Slidario – AI Product Slider & Carousel for WooCommerce

Most shoppers never scroll past the first rows of a shop page. The products you most want to sell, like the ones on sale, the best sellers, or the new arrivals, often sit where nobody sees them. A good slider puts them in front of the shopper, but most slider plugins are built for big hero banners, not for products. Others lock the basics, like product sources or a second style, behind a paid plan.

Slidario is a WooCommerce product slider that is complete in the free version. Pick a slider type and a style, choose where the products come from, and the slider keeps itself up to date: sale badges, prices, stock and Add to cart come straight from WooCommerce. You can also build image, gallery, video, post, logo, before/after and review sliders with the same builder, and see in the dashboard how many people viewed and clicked each one. Slidario is built for WooCommerce stores, so WooCommerce must be installed and active.

There is no limit on how many sliders you make, and no time limit. One slider can hand-pick up to 100 products.

Key Features at a Glance

• 9 slider types: product, category, review, image, gallery, video, post, logo and before/after.
• 17 styles and 16 templates, plus demo sliders in one click.
• 14 product sources: sale, best sellers, top rated, trending, newest, recently added, featured, low stock, related, upsell, cross-sell, category, tag and hand-picked products.
• Shop features built in: sale badges, sale countdown, “Only X left”, free shipping badge and a quick view popup.
• Works where you build pages: Gutenberg block, shortcode, Elementor, Bricks, Divi, WPBakery and the classic editor.
• Slider analytics: views, clicks, click rate and add to cart for each slider, counted on your own site.
• AI headlines and image alt text with the AI provider you connect in WordPress 7.0 or later.
• Matches your theme: colours, fonts and buttons follow your theme automatically.
• Fast: slider files load only on pages that have a slider, and images load lazily.
• Accessible and translation-ready: pause button, reduced motion and keyboard arrows; product sliders follow the visitor’s language with WPML and Polylang.

WooCommerce Product Slider and Product Carousel

Choose a product source and the product carousel fills itself. A “Sale” slider shows what is on sale right now and drops a product when its sale ends. A “Best sellers” slider follows your real orders. Related, upsell and cross-sell sliders use the products you already linked in WooCommerce. When you want full control, hand-pick products by name or SKU and drag them into order.

Each product card shows the photo, name, price and an Add to cart button. Turn on the badges you want and they fill themselves from the product data: the sale percentage, a countdown to the end of the sale, “Only 3 left” when stock is low, and free shipping. Sold-out products can hide themselves. The quick view popup lets a shopper see the details and add to cart without leaving the page.

Category Slider

Show your product categories as a “shop by category” carousel, with each category’s photo and product count. When a category has no photo, Slidario uses a photo from one of its products, so the strip never shows empty boxes.

Review and Testimonial Slider

Show your WooCommerce product reviews, or add testimonials by hand and mark them as coming from Google or Facebook. For WooCommerce reviews and your own testimonials, the review slider adds review schema, so search engines can read the ratings.

Image, Gallery, Video, Post, Logo and Before/After Sliders

• Image slider: hero banners with a heading, text and button on each slide.
• Gallery slider: a grid or a carousel.
• Video slider: YouTube, Vimeo or your own MP4 files. The video player loads only when a visitor presses play.
• Post slider: your latest blog posts, or the posts of a category or tag, as cards.
• Logo carousel: brand and partner logos, also as a continuous ticker.
• Before/after slider: drag to compare two photos.

Templates and Demo Sliders

Start from one of 16 ready-made designs, filtered by slider type. Or create demo sliders in one click, with a Showcase page, and see how the styles look on your own theme. The demo photos come with the plugin, and the demo also adds sample posts, sample reviews and a post category. Remove all demo content again with one click.

Place Sliders Anywhere

Add a slider with the Gutenberg block, the [slidario id="123"] shortcode, or the Slidario element in Elementor, Bricks, Divi or WPBakery. To open a slider as a popup, use [slidario_popup id="123" trigger="delay" delay="3" once="1"]: the trigger can be load, delay, scroll or exit, delay is the seconds to wait (or the percent scrolled for scroll), and once=”1″ shows it one time per visitor. A button in the classic editor inserts the shortcode for you. Breakdance and other builders use the shortcode. A slider can also open as a popup: on page load, after a delay, on scroll, or when the visitor is about to leave. Set a start and end date to run a slider only during a sale.

Slider Analytics

The dashboard shows views, clicks, click rate and add to cart for each slider, your top sliders, the most clicked products and what needs attention, such as out-of-stock products, missing alt text or a schedule about to end. Counts are anonymous, stored in your WordPress database, and use no cookies. Export them as CSV.

