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Slider Animation

How every slider and carousel on the site moves: whether it plays by itself, how long it rests on a slide, and how it changes slides.

The Most Popular carousel on the Signal demo, three post cards and part of a fourth with the previous and next arrows below, the carousel outlined in orange

A single slide slider on the Food demo under the Recipe & Cook Book heading, one post filling the frame with the slide dots at the top right, the slider outlined in orange

Where: Theme Options > Theme Design > Slider Animation.

Theme Options with Theme Design expanded in the section list and Slider Animation highlighted, beside the Slider Animation panel: Auto Play Next Slides on, Auto Play Speed blank, Slide Effect on Slide and Carousel Free Scroll on

Theme Design > Slider Animation: Auto Play Next Slides, Auto Play Speed, Slide Effect and Carousel Free Scroll

Four fields, and they set the behaviour of every slider and carousel on the site at once.

  • Auto Play Next Slides: sliders move to the next slide by themselves. On by default. Turn it off if readers should move the slides themselves.
  • Auto Play Speed: how long each slide stays, in milliseconds. It is empty by default, which means 5000. Hidden until Auto Play Next Slides is on.
  • Slide Effect: how a slider changes slides, Slide or Fade. Its default is Slide.
    • It applies to single slide sliders only. Carousels always slide.
  • Carousel Free Scroll: a carousel drifts to a stop instead of snapping to the next item. On by default.

What overrides it​

An Elementor slider or carousel block has its own copy of three of these fields. The block's value wins, for that block only. So one carousel can autoplay on a site where nothing else does.

  • Auto Play Next Slides on the block: the block's value wins.
  • Auto Play Speed on the block: the block's value wins.
  • Free Mode on the block: the block's value wins over Carousel Free Scroll. Free Mode is the block's name for it.

The Carousel Mode section on an Elementor block's Layout tab: Auto Play Next Slides and Free Mode on - Default - and Auto Play Speed blank.

Slide Effect has no block twin and always comes from here.