Description

Slide Crafter Reborn lets you create and manage responsive sliders as a custom post type. Features include:
– WordPress Posts Source: Pull any public post type (posts, pages, custom types) into a fully dynamic slider — content updates automatically as you publish. Filter by category, choose ordering, and set the post count. No HTML required.
– Parametric Customization: Configure slides per view, spacing, loop, pagination, navigation, autoplay, speed, animation type, and custom CSS.
– Responsive Sliders: Powered by Swiper, ensuring compatibility across devices.
– Dynamic Cards: Add up to 20 cards with a user-friendly repeater interface.
– WooCommerce Integration: Automatically pull featured products into a slider.
– Shortcode and block: [slidecrafterreborn_slide id="X"] still works. From 1.7.0 you can also insert the Slide Crafter Gutenberg block and pick a slider.
– Accessibility: Keyboard navigation, labelled controls, and autoplay that pauses when the visitor prefers reduced motion.
– Lazy-loaded images: Off-screen slide images use loading="lazy" so the first visible slides load first.
– Export / import: Download a slider as a zip (settings, cards, and its media-library images) and import it as a new slider on another site.

Source Code

Non-minified source code is available at: https://github.com/tlloancy/slide-crafter-reborn
To build the plugin:

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

Slide Crafter Insert a Slide Crafter Reborn slider. Choose a slide created under Slides.

Installation

Upload the slide-crafter-reborn folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
Activate the plugin via the WordPress ‘Plugins’ page.
Create sliders under the “Slides” menu in the WordPress admin.

FAQ

How do I customize sliders?: Open a slide under Slides. The settings sidebar controls slides per view, spacing, loop, pagination, navigation, autoplay, speed, and animation. Add up to 20 HTML cards (or use Posts / WooCommerce as the data source).
How do I copy a slider to another site?: Open the slider and click Export. On the other site, open Slides and use Import a slider. A new slider is created, with the images that this site accepts. SVG files are included in the zip; if the site blocks SVG uploads, those names are listed so you can replace them.
How do I put a slider on a page?: Use [slidecrafterreborn_slide id="123"] (the ID is shown in the Slides list and in the editor) or add the Slide Crafter block and choose that slide.
Why did autoplay stop?: If the operating system or browser has prefers-reduced-motion enabled, autoplay is disabled so the slider does not move on its own. Arrows, pagination, and keyboard still work.
Do all slide images load at once?: Images in the first visible slides (based on “slides per view”) load eagerly. Images further along the carousel use loading="lazy". The Swiper library itself is unchanged.
Is it secure?: Card HTML is passed through wp_kses_post. Custom CSS is restricted to a property allow-list.

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Contributors & Developers

“Slide Crafter Reborn” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Thomas Lloancy

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Changelog

2.1.0

New: export a slider as a zip (settings, cards, and the media-library images used in the cards) from the slider screen or the slides list.
New: import that zip from the slides list. A new slider is created. An image already in the library with the same bytes is reused. SVG is included; if this site refuses it, the file name is listed. Posts and products copy the settings only.

2.0.1

Fix: the Slider block no longer collapses or overflows when placed inside a flex/grid parent (Group, Columns): its wrapper now has a definite, shrinkable width.
Fix: Plugin Check findings (output escaping note, load_plugin_textdomain, tax_query, post__not_in).

2.0.0

October 2026 — major rework of the display engine and of the editor.
* Fix: fade, cube (and now flip / stacked cards) are pinned to one card at every breakpoint. Before, tablet breakpoints forced two cards per view, which made cards overlap.
* Fix: removed a stray .swiper-slide { width: 300px } rule on small screens.
* Responsive: breakpoints are measured on the slider’s own width (container based), with separate cards-per-view for desktop, tablet and mobile.
* New effects: coverflow, flip, stacked cards. New looks: clean (default for new sliders), classic (kept for existing sliders), dark. Accent colour setting and CSS custom properties.
* Front-end: one shared script instead of an inline script per slider; styles moved to a stylesheet (no layout shift before the slider starts); Swiper updated to 11.2.10 (minified, MIT, source: https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper).
* Accessibility: autoplay pause button, autoplay pauses on hover, on focus and when off-screen; keyboard arrows only act when the slider has focus; native buttons for arrows.
* Editor: live preview rendered by the real front-end renderer with a Desktop / Tablet / Mobile switch; card templates, media-library button, drag-and-drop and move up/down, duplicate / collapse cards, syntax-highlighted HTML and CSS editors, Ctrl/Cmd+S, unsaved-changes warning, up to 20 cards.
* Slides list: shortcode copy button, content and effect columns, Duplicate action.
* Block: server-side preview in the block editor, link to edit the slider.
* Security: capability checks on every AJAX endpoint; slides in draft or trash are never shown to visitors; no WooCommerce call when WooCommerce is inactive; escaped product names in the picker.
* Fix: rewrite rules were flushed on every request; sliders no longer register public URLs.
* Fix: backslashes in cards / CSS were lost on save; excerpts were cut in the middle of accented characters; display:flex, transform, box-shadow and other inline styles were stripped from cards; :hover, , and > were stripped from custom CSS selectors (custom CSS is now scoped per slider).
* Dynamic sources: up to 20 posts, several categories, optional “hide current page”, excerpt toggle, custom button label, password-protected posts skipped.
* French translation included.
* Removed the “plugin is active” notice displayed on every admin page.

