Updates

Last, but not least, one of the best features of Smart Slider 3 is the folks who build and support it. The team at Smart Slider 3 put their heart and soul into this plugin and it shows — from the regular updates to the friendly customer support, you can trust that when you buy this plugin, you’ll be well looked after.

The free version of Smart Slider 3 has a 4.9 out of 5-star rating at WordPress.org. When you scroll through the latest reviews, you can see how much people really love this plugin! When you buy the Pro version, you can be confident that you’ll get even better, faster support.

Conclusion

Smart Slider 3 Pro is the most feature-rich slider plugin for WordPress. But it’s more than just a slider plugin — it’s a visual builder that lets you create sliders, blocks, app showcases, and other page elements for a truly dynamic website.

If you want a slider plugin that’s feature-rich, user-friendly, and optimized for performance, Smart Slider 3 Pro is a popular and versatile option that’s worth checking out.

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https://smartslider3.com/blog/image-slider/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:10:22 +0000 https://smartslider3.com/?post_type=blog&p=15255 Using an Image slider is one of the most popular ways to display multiple images on your website. These galleries are so popular it’s hard to find a WordPress site where isn’t some kind of image carousel. Because of this, there are many free responsive slider plugins available for creating an image slider. What is […]

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]]> Using an Image slider is one of the most popular ways to display multiple images on your website. These galleries are so popular it’s hard to find a WordPress site where isn’t some kind of image carousel. Because of this, there are many free responsive slider plugins available for creating an image slider.

What is an image slider in WordPress?

Image sliders are a nice and convenient way to display many images on your WordPress site. Beautiful images, which are relevant to your site can draw more visitors to your site. Creating an image slider in WordPress is quite an easy task, you just need a good responsive slider plugin.

How to create a responsive image slider?

First, you need to find a good slider plugin. This is probably the hardest step here as you’ll need a plugin, which is easy to use. Your slider plugin also needs to have all features you need. Want to add captions to your image slides? The plugin you pick needs to be able to do that. Do you have coding knowledge? If not, you should look for a plugin where you can build everything visually. To save you from having to look for responsive slider plugins, let me suggest giving Smart Slider 3 a try.

What is Smart Slider 3?

It’s a free slider plugin which you can use to create beautiful sliders. The slider is cross browser, which means desktop browsers are supported. And, of course, the sliders will look great on mobile devices.

Once you have a good image slider plugin at your disposal, you’ve done the hardest part. Now all you need is a set of beautiful images and effective captions. Probably you already have your images ready. If you don’t have images yet, you can get high quality, royalty free images from the following sources: Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels. Be sure to use properly sized, quality images. Your visitors won’t like blurry or badly cropped images. You should also forget about using images which have heavy watermark.

Why should you choose Smart Slider 3 as your image slider solution?

Smart Slider 3 is a premium-like slider plugin, which has an excellent free version. This free version lets you create beautiful image sliders, even with thumbnail images. The big and small images will look nice on every device, which is essential for every website. Smart Slider 3 perfectly integrates with your WordPress site. The interface where you create your sliders is modern and clean. The slider allows you to create unlimited photo sliders and add unlimited images to each slider. You can choose the photos from the WordPress Media Library directly. Then you can set up the slider the way you want it to.

What’s even more, Smart Slider 3 cares about your SEO as well. You can enter the alt description to each added image. Specify the alt at the WordPress media library and Smart Slider loads it when you select the image. Search engines, like Google can easily pick up this alt text. Any other textual content you put on the slider is also crawlable for search engines.

Why should you use thumbnails for navigation?

When an image slider has a lot of photos, it’s hard to reach the desired image fast. While arrow navigation is a common feature for image sliders, it’s not so convenient to reach the last image. The problem with arrows is that the visitor has no idea how many images there are for them to see. Thumbnails do this job nicely and easily while improving the slider’s overall look.

Thumbnails are great for navigation. They make it easy for the visitor to look through the available photos. (Without having to check the images one by one.) Hence they can quickly reach the image they would like to see in the gallery. You can customize the thumbnails to match your site’s layout. By default, the slide background image is used at the thumbnail, but you can upload a custom image.

Boost your image slider with lightbox

You don’t always have enough space on your site to create a large slider. So not every image can show up in it’s full size, the way it could be enjoyed the most. This means you need to make compromises when it comes to your slider size. But you want to allow your visitors to see the large images so you are looking for a lightbox.

The lightbox allows the visitor to click on the image and view it in a larger size. Smart Slider 3 Pro makes it easy to add lightbox, it just takes a couple of clicks. The lightbox you create can show more than just one image, it can be an image gallery as well. You are able to select many images and even switch them without user action. The lightbox supports adding videos from YouTube, Vimeo or your on site as well. You can also create a lightbox slider from your slider background images.

Engage your visitors with a wonderful image carousel

Showing one large image in the slider is good for most cases. But from time to time this kind of simple image slideshow isn’t enough to meet your needs. Smart Slider 3 won’t take away your chance to make your image slider original. It offers not only one, but two options to show more slides at a time. Both the Showcase and the Carousel sliders are responsive and look great on any device. You can even make them full width to fill the entire browser width.

Either the Showcase or the Carousel slider is great to show more images to the visitor. Both allow the visitor to see every image fast. The main difference between these sliders is their responsiveness. When you view a Showcase gallery on a smaller device, you see the same amount of slides, just smaller while a Carousel shows less images without changing their size. Another difference is that Carousel switches all of the visible slides at once. Hence, visitors can view the pictures quicker.

Spectacular image slideshow effects

There are many ways to make your simple image slider more interesting. For instance, you can add eye-catching image effects to your slider. These effects will help catch the visitor’s attention and make them spend more time viewing your slider. Smart Slider 3 has a great number of effects you can choose from. Some effects are available in the free version of Smart Slider 3, but some are premium features. So, what are the best and most popular effects you can use? Let’s check them out!

