Sliders, carousels, galleries and slideshows
Slider listings often overlap with adjacent image-display formats.
The carousel tag appears alongside 172 plugins, compared with 86 for image-slider, 84 for slideshow and 76 for gallery. Titles such as Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider also reflect this overlap in naming, without defining the features of every listing.
Editor and store-related tags
Some category listings are associated with editor or store contexts through their tags.
- Elementor: 46 plugins share this tag with the Slider category.
- Gutenberg: 37 plugins have this overlap.
- WooCommerce: 34 plugins are tagged in both groups.
Adoption and review signals among leading plugins
Three leading listings stand apart in active installs, while review signals vary among established options.
- 100,000+ installs: Smart Slider 3 has 800,000 active installs and MetaSlider has 500,000; both are labeled excellent with many reviews. SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle has 400,000 installs and an excellent rating with a moderate number of reviews.
- 10,000–70,000 installs: Depicter (70,000) has an excellent rating with a moderate number of reviews. Master Slider (60,000) is excellent with many reviews, while Carousel Slider (30,000) is good with a moderate number.
- Mixed or few-review signals: Serious Slider and HT Slider For Elementor each have 20,000 installs and mixed ratings with few reviews.
A broad category with a small high-install group and uneven upkeep
The category is large, but relatively few listings reach higher install thresholds, and recent updates are not widespread across the full group.
There are 615 plugins in the category, with 3 at 100,000 or more active installs and 19 at 10,000 or more. Meanwhile, 37% were updated in the last year, indicating that recent upkeep is not uniform across the category.
Among the leading plugins listed here, all but Carousel Slider were updated this month; Carousel Slider was updated 2 months ago. Those recent dates among prominent listings contrast with the category-wide update share and its much larger pool of lower-install plugins.