Sliders are one of the most popular functional elements included with themes, or added via a plugin. Despite their widespread use, the value added to a site by having a slider has been increasingly questioned lately, with criticisms regarding click-through rate and overall site performance.

As a developer on version 2.0 of WooSlider, I’ve been head deep in sliders for the past 6 months. I’ll be using this experience in combination with research, articles and posts from others in the industry to look at what we as a community have been doing wrong, and right, in implementing sliders on sites. We’ll see where sliders can be most effective, how they can be effective and what makes, or doesn’t make, a slider a valuable addition to a site.

We’ll be looking at multiple free, paid, and bundled sliders to provide some insight at the wide variety of offerings, their performance, features, and ease-of-use in regards to creating a functional slider that will benefit the site and end-user alike.

Speaker: Tom Harrigan
Track: Developers