1.7.0

August 25, 2026:
* Compat: Tested up to WordPress 7.1.
* Performance: loading="lazy" (and decoding="async") on slide images; the first visible slides stay eager so the carousel does not wait on every image.
* Accessibility: prefers-reduced-motion turns autoplay off; Swiper keyboard control; region/carousel ARIA and labelled prev/next.
* Editor: Gutenberg block slide-crafter-reborn/slider (block.json, dynamic render). The shortcode is unchanged.
* Design: Slide editor uses native WordPress admin controls (notices, .button, no purple/gold glow on admin chrome).
* Docs: docs/USER-GUIDE.md (English) and docs/MODE-DEMPLOI.md (French).
* The bundled Swiper build is not replaced or refactored.

1.6.0

June 2026:
* New Feature: AI Card Generation. When the WordPress “AI” plugin is active with a configured connector (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google AI), a new panel appears above the card editor letting you describe your slider in plain language and generate all cards in one click.
* The panel gracefully falls back to a setup guide (with a direct link to install the AI plugin) when no AI connector is configured.
* Generated cards are sanitized through the same wp_kses pipeline as manually entered cards.

1.5.0

May 26, 2026 — WordPress 7.0 release:
* New Feature: WordPress Posts as a dynamic source. Any public post type (posts, pages, custom post types) can now feed a slider automatically. Configure post type, number of posts, ordering (date, title, random, recently modified), and optionally filter by category. The slider updates itself as you publish — zero HTML required.
* The Data Source selector now includes “WordPress Posts (dynamic)” alongside Manual and WooCommerce modes.
* Admin: new settings panel for post source (post type, count, order, category) with live preview that refreshes as you change options.
* Fix: Removed the redundant “Slide Title” sidebar field. The native WordPress title field is now the single source of truth; the AJAX save reads from it directly.
* Fix: Leaving the edit page after a successful AJAX save no longer triggers the “changes may not be saved” browser alert.
* Tags updated to reflect the new dynamic posts capability.
* Tested up to: WordPress 7.0.

1.4.4

April 29, 2026:
* Fix: Corrected AJAX product search filtering. The search term is now properly captured using $_REQUEST, ensuring results match the user’s input (e.g., searching for “honey” no longer returns “carrots”).
* Improvement: JavaScript Localization. Placeholders and messages are now dynamically handled via wp_localize_script for full translation support.

1.4.3

April 26:
* Fix: Woo Features on preview and shortcode are now correctly synchronized.

1.4.2

Fix: Replaced obsolete copy clipboard API that is not compatible with Brave Browser

1.4.1

New: Added a copy button to easily copy the shortcode

1.4.0

New Feature: Added “Import WooCommerce Product” in Manual Mode. You can now fetch any product to generate a rich HTML card (title, image, price, and link) that remains fully editable.
Fixed: Resolved rendering glitches and layout breaks when switching between transition effects (Fade, Cube, Slide) in the real-time preview.
Improvement: Cleaned up the product HTML template to ensure consistent image sizing and proper link wrapping.

1.3.0

New Feature: Added WooCommerce integration. You can now pull “Featured Products” automatically.
New Feature: Real-time preview switching between manual HTML cards and dynamic products.
Improvement: Deep refactor of the admin JS to handle Swiper instance destruction and reconstruction for a smoother UI.
Fixed: Corrected CSS layout issues when switching slider sources without page refresh.

1.2.0

Major architecture update: Migrated data storage from wp_options to wp_postmeta for better performance and scalability.

1.1.1

Fixed a regression in shortcode result display.

1.1.0

Improved code display.
Simplify code especially for css encapsulation purposes.

1.0.5

Removed or commented wp_cache_flush() in includes/cpt.php to prevent interference with WordPress cron tasks, improving reliability of scheduled tasks.

1.0.4

Fixed debug log pollution by restricting logging to ERROR level by default, downgrading non-critical logs to DEBUG.

1.0.3

Fixed fatal error caused by duplicate slidecrafterreborn_unescape_html function definition by removing it from meta-boxes.php.

1.0.2

Fixed excessive escaping of special characters in card content, ensuring proper display (e.g., d'affinage instead of d\'affinage).
Optimized debug logging to reduce log pollution by making logs conditional on WP_DEBUG and introducing log levels.
Added cleanup for unnecessary HTML tags (
, empty

p>) in card content.
* Added database cleanup script to fix existing escaped content on plugin activation.

1.0.1

Fixed shortcode is displayed properly as in the preview.

1.0.0

Initial release with parametric slider creation and Swiper integration.
Fixed missing form elements error in admin.js.
Corrected CPT mismatch from scrslide to scr_slide.
Ensured continuous preview looping with Swiper.
Polished UI with gold accents and smooth transitions.
Optimized save system using wp_options.