Background animations

One of the best ways to enhance your image slider is to select a nice looking background animation. The background animation occurs on the slides while they’re changing. For example, when you go from slide one to slide two. Using Background animations you can enhance your slider but let the visitor’s focus on the actual image. Smart Slider 3 has several predefined background animations to choose from. There’s two main categories, vertical and horizontal. Each contains a large list of possible effects, including the new slices animation.

Ken Burns Effect

If you choose Smart Slider 3 as your image slider plugin, background animation won’t be the only way to boost your slider. The ever popular Ken Burns Effect is available in Smart Slider 3. If you haven’t heard the name of the effect yet, let me introduce it to you in a few words. Ken Burns slider effect is an astonishing panning and zooming effect. This simple but elegant effect adds a nice touch to your slider background images immediately.

Parallax Slider Effect

The Parallax Slider Effect creates the illusion of depth inside your image slider. The effect activates when visitors start scrolling down on the website. The content will move regularly, but the slide background will stay a little bit behind. The result is astonishing and people will love the result. The best part is how easy it is to add the parallax effect to your images with Smart Slider 3.

Moreover, you can use the parallax effect on layers as well. This lets you jump on the creative wagon and create spectacular effects. You can create image or textual layers, add the parallax effect and get a bunch of amazed visitors.

Create an image slider quickly and easily

Selecting the images from the WordPress Media Library is fairly easy and it’s the common approach to add images to the sliders. Although it might not be so convenient if you have many photos. If you have lots of images, you will need to select the images one by one inside your Media Library. Luckily, Smart Slider 3 has a great feature called dynamic slide generator. This feature can create slides dynamically from various sources. The most popular source is the WordPress post, but the RSS and social generators are popular as well.

There’s an “Images from folder” generator, which allows you to select a folder on your site. This folder has the images you want to create a slider from. Apart from selecting the image folder, the process is totally automatic. The slider picks up the images without you having to change anything. Even if you add new images later, or remove old ones, they’ll show up in the slider. After a given time you can change, the slider looks for new images in the folder to display them.

There are many other dynamic slide generators available. For example, you can create a slider from your Flickr or Pinterest images. Just set up the dynamic slide once. After that, the slider will continue fetching the new images all by itself.

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Background Animations

There is a great variety of background animations offered by Smart Slider 3. You can choose from more than 74 animations and 13 is available in the free version as well. These animations happen only on your slider’s background images, colors or videos. The Background animations have no effect on your layers at all. In exchange these animations are more spectacular and they’ll easily wow your visitors.

Setting up a background animation is extremely easy. Hit the green Animations button, and then select the animations you like, apply them and you’re ready to go. It’s up to you whether you choose one background animation or select many.

You may apply Background animations to every slide at the Slider settings page. You can also select them to a specific slide only. This means that you can mix them with Main animations. For instance, if you set Background animations for one slide, the rest will use the Main animation. You might set a different Background animation for every slide in your slider. Whenever you need something impressive take a look at these animations. You can apply Background animations on Simple type sliders and slides.

Ken Burns effect

Ken Burns effect is an astonishing panning and zooming effect. Nowadays, Ken Burns effect is one of the most popular animations for websites. Thus, the most popular themes offer a possibility of using the effect. The reason is simple: it is a simple, elegant effect and works on any kind of images. Moreover, the effect is not resource heavy at all.

Smart Slider 3 allows you to add this effect on individual slides or each slide in the slider. The effect is available only if your slider is Simple type or Block type. You can achieve similar effect for your image layers using layer animations.

Basic Layer animations

Not all animations Smart Slider 3 offers happen on your background images. Smart Slider 3 allows you to add a layer animation to all 15 layers. There are a couple of predefined animation you can choose from. But if you need something unique, you can use the layer animation builder. It helps you create any kind of animation you would like to. We know the layer animation builder has a learning curve, so we wrote tutorials to help you master them.

Do you need the layer animation to happen only on some user action? For example when they hover over an image, some extra information should appear? The events got you covered. Of course you can find tutorials to learn how to use them.

The best part of the layer animations (and events) is that they you can use them on blocks. Blocks are the one slide “sliders”, which can’t have Main or Background animations.

Split text animation

The split text animation is special kind of WordPress animation. You can use this effect on the heading layers only. The split text animation works in a unique was as doesn’t move the whole layer but its text alone. The effect gives you the opportunity to animate the text in many different ways. For instance, as a chain of lines, words or characters.

Reveal animation

Reveal animation is an elegant and modern effect you can use on your site. The effect is created by a single colored box, which moves in front of the actual layer, revealing it.

Highlighted heading

The highlighted heading helps you highlight the most important part of the heading, delivering your message in the most effective way. There are several cool effects you can choose from to grab your visitors’ attention.

Animated heading

Old-school effects like the typewriter became trendy in modern websites again. The animated heading layer helps you add a typewriter effect to your slides. Saving vertical space and wowing visitors at the same time has never been easier!

Parallax effect

The parallax effect is a nice WordPress animation based on an optical illusion. The parallax effect creates the illusion of depth during scrolling. It works that way that it moves the images at a different speed and show them from a different angle. It gives an incredible visual experience for every modern website. Smart Slider 3 can create parallax effect for both slide background images and layers.

Particle effect

The particle effect is variety of small shapes like dots, triangles or polygons. The shapes move around the slider and interact with each other or with the visitor. They look rather stunning and they work great as a WordPress animation.

Shape dividers

Shape dividers are trendy design elements, which are great to connect a visual content with a single colored section. For instance, you can put a slider with shape divider that has a background video or parallax image between two section. It will look amazing.

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