Description
WP Social Media Slider Lite is a simple and stylish plugin that displays your tweets in a slider. You can learn more about it by checking out the official WP Social Media Slider website.
- Fully responsive
- Lazy loading to speed up page loads
- Works in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE 8-11
- Thorough documentation on setup and operation
- Fully customizable via filters, css, custom JavaScript initialization, and more (also described in the documentation)
- Clean and professional design
Include Facebook and Instagram Posts
If you’re more of a Facebook or Instagram user–or if you use all three–upgrade to the full version of WP Social Media Slider. It includes Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Do you have feature requests?
We’d be happy to hear any feature requests that you have for this slider! Simply shoot us a note!
Troubleshooting
Is something broken? Let us know (by posting in the support forum here)! We’d like to do what we can to ensure that our plugin works great for as many people as possible! There’s also some troubleshooting information on our documentation page.
Installation
Setting up WP Social Media Slider is easy!
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
- Select
wp-social-media-slider.zip
from your computer - Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download
wp-social-media-slider.zip
- Extract the
wp-social-media-slider
directory to your computer - Upload the
wp-social-media-slider
directory to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
FAQ
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Q. What about other social media networks?
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The Lite version of this plugin only supports Twitter. Upgrade to the full version to include Facebook and Instagram as well. Other social media networks like Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Tumblr, etc. may be added in the future. If so, all purchasers of the plugin will get free updates (note that Lite users will still be limited to Twitter).
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Q. How difficult is it to set up the plugin?
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Ordinarily, connecting plugins like this to Twitter can be a real pain. In order to solve this problem, we’ve written a straight-forward step-by-step installation guide to help you. It makes installation and set-up a breeze; you’ll be up and running in minutes!
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“WP Social Media Slider Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.4.10
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.9
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.8
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.7
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.6
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.5
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.4
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.3
- Add
wpsms-twitter-tweet
,wpsms-twitter-reply
, andwpsms-twitter-retweet
classes to Twitter posts
1.4.2
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.1
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.4.0
- Stay consistent with premium version number
1.3.7
- Fix bug related to empty shortcode attributes
1.3.6
- Stay in sync with pro version number
1.3.5
- Add a
Cache Info
panel to the settings, for cache related information and operations
1.3.4
- Fix bug causing some sliders to not refresh the cache
- Fix bug causing Twitter to sometimes not retrieve images with posts
1.3.3
- Updated social media urls to use secure urls (https)
1.3.2
- If AJAX Cache Refresh is enabled, posts will now be preloaded from the cache before page load. This removes the need for a separate AJAX request if the cache is still valid. If AJAX Cache Refresh is disabled, posts will still be preloaded if the cache hasn’t expired.
1.3.1
- Stay in sync with pro version number
1.3.0
- Fixed bug causing the
Remove Duplicates
setting to stay turned even when disabled - Various other small bug fixes
1.2.4
- Fix bug related to multiple sliders ont he same page with AJAX refresh enabled
1.2.3
- Update to Owl Carousel 2.2.1
- Make it possible to not load the Owl Carousel core files (if, for example, they are already loaded on your site). To skip loading it you can add a filter on
wpsms_public_js_filename
and return the valuewpsms-public-no-owl.min.js
. Similarly, to skip loading the core Owl Carousel CSS files, add a filter onwpsms_public_css_filename
and returnwpsms-public-no-owl.css
.
1.2.2
- Clean up code and remove unnecessary log calls
1.2.1
- Replace date_default_timezone_set() with a more widely compatible solution
1.2
- Tested and ensured support for WordPress 4.6.1
- Now supports multiple sliders on the same page
- Improved compatibility with other plugins using Twitter OAuth
- Fixed loader not properly fading out
1.1.10
- Tested and ensured support for WordPress 4.6
1.1.9
- Fixed duplicate settings headings caused by WordPress update
1.1.8
- Tested and ensured support for WordPress 4.5
1.1.7
- Fix bugs caused by update to Facebook API
- Added better access token functionality to prevent unanticipated token expiration
- Fixed bug that caused access tokens to expire
1.1.6
- Facebook now gives a more informative error message when it can’t connect
- Fixed an error causing Twitter ampersands to not display correctly
1.1.5
- Fixed a bug that was causing the failed retrieval of some extended access tokens
- Updated some code to improve compatibility with some other plugins
- Read more links all now open in a new window/tab
1.1.4
- Added the ability to use an access token for Facebook
1.1.3
- Fixed a conflict that occured if another theme or plugin was loading TwitterOAuth
- Added shortcode parameters for overriding social media options
- Improved compatibility with PHP 5.2.x
1.1.2
- The post cache is forced to refresh if settings were updated
- Added System Status information
- Added connection status indicator to the admin panel (incl. error information)
1.1.1
- Added option to omit posts under a set length
- Added option to shorten long posts and offer a “Read More” link
- Added a few more actions and filters
- Fixed bug that occasionally caused links to be incorrect
1.1.0
- Fixed a bug that occurred older versions of PHP
1.0.9
- Added option to enable/disable retweets
- Added option to enable/disable replies
- Fixed bug that caused Twitter to return incorrect number of tweets
- Improved compatibility with older versions of PHP
1.0.8
- Added log data option to the admin settings.
1.0.6
- Refactored much of the code in favor of a more modular approach.
1.0.4
- Added a notification when Curl is not enabled.
1.0.3
- The first stable release.