Smart Slider for WordPress!
Smart Slider for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create slides of different types on your WordPress site. I have tried MetaSlider before for creating slides on WordPress, and I have been happy with it until recently. After moving a local WordPress instance to a VPS, I updated the plugins and then found out that the slides didn’t show correctly anymore. The photos of the slide would show up below each other. I tried fiddling around with the settings, but it sometimes showed errors while saving some settings, and with other settings that saved successfully, the display was not fixed. Finally, I decided to try a new plugin. There was this Smart Slider that had a good rating on WordPress market. So, I installed and enabled it. Although it was not as easy to use as MetaSlider, it did the job, and with some custom CSS I was able to position the caption I wanted to show on it. It also supported specifying link on each slide, which allowed users to click each slide and read the related post. Here is the custom CSS I used for the slide: