Splide Carousel — WordPress Slider Plugin
Splide Carousel Block
by David Jensen · WordPress.org page
Splide Carousel has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 37,996 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 27, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Splide Carousel at a glance
Is Splide Carousel well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Arrows Navigation
- Dots Pagination
- Slide and Fade Transitions
- Infinite Loop
- API to control the carousel using JavaScript
- Fixed Slide Width / Height
- Variable Slide Width / Height
- Number of Slides Per Page
- Slide Spacing
- Video Support
- Hash Navigation
- FSE (Full Site Editing) Compatible
Splide Carousel reviews and ratings
12 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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I LOVE IT
I'm always having to work with carousels, and hate them. They're always causing some kind of trouble. I finally forced a few clients to let me switch their themes to WordPress Gutenberg themes, which meant finding a suitable block version slider. After using the Splide Carousel plugin for maybe a year, and not thinking anything about it, until now when I swapped out some photos, well, I realized this is the best carousel plugin on the market. Ye old free wordpress repository. Worth its weight in gold. Thanks for making something that just works out of the box.
beatty67 -
Everything you want in a slider block, and nothing you don't
Flexible, well-implemented, performant, the barest of dependencies. If you care about not bogging down your page with massive libraries, this is the one.
Eric Michel -
Useful and lightweight
Useful and lightweight, hope to support Thumbnail Carousel
chrislaai -
Really well implemented
Does what it should and the block is good to use
choerzer -
Best slider block plugin
This is fantastic, very low on resources. Can you please add blocks for previous and next buttons so that we can place them according to our needs? Again, thank you for this free treat.
Ankit Punia -
Splide, my favorite slider/carousel now in WP
I pretty much always use splide in my non-WordPress projects, so great to see it as a block. So far no problems with it, and all the important options are there. I just wish there was a query-loop block for this, ( I would pay for this ) Keep it up!
cucom
Where Splide Carousel ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that Splide Carousel appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Slider Plugins | #49 by tag, not in search | #89 | – |
Splide Carousel alternatives
Plugins that solve the same problem, ranked by how closely they overlap with Splide Carousel.
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Carousel Slider 30,000+ installs · 4.3 -
Ultimate Responsive Image Slider 30,000+ installs · 4.5 -
WP Carousel 70,000+ installs · 4.7 -
Slider by Soliloquy 30,000+ installs · 4.7 -
Divi Carousel 30,000+ installs · 4.8
Details
Carousel block using Splide to create flexible and accessible sliders
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Rankings Splide Carousel competes in
Tags
- block
- carousel
- full-site-editing
- slider
- splide
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- Version
- 1.8.0
- Last updated
- Aug 27, 2026
- First published
- Oct 14, 2022
- Requires WordPress
- 6.5
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Splide Carousel FAQ
What does Splide Carousel do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Splide Carousel offers Arrows Navigation, Dots Pagination, Slide and Fade Transitions, Infinite Loop and API to control the carousel using JavaScript.
How many active installs does Splide Carousel have?
WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs for Splide Carousel as of September 7, 2026.
Is Splide Carousel still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 27, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does Splide Carousel have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 1 of 4 recent support threads for Splide Carousel are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Splide Carousel free?
Splide Carousel is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does Splide Carousel rank among Slider Plugins?
Splide Carousel is #89 in the WordPress.org Slider Plugins ranking.