{"id":157698,"date":"2016-07-30T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/?p=157698"},"modified":"2016-07-29T05:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T05:41:14","slug":"yes-to-sliders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/yes-to-sliders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliders Don\u2019t Suck and Here\u2019s Why Your WordPress Site Needs One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sliders and carousels were a really hot design trend a few years ago. You would\u2019ve been hard-pressed to find a website that didn\u2019t have some sort of rotating element on the homepage \u2013 especially above the fold.<\/p>\n

But then something changed. Designers and developers started to abandon sliders for static imagery. As the interest in minimalistic designs and longer scrolling websites grew, sliding banners became a perceived distraction and threat to the rest of super simple designing. And if designers had chosen to apply any sense of movement to a website, it was contained in a parallax scroll, animated icons, or a video player.<\/p>\n

Still, there are some designers who will argue that sliders and carousels are effective design elements that help improve user engagement, when used correctly. We\u2019re going to explore the validity of this argument today and give you pro-sliders some helpful tips and tools to use in order to ensure user engagement within your website\u2019s sliding elements.<\/p>\n

To Slide or Not to Slide, That is the Question<\/h2>\n

Most design trends will face doubt or criticism at some point as newer, cooler ways of web design take over. So for many designers who are focused on simplicity right now, it may be difficult for them to understand how rotating content can fit into that ideal.<\/p>\n

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To carousel or not to carousel?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Not to Slide?<\/h3>\n

Here are some of the most common arguments we hear from the naysayer camp:<\/p>\n