Description
If you want to add a widget to show posts images with caption in a carousel/slider Widget Post Slider is for you. This plugin brings all the post images with the title from blog posts. You can show limited slider too. It’s light weight and simple, install activate plugin. It’s user option is so simple to use. It loads very fast. It’s fully responsive that adapts to any device like tablet and mobile. You don’t need to add any extra jQuery or css, just install and activate.
Plugin Features
- Slider on Widget
- Unlimited post slider
- Limiting slider with option
- Fully Responsive
Screenshots
Live Demo. 
Widget area.
Installation
- Download the plugin.
- Upload it to the plugins folder of your blog.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Now, go to the Widgets page of the Appearance section and configure the Widget Post Slider.
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Contributors & Developers
“Widget Post Slider” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Widget Post Slider” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
1.3.8 – May 13, 2026
- Improved: Plugin security hardened (widget_title context, category validation, filterable slide count ceiling).
- Improved: Internationalization — translatable default title and slider arrow labels; refreshed translation template.
- Improved: Switched to plugin_dir_url, single version constant, SCRIPT_DEBUG-gated assets, and after_setup_theme image-size registration.
1.3.7 – May 12, 2026
- New: Posts without a featured image now render a placeholder so they no longer disappear from the slider.
- Improved: Slide images now stretch to fill the widget area for a consistent layout.
- Improved: Plugin security improved.
- Improved: Replaced Font Awesome icons with inline SVG to remove an external dependency.
- Improved: Declared modern WordPress and PHP version requirements.
- Tested: WordPress 6.8 compatibility.
1.3.6 – Apr 10, 2024
- Improved: The plugin security improved.
- Tested: WordPress 6.5 compatibility.
1.3.5 – Jan 25, 2024
- Tested: WordPress 6.4.2 compatibility.
1.3.4 – Sep 22, 2023
- Fix: The warning in the Gutenberg widget area if the website has no posts.
- Tested: WordPress 6.3 compatibility.
1.3.3 – Feb 05, 2022
- New: Language .pot file added.
- Tested: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.
1.3.2 – Mar 16, 2021
- Fix: WordPress 5.7 compatible issue.
1.3.1 – AUG 25, 2020
- Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatible issue.
1.3
- Removed dot(.) at the end of title.
1.2
- Fixed CSS issue.
- Add New Design.
1.0.1
- Error fixed.
1.0
- Initial Release.