Best plugin experience so far

Picking through WordPress plugins is generally a dreadful experience of installing and uninstalling half-baked and strangely designed candidates, but this plugin came up first on my search and has been a pleasure to work with from the start.

I did find it difficult to locate the option to automatically generate slides based on WordPress posts, but a quick tutorial video by the plugin authors thoroughly explaiend how to accomplish that task, even showing how to use an existing, static slide as a template for dynamic, post-based slides.

Also, the plugin performs well. The Gutenberg/Block editor team have a lesson or two to learn here regarding how to develop a visual HTML editor that doesn’t slow down the page, freeze, or crash. Throughout weeks of toiling work in setting up a WooCommerce shop that looks and behaves as intended, this plugin has always been a constant, looking good and behaving predictably.

I can strongly recommend Smart Slider. Well done.