Best thumbnail slider plugins for WordPress
The most popular thumbnail slider plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Responsive Thumbnail Slider leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Vertical Image Slider (1K+) and Slidr (60+). All 6 plugins tagged “thumbnail slider” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 thumbnail slider plugins
- 1.
Responsive Thumbnail SliderThe most installed thumbnail slider plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 23 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Vertical Image Slider1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 7 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Slidr60+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 4.
Thumbnail Slider10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 5.
CC Thumbnail Logo Slider10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 6.
HAQ Tabed SliderFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 6 plugins tagged “thumbnail slider”

Responsive Thumbnail Slider
Up in the last 7 days:22#5,096by Nks2 months ago
A fast, lightweight responsive thumbnail slider for WordPress — modern animation engine, lightbox, captions, and full theme/builder compatibility.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.4(23)
- Downloads
- 21/day

Vertical Image Slider
Down in the last 7 days:9#6,361by Nks2 months ago
A responsive vertical image slider for WordPress with a modern, dependency-free engine, a built-in lightbox, and a native Gutenberg block — or the cla …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(7)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Slidr
Up in the last 7 days:24#19,371by Giorgos Sarigiannidis25 days ago
A clean, simple, responsive and touch-friendly Carousel with no bells and whistles but plenty of flexibility.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Thumbnail Slider
Up in the last 7 days:2,020#44,735by Kuldip Makadiya10 years ago
This Plugin is used to display Custom Thumbnail Banner Image's slider in your page or posts. Display a awesome thumbnail slider in your wordpress …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CC Thumbnail Logo Slider
#45,335by sjrb10 years ago
CC Thumbnail Logo Slider is a compatible responsive Jquery slider. Use the given shortcode to get the slider or the given php code anywhere on your te …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

HAQ Tabed Slider
#70,392by Husain Ahmed2 years ago
Allows you to add fully customizable, responsive. This plugin creates an image slide in your theme. Build beautiful image slider, You can upload/delet …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day