Best vertical slider plugins for WordPress
The most popular vertical slider plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Gallery with thumbnail slider leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of jQuery Vertical Scroller (400+) and Vertical Carousel (80+). All 6 plugins tagged “vertical slider” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 vertical slider plugins
- 1.
Gallery with thumbnail sliderThe most installed vertical slider plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 9 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 2.jQuery Vertical Scroller
400+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 11 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 3.
Vertical Carousel80+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 4.
Vertical Client Carousel20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 5.
Vertically Client Carousel10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 6.
Stackfounder Vertical Card SliderFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago.
All 6 plugins tagged “vertical slider”

Gallery with thumbnail slider
Up in the last 7 days:7#3,926by Galaxy Weblinks5 months ago
Highly customizable gallery plugin with sliders, lightbox, vertical gallery, and batch image upload for WordPress.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.8(9)
- Downloads
- 25/day
jQuery Vertical Scroller
Up in the last 7 days:7#9,769by Vamsi Pulavarthi7 years ago
Use jQuery Vertical Scroller plugin to display posts as a vertical scroll in a widget, post or page. Supports multiple instances.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.8(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Vertical Carousel
Down in the last 7 days:83#18,135by Aftab Husain4 years ago
Display vertical carousel slider with the help of a shortcode.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Vertical Client Carousel
#26,265by Cynob IT Consultancy10 years ago
This plugin will add vertical client carousel slider in your wordpress site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Vertically Client Carousel
#46,863by Cynob8 years ago
This plugin will add vertical client carousel slider in your wordpress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Stackfounder Vertical Card Slider
Down in the last 7 days:11,496#66,529by pratyushphp5 months ago
Create beautiful vertical scrolling image card sliders with multiple columns, custom links, hover controls, and responsive layouts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day