Discover the top WordPress slider plugins that offer rich features, seamless multilingual compatibility, and easy translation.
Sliders are a great way to communicate content with visitors, offering several benefits such as:
Make your site visually appealing
Increase engagement through interactive content
Clearly showcase your products and services
To enjoy these benefits across every language on your website, it’s important to translate your sliders.
Translating Sliders Should Be Simple
Like other parts of your site, translating sliders should be simple and straightforward, letting you focus on tasks more important for your business.
Our recent survey and interviews with 400 WPML clients confirm this: spending less time on minor details leads to better business results.
For example, 71.2% of clients who spent less time optimizing their site reported positive outcomes, compared to only 52.4% of clients who invested more time.
Our research shows you should spend less time translating and optimizing your site, and focus more on marketing, strategy, and other important business activities.
Choosing the Right Slider Plugin
As of today, WPML is fully compatible with three popular slider plugins, guaranteeing a quick and effortless translation process:
LayerSlider
Elementor Slides
Divi Slider
To translate any slider created using these plugins, simply go to WPML → Translation Management, select the slider and page containing your slider, and send them for translation.
For example, here’s how you can translate LayerSlider with WPML in under 30 seconds using automatic translation.
Slider Plugins Compatible with WPML
1. LayerSlider
LayerSlider is an excellent plugin for creating custom sliders from scratch. It includes a powerful editor with pixel-perfect control, 10+ building block elements, transition effects, and plenty of styling options.
If you don’t have time to build your own sliders, LayerSlider offers a library of 200+ templates, including sliders, pop-ups, 404 pages, and other pre-built content.
Price: starts at $28/year
2. Elementor Slides
Elementor Slides is a widget for creating animated sliders. As part of Elementor Pro, you get all of the styling options included in the editor, such as transition effects, autoplay settings, layout control, and more.
Unlike LayerSlider, there are no pre-built templates available and the animation options are quite limited. That being said, Elementor Slides is a great way to add interactive content on your website if you’re already an Elementor user.
Price: included in Elementor Pro
3. Divi Slider
Divi Slider is a module for adding sliders to your site. As part of the premium Divi page builder, the Slider module includes all the basic styling options included in the Divi editor, as well as plenty of transition effects.
While the Divi builder doesn’t include any templates, you can get 100+ pre-built slider designs with the Divi Slider Module Pack.
Pricing: included in Divi
Using a Different Sliders Plugin?
If your site already uses a slider plugin that’s not as translation-friendly, should you switch?
Here’s our recommendation based on our extensive research and experience:
Site Situation
Translation Complexity
Our Recommendation
Existing site – with sliders
Simple, no complicated workarounds
No need to switch
Complex, requires complicated workarounds
Consider switching to a recommended plugin
Existing site – no sliders yet
Any
Choose a recommended plugin for simple translations
New site – planning stage
Any
Use a recommended plugin from the start
Which slider plugin are you using? Have you experienced difficulties translating sliders? Are complicated workarounds making you consider switching plugins?
