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Smart Slider 3 · Version history

Smart Slider 3 changelog and version history

Latest version
3.5.1.40
Oct 28, 2026 (12 days ago)
Releases
83
since 2016
In the last year
7
about one every 57 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20161 release
  • 20179 releases
  • 201812 releases
  • 201910 releases
  • 202012 releases
  • 202110 releases
  • 20226 releases
  • 20238 releases
  • 20244 releases
  • 20255 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.40Latest

    • Feature: Divi 5 module.
    • Fix: Hidden slide could trap scroll/touch/keyboard navigation.
    • Fix: Emojis in media titles, alt texts, or descriptions no longer break slide creation.

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.39

    • Feature: AVIF support.
    • Feature: Cache for the update checker.
    • Fix: Security improvements.
    • Fix: Animated webp images will be skipped from optimization.

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.38

    • Fix: Security improvements.

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.37

    • Feature: Posts Generator – we will now offer variables for tag links as well.
    • Feature: Iframed sliders will have aria-label attribute for better accessibility.
    • Fix: Improved compatibility with WordPress 7.0 – thumbnails were not displaying correctly at the backend.
    • Fix: PHP 8.5 compatibility improvements
    • Fix: File upload paths are now normalized to prevent upload-related errors.
    • Fix: Security improvements for the Export slider as HTML feature.
    • Fix: Sliders in Divi 5 editor were broken.

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.34

    • Fix: Vulnerability improvements.

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.32

    • Fix: Drag and drop image uploading did not work.
    • Fix: Iframe loaded slider code improved.
    • Other: Black Friday notification removed.

20255 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.31

    • Feature: Gutenberg block updated to v3 API.
    • Other: Black Friday notification added.

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.30

    • Feature: Alt tags for Youtube and Vimeo layer cover images.
    • Feature: Aria-hidden attribute added to not active slide backgrounds.

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.29

    • Feature: webGL background animation image smoothing can be turned off using custom js codes.
    • Fix: Vulnerability fix.
    • Fix: Empty lines at Posts by IDs generator will be filtered out.
    • Fix: PHP 8.2+ compatibility fixes.
    • Fix: Vimeo layer, YouTube layer videos couldn’t be started in some cases.

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.28

    • Feature: Accessibility improvements on bullets.
    • Fix: Filtering out unnecessary data from WordPress post generators.
    • Fix: Numpad enter triggers clicking actions too.
    • Fix: Thumbnail images will use their settings given size in their width and height html attributes.
    • Fix: On dynamic slides, the Youtube layer’s Cover image field turned its variable into the value.

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.27

    • Feature: The latest background animation limitations are hardcoded now, to avoid wrong usage.
    • Feature: Title attribute for slide thumbnail.
    • Fix: At WordPress Posts generators taxonomies with the same name overwrote each other.

20244 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.26

    • Fix: Customizer breaks in some cases.
    • Fix: Sliding main animation doesn’t moves slides together.
    • Other: Black Friday sale notification removed.

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.25

    • Feature: Improved accessibility.
    • Other: Black Friday sale notification added.

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.24

    • Feature: Hide layer when variable is not empty option at dynamic slides.
    • Feature: Asset (css, js) injector code improved.
    • Feature: Active thumbnails will get aria-current=”true” attribute.
    • Feature: Container element of bullets will get role=”group” attribute.
    • Feature: Aria-label option for the container element of bullets.
    • Feature: Blockquote option for Heading layer.
    • Fix: Some background animations are buggy in Chrome, so we rewrote them to use a different animation system.
    • Fix: Post IDs option cleared the given post’s cache at every page visit.
    • Fix: WordPress free installer will include unminified js and css files.
    • Fix: Generic font family names won’t have quotemarks around them.
    • Fix: Autoplay button didn’t have width and height attributes.

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.23

    • Fix: At WordPress Posts generator if you have a meta data or ACF data with a name already used as a variable, it can get overwritten.
    • Fix: Security improvements for image uploads.
    • Fix: Only allow files with WordPress allowed mime types to be uploaded.
    • Fix: The Resize and Convert to webp features could have issues with images from certain external servers.

20238 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.21

    • Fix: Previous widget rendering fix undone. Our widget will render, even when the theme doesn’t supports it, because you can use widgets in themes that way too.

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.19

    • Fix: Some WordPress 6.3 block theme editors (site editor, widget manager or page editor) won’t load next to Smart Slider.

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.18

    • Fix: WP Grid Builder conflict, which made WP Grid Builder’s checkbox filtering not work.
    • Fix: Gutenberg compatibility for WordPress 6.3
    • Fix: Extra mouse buttons (like “back” button) won’t open links in sliders any longer.
    • Fix: PHP8 compatibility.
    • Fix: Sliders did not show up on websites using Perfmatters plugin.
    • Fix: Wrong slider titles were written out within SiteOrigin Page Builder.
    • Fix: Sliders sometimes did not load on websites using WP Meteor plugin.
    • Feature: The “Image Width” setting of arrows and autoplay buttons are now available in the Free version too.
    • Feature: Playsinline attribute added to all videos, to avoid them being opened fullscreen by default on iOS devices.

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.17

    • Feature: Google font list got updated.
    • Feature: Norwegian language update.
    • Fix: Jetpack conflict could cause 500 Internal Server Error, or PHP error message appear.
    • Removed: JetPack Photon image optimizer option got deprecated, because it creates too many possible issues.

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.16

    • Fix: Block themes only display shortcodes instead of sliders in WordPress 6.2.1.
    • Fix: Beaver Builder row duplication issue, when Smart Slider is in the row.

