Best slider carousel plugins for WordPress
The most popular slider carousel plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SliderX leads with 20+ active installs, ahead of Awesome WordPress Slider (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “slider carousel” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 slider carousel plugins
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SliderXThe most installed slider carousel plugin, with 20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
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Awesome WordPress Slider10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 2 plugins tagged “slider carousel”

SliderX
#25,918by Innovify2 years ago
Easily Create Attractive slider / Carousel On Your WordPress website & label up you site showcase experience.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Awesome WordPress Slider
Up in the last 7 days:3,921#41,914by jewel19948 years ago
Awesome Wordpress Slider is the most powerful and intuitive WordPress plugin to create sliders which was never possible before.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day