AI Headlines, Alt Text and MCP

On WordPress 7.0 or later, connect an AI provider under Settings → Connectors, and Slidario can write slide headlines and image alt text for you. Slidario adds no account or fee of its own; every feature except the AI buttons works without AI.

Slidario also registers MCP tools, so you can ask Claude or ChatGPT to list, read, create, update and trash sliders on your site. It stays off until you turn it on in Settings, and needs WordPress 6.9 or later and the WordPress MCP Adapter plugin.

Fast, Accessible and Theme-Friendly

Slider CSS and JavaScript load only on pages that contain a slider, and images load lazily, so the rest of your site stays as fast as before. Sliders take your theme’s fonts and buttons, and the colours of block themes; any colour you set replaces only that colour. Every autoplaying slider has a pause button, respects the “reduce motion” setting, and moves with the keyboard arrows. Text is translatable, and product sliders follow the visitor’s language with WPML and Polylang.

Pro Features

The free plugin covers every everyday slider. Slidario Pro, the AI product slider for WooCommerce, adds the tools that grow sales and save time:

• Shoppable stories: full-screen, Instagram-style stories with photos or video, product tags and an Add button.
• AI slider builder: describe a slider in one line; AI picks the type, style and products and saves a draft.
• Product gallery slider for product pages, with hover zoom, lightbox, product video and photos per variation.
• Recently viewed products as a product source.
• 16 more styles, the 2 Story styles and 15 more templates (35 styles and 31 templates in total).
• Auto-placement: show sliders on product, shop, category and cart pages without a shortcode.
• Display rules: show a slider by device, page, new or returning shopper, login state or date.
• Orders and revenue per slider, and A/B tests that pick the winner.

Every slider you make in the free version keeps working when you add Pro.

External services

Slidario works on your own site and sends nothing to Plugincy. It connects to the outside services below only when you use the feature that needs them.

Gravatar

Used by review sliders that show WooCommerce product reviews, when the “Show Avatars” option is on under Settings → Discussion. WordPress builds the customer’s picture address from a hash of their email address, and the visitor’s browser loads that picture from Gravatar (gravatar.com), which receives the hash and the visitor’s IP address. Gravatar Terms of Service, Automattic Privacy Policy.

YouTube

Used by the video slider when you add a YouTube video, and by the demo video slider. The slide shows the video’s thumbnail image from YouTube (i.ytimg.com), which loads with the page, so YouTube receives the visitor’s IP address and browser details as soon as the page opens. When a visitor presses play, the YouTube player (youtube.com) loads. YouTube Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy.

Vimeo

Used by the video slider when you add a Vimeo video. When a visitor presses play, the Vimeo player (player.vimeo.com) loads and Vimeo receives the visitor’s IP address and browser details. Vimeo Terms of Service, Vimeo Privacy Policy.

Your AI provider (through the WordPress AI Client)

Your content is sent only when you click an AI button (“Write with AI” for a headline or image alt text) on WordPress 7.0 or later. Slidario sends the request through WordPress’s own AI Client to the provider you connected under Settings → Connectors: for a headline, the slide’s text, the image’s title and alt text, product facts and the site’s language; for alt text, the image and the site’s language. To show which models you can choose, WordPress’s AI Client may also ask the connected provider for its model list when you open the builder or the Slidario settings; no slider or product content is sent for that. Slidario stores no AI keys and has no AI service of its own; the provider’s terms and privacy policy apply.

Privacy

Slider views, clicks and add-to-cart counts are plain numbers kept in your WordPress database, with no visitor details. Known bots are not counted. A view is counted by a small request from the visitor’s browser when the page opens, so pages served from a page cache count too. To stop views, clicks and add to cart being counted without limit, a hash of the IP address, and a hash of the IP address with browser details, are used as the names of temporary records that expire within an hour; this happens for every visitor on a page with a slider. The IP address itself is not stored.

The popup slider sets one cookie, slidario_popup_(slider ID), for 7 days when it is set to show once, so it does not open again for that visitor. No other cookies are set.

Third-party libraries

Slidario includes Swiper 11.2.6 by Vladimir Kharlampidi, released under the MIT License, in assets/lib/. The readable source code is at https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper.

Slidario’s admin screens use the Inter font by Rasmus Andersson, released under the SIL Open Font License, in assets/fonts/ (licence in assets/fonts/OFL.txt).

The demo photos in assets/demo are part of Slidario and are released under the same licence as the plugin (GPLv2 or later).