Description
Allaxi turns ordinary images and video into interactive, drag-to-reveal visual stories — right inside WordPress, with no coding. Build a widget in a live editor, style it to match your site, and drop a shortcode into any post or page.
Three modes
Before / After
A classic two-image reveal. Drag a handle to wipe between a “before” and an “after” image — great for restorations, renovations, retouching, and any change worth showing off. Crossfading labels, a fully styleable reveal line and handle, an optional background box, and title + info captions.
Timeline (Pro)
A multi-frame scrub. Add a sequence — steps in a recipe, stages of a build, years of a changing view — and let visitors scrub along a styleable track with dated or labelled markers. Panel or pop-up bubble captions, horizontal or vertical layout, floating or docked controllers, and full control over track, nodes and labels.
Video — Storyboard to Clip (Pro)
Pair a hand-drawn storyboard sketch with a short video clip. As the visitor drags the handle, the sketch is revealed into the finished footage AND the video scrubs in sync, so a concept visibly becomes its final form. Set a “match point” so the drawing lines up with the matching video frame, add an optional “fade sketch out” dissolve, and drop transparent PNG overlays (e.g. director’s notes) over the sketch or the clip. Use a local video upload (smooth, frame-accurate) or a YouTube link.
Free vs Pro
Free
- Before / After mode (horizontal), with all the styling controls.
Pro
- Timeline mode.
- Video mode (Storyboard to Clip; local upload + YouTube).
- Vertical orientation.
- Per-frame PNG overlays.
- Hide the “Made with Allaxi” credit line.
Uninstall
Allaxi cleans up after itself. When you delete the plugin from the Plugins screen — and only if you have enabled “Remove data on uninstall” in Settings — it removes everything it created: its settings and options, its install date, and every Before/After, Timeline and Video widget you built (stored as its own hidden post type). On a multisite network the same clean-up runs for each site. Deactivating keeps everything; only deleting runs the clean-up, and it runs only when you have opted in. Your Media Library images are never touched — Allaxi only references them, so your originals always stay in place.
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/, or install the plugin ZIP from the Plugins screen. - Activate Allaxi from the Plugins screen.
- Open Allaxi in the admin menu, pick a mode, and build your first widget.
- Copy the shortcode shown under the live preview and paste it into any post or page.
FAQ
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How do I add a widget to a page?
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Build it in the Allaxi editor, then copy the shortcode shown under the live preview (for example
[allaxi id="123"]) and paste it into any post or page. -
What video format should I use?
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Compress phone or camera footage before uploading — aim for 720p, 30fps, H.264 MP4, web-optimised, 1–3 MB. The plugin ships a step-by-step encoding guide (HandBrake + ffmpeg, Mac and PC), linked from the in-dashboard manual. Prefer a local upload over YouTube where you can — it scrubs more smoothly.
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Do my before and after images need to be the same size?
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Yes. For a clean reveal, both images should share the same width and height in pixels; crop them to matching dimensions before uploading.
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Contributors & Developers
“Allaxi Timeline Slider Creator” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.7.5
- Hardening: the preview REST endpoint now verifies the user may edit the specific instance being previewed (not just a broad capability), and that the ID is an Allaxi instance.
- Hardening: shortcode output is now passed through wp_kses against an explicit allow-list of the tags and attributes the widget uses.
- Improved: the “Pro feature not installed” editor message is now a plain informational note (shown only for instances built with the separate Pro add-on), and the in-editor upgrade panel copy was expanded and a display bug fixed.
0.7.4
- Fixed: on some setups a block of developer notes could appear as visible text over a slider on the front end. Internal notes are now kept fully out of the page output.
- Fixed: the “Change image” / “Change video” / “Change overlay” buttons in the editor no longer push the small clear (×) button out of their column on narrower layouts. The button now shrinks neatly and the × stays in place.
0.7.3
- Security hardening for the WordPress.org review: the bundled documentation renderer now HTML-escapes all text before formatting and passes link URLs through esc_url(). It only ever processes the plugin’s own docs, so there is no functional or visible change.
0.7.2
- Code hygiene for the WordPress.org review: prefixed all template-scope variables, and clarified the input-sanitising and dynamic-action annotations. No functional or visible changes.
0.7.1
- Added the plugin readme and documentation, and finalised the in-dashboard User Manual and examples gallery.
0.7.0
- New Video mode (Pro) — “Storyboard to Clip”: pair a storyboard sketch with a video clip; dragging reveals the footage and scrubs the video in sync.
- Full Video editor: storyboard + clip pickers, local upload or YouTube source, auto-grabbed clip thumbnail, and a tunable “match point”.
- “Fade sketch out” reveal option with an adjustable fade-start point.
- Per-layer PNG overlays for the storyboard and the clip.
- YouTube source support via the iframe API, with a paste-a-link/embed modal.
- Examples gallery expanded: Before/After, Timeline (horizontal + vertical) and both Video methods.
- New in-dashboard User Manual (with a linked step-by-step video-encoding guide).
0.6.10
- Timeline: vertical-right caption bubble with a label heading and rolling caption.