Super block slider – Image/video background & content slider

Changelog

2.8.3.8

• Fix: Slider freeze race condition when rapidly clicking navigation buttons during infinite loops.
• Fix: Infinite loop DOM order becoming out of sync on subsequent loops.
• Fix: Parallax effect automatically disabled for video backgrounds.
• Fix: Video playback synced to start only after slide transition completes.

2.8.3.7

• Fix: Inverted mouse drag direction for swiping.
• Fix: Infinite loop DOM restructuring issues when using dot navigation.
• Fix: Video autoplay behavior to rely on native autoPlay on initial load.
• Fix: Overly sensitive touch swipe and vertical scroll interference on mobile.
• Perf: Refactored autoplay loop to use setInterval instead of a continuous requestAnimationFrame loop.
• Dev: Added Jest test suite for frontend TypeScript module.
• Feature: Add background Video option
• Feature: Add responsive video poster image option

2.8.3.6

• Feature: Add padding setting to ‘superblockslider/slide’ inner content
• Feature: Moved “Delete Slide” button in the Inspector sidebar
• Change single slide delete button label to “Delete”
• Fix: Upgrade ‘superblockslider/slide’ block to API Version 3 for full iframe editor compatibility
• Fix: Resolve SelectControl default size deprecation warning in the editor

2.8.3.5

• Refactor: Resolved React render cycle warnings in the block editor by moving synchronous attributes updates to useEffect.
• Refactor: Replaced brittle DOM-scraping logic with a robust top-down data flow using useSelect for the Slider and Slide block orchestration.
• Refactor: Modularized responsive background image configuration logic into a dedicated ResponsiveBackgroundAdapter component for cleaner maintainability.
• Refactor: Thermo-nuclear structural rewrite of the frontend superblockslider.ts. Dismantled a massive 500-line closure function into a clean, object-oriented SuperBlockSlider class.
• Refactor: Resolved performance scaling issues and potential memory leaks by implementing a SuperBlockSliderManager that binds resize and scroll listeners once globally instead of per-slider.
• Refactor: Eliminated brittle “any” typed variables driving the slider state machine, replacing them with strongly-typed properties (playing, paused, stopped) and interfaces.

2.8.3.4

• Change single slide delete button label to “x” icon in the editor for QOL improvement.
• Modernized block registration: Migrated metadata to block.json and upgraded to API Version 3 for improved performance and full compatibility with the WordPress 7.0 iframed editor.

2.8.3.3

• Fix WP plugin check errors, minor fixes.

2.8.3.2

• Add ability to reorder slides.
• Remove admin shortcode message.
• Fix WordPress 6.9 compatibility.

2.8.3

• Display shortcode in Super block slider admin area.

2.8.2.5

• Update navigation arrow SVG, change navigation arrow CSS implimentaion.

2.8.2.4

• Test on WordPress 6.8-RC3
• Backend editor quality of life changes.

2.8.2.2

• Fix bug: Main slider > Advanced > Additional CSS class(es) was not being added in the HTML output.

2.8.2.1

• change post permission check for superblockslider shortcode.

2.8.2

• fix error: ERROR: WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch, WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped.

2.8.1

• fix error: ERROR: WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch.

2.8

• Security fix: Fix vulnerable to Broken Access Control.

2.7.9

• Add .pot translation files.

2.7.8

• Fix editor tab overlow.

2.7.7

• Fix editor styles: remove global editor styles
• clean up invalid registerBlockType parameter

2.7.6

• Fix bug Gutenberg blocks not being process when embeding using shortcode.

2.7.5

• Add load sueprblockslider.js in defer.
• Use passive listeners for touchstart, touchmove event.

2.7.3

• Fix WordPress 6.3 gradient crashes, bugs.
• Fix animating class

2.7.1

• Add class superblockslider__slide–animating-in, superblockslider__slide–animating-out when slide is animating.

2.7

• Added shortcode support for use in classic editor.

2.6.3

• Fix bug: Frontend autoplay not stopping when it should.

2.6.2

• Fix bug: Overlap timing of transition animate speed timing and autoplay timing.

2.6.1

• Fix bug: Reduce mobile touch sensitivity.

2.6

• Added content overflow options.
• Added mouse drag event changes slide
• Fix bug: Adaptive height not working in editor when slider is created.
• Optimise touch event code
• Add 6 more gradients
• Add donation link

2.4.7

• Fix Editor description for parallex.
• Fix Parallax code.
• Fix mobile gesture not stopping autoplay.

2.4.5

• Added “Adaptive slider height”.
• Fix bug causing slider to disappear if transsition effect is set to “Fade”.
• Fix bug: GradientPicker component causing crashes on full-site-editing mode.
• Fix ful-site-editing errors

2.3.2

• Fix bug: JS defer causes supersliderblock not to run.

2.3.1

• Add Mobile swipe gesture.
• Update responsive settings descriptions.

2.2.1

• Fix bug causing crashes if 2 or more slider is created.
• Changed editor text and rearange controls.
• Lock move control of single slide by default.

2.1.1

• Fix bug – CSS style causes slider arrow to overlaps content.

2.0

• Add custom responsive screen size images option.
• Fix bug – Added overflow style to content container.

1.5.5

• Fix bug – Slide index not set correctly if Super slider block is a child block.
• Slide title line height style.
• Update descriptions in editor.

1.5.4

• Fix parallax effect.
• Fix slide title line height in slide editor.
• Add src/js/
• minor bug fixes.

1.5.3

• Add support for WordPress version 5.9

1.5.2

• fix bug – WordPress version 5.8.1 cause slide index to be undefine.

1.5.1

• fix bug – Editor fade effect : selected slide not visible if child block selected.

1.5

• fix bug – track css transition all

1.4.9

• fix bug – Firefox transition-timing-function.
• fix bug – Chrome background image flicker.

1.4.8

• fix bug – fade effect not changing in editor.

1.4.7

• Add Parallax background image

1.3.7

• Add slide link option

1.2.7

• Fix bug – Title indicator to render html.
• Fix bug – Title indicator word-wrap.
• Fix editor .wp-block max-width css.

1.2.6

• Changed Super block slider category to ‘Media’ from ‘Widgets’.

1.2.5

• Fix bug – initial active slide not correct cause by older versions.