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.15

    • Feature: Database managing codes got updated.
    • Feature: Norwegian translation.
    • Feature: Hebrew translation.
    • Fix: Gutenberg plugin conflict.
    • Fix: PHP8.2.4+ compatibility code.
    • Fix: Image layer alt tag and title was encoded twice.
    • Fix: Show editor icon option did not work in Text Editor mode.
    • Fix: Some database column length limitations got increased.
    • Fix: Meta (FB, Instagram) image files don’t always have the extension, which is indicated in their filenames. This caused issues with the Resize option.

  7. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.14

    • Feature: PHP 8.2 compatibility.
    • Fix: Touch JS codes won’t affect one slide sliders, for better scrolling experience.
    • Fix: Shortcode sanitization to strengthen security.
    • Other: Spanish translation update. Thanks Rodrigo!

  8. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.13

    • Feature: Google font list is updated.
    • Feature: Youtube layer will support youtube-nocookie.com urls too. But you should note, that still the YouTube And Vimeo Privacy Enhanced Mode setting defines, whether your videos come from youtube.com or from youtube-nocookie.com!
    • Feature: Private Vimeo url support for Lightbox.
    • Fix: Not selecting a slider in Avada Builder could cause PHP errors.
    • Fix: Compatibility fix for WoodMart theme.
    • Fix: MySQL 8.0 compatibility fix, where “system” is a reserved keyword so we’ll no longer use it as a column name.
    • Fix: Divi module changes ensure that Divi sets the proper slider. (You might need to re-pick your sliders, if you haven’t changed the default value at the Divi module, as in that case your slider was not saved.)
    • Fix: Avada Builder compatibility fix to ensure that the slider loads properly into the builder.
    • Fix: On the Smart Slider admin area the shortcode did not appear correctly when Gutenberg’s “edit slider” button was leading you to the slider settings page.
    • Other: Russian translation update.

20226 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.12

    • Feature: New Slide Library theme: Nala.
    • Fix: RankMath SEO compatibility that caused problems within the Media Library in certain configurations.
    • Fix: The last column could be deleted from the row if the row had a nested layer causing errors.
    • Fix: The notice at the Change Slider Type modal was fixed so it no longer writes out HTML code but actually bolds the texts.
    • Fix: Output buffer fix to avoid WP-CLI issues.
    • Fix: Ionos performance compatibility.
    • Fix: Usercentrics cookie consent plugin compatibility.
    • Fix: WP Rocket compatibility that makes Smart Slider automatically excluded from WP Rocket’s Delay JavaScript execution feature.
    • Fix: Compatibility fix for Zoho CRM Lead Magnet plugin.
    • Fix: Smart Slider will no longer break if CUSTOM_TAGS is defined.
    • Fix: Default value is set to Smart Slider Divi module to ensure proper slider selection.
    • Fix: Improved security to avoid Javascript codes from admin area fields.

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.11

    • Feature: Notice, when NONCE_SALT constant is not defined.
    • Feature: YouTube layer will support YouTube shorts URLs too.
    • Feature: The Export at the Bulk Actions will no longer create a zip file when only one slider is exported.
    • Feature: Notice when the Autoplay is enabled in a slider that contains a single slide.
    • Fix: Improved security during slider import
    • Fix: Analyze and Repair now fix auto_increment issues within the slider’s tables.
    • Fix: Split by words advanced generator function caused PHP error, when the length of the word was shorter than the start value.
    • Fix: Better specify Functions.php location to avoid problems in certain cases.
    • Fix: Finish autoplay did not stop at last slide, when carousel was turned off.
    • Fix: Improved check for minimum system requirements.
    • Fix: Save Fonts Locally option at Google fonts didn’t work.
    • Fix: ?ver query string added to the CSS file the Save Fonts Locally option generates.
    • Other: The minimum WordPress version Smart Slider requires is now 5.0. (WordPress 6.x is supported, too.)
    • Other: The Spanish translation is updated. Thanks, Rodrigo!

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.9

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.7

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.4

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.3

202110 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.2

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.1

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.0

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.5.0.11

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.5.0.10

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.5.0.9

  7. Smart Slider 3 3.5.0.8

  8. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.17

  9. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.16

  10. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.15

202012 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.14

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.13

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.12

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.11

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.10

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.9

  7. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.8

  8. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.7

  9. Smart Slider 3 3.4.1.6

  10. Smart Slider 3 3.3.28

  11. Smart Slider 3 3.3.27

  12. Smart Slider 3 3.3.26

201910 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.3.25

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.3.24

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.3.23

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.3.22

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.3.21

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.3.20

  7. Smart Slider 3 3.3.18

  8. Smart Slider 3 3.3.15

  9. Smart Slider 3 3.3.13

  10. Smart Slider 3 3.3.12

201812 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.3.11

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.3.10

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.3.9

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.3.8

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.3.7

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.3.6

  7. Smart Slider 3 3.3.4

  8. Smart Slider 3 3.3.3

  9. Smart Slider 3 3.3.2

  10. Smart Slider 3 3.3.1

  11. Smart Slider 3 3.2.14

  12. Smart Slider 3 3.2.13

20179 releases

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.2.12

  2. Smart Slider 3 3.2.10

  3. Smart Slider 3 3.2.9

  4. Smart Slider 3 3.2.8

  5. Smart Slider 3 3.2.6

  6. Smart Slider 3 3.2.5

  7. Smart Slider 3 3.2.4

  8. Smart Slider 3 3.1.10

  9. Smart Slider 3 3.1.6

20161 release

  1. Smart Slider 3 3.0.37

Questions about Smart Slider 3’s releases

What is the latest version of Smart Slider 3?

3.5.1.40, released on Oct 28, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.0 or later.

How often is Smart Slider 3 updated?

7 releases in the last year, about one every 57 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2016.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Smart Slider 3’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.