Amitry Product & Category Slider for WooCommerce

Amitry Slider shows WooCommerce products or product categories in a clean, responsive carousel. Add it as a Gutenberg block, an Elementor widget or a shortcode, with no code required.

Most product sliders force every photo into one fixed frame and crop whatever does not fit. That suits packshots and spoils anything photographed. Amitry Slider can shape the frame around your photos instead, so portrait, landscape and square images all appear whole, with nothing cropped and no empty space. It is built for shops where the picture is the product: prints, art, antiques, photography.

It loads its stylesheet and JavaScript only on pages that actually contain a slider, so the rest of your site carries none of it.

Get the Pro add-on for premium designs, a thumbnail strip, a full screen lightbox, a category switcher for visitors, a masonry grid view and more.

Live demo: see the product slider, category carousel and every premium design in action on the live demo site.

In the wild

Two live photography stores run it, both used with kind permission:

• peteraphoto.com/about carries a product slider of around 620 images on the free version, which is a fair test of whether “lightweight” holds up at scale.
• peteraitchison.co.uk uses the Pro add-on throughout: a plain full-width showcase on the home page, and collection pages built from product categories with a thumbnail strip, arrows and a lightbox.

Why choose this WooCommerce slider

• No code needed. Add a slider with a block, widget or shortcode
• Product slider and category slider in one plugin
• Fully responsive. Separate settings for desktop, tablet and mobile
• Lightweight and fast. Assets load only on pages with a slider
• SEO-friendly. Server-side rendered HTML, content visible without JavaScript
• Works with any theme. Block themes (FSE) and classic themes
• Accessible. Keyboard navigation and respects the system reduced-motion setting
• Translation-ready. Ships with a .pot file
• Honest free version. Everything described here is in the free plugin

Three ways to add a slider

• Gutenberg block. Search for “Amitry” in the block inserter and add the Amitry Product & Category Slider block to any page or post, with a live preview
• Elementor widget. A dedicated Amitry Slider widget appears in the Elementor editor
• Shortcode. Drop [amitry_slider] into any content area

All three share one render engine, so every option behaves identically wherever you use it.

Popular use cases

• Homepage product slider. Feature your best products front and center
• New arrivals carousel. Show the newest products in your store automatically
• Best sellers slider. Highlight your top selling WooCommerce products
• Sale and deals slider. Display on-sale products, with an optional countdown timer in Pro
• Featured products showcase. Present a hand-picked selection of products
• Product category carousel. Help shoppers browse your store by category
• More from the collection. Add a slider of a chosen category to single product pages to keep visitors shopping
• Photography and portfolio galleries. Show uncropped photos at their true proportions
• Shop and landing page carousels. Add a product carousel anywhere with the block, widget or shortcode

Product slider

Pull products from any of these sources, chosen under Products From in both the block editor and Elementor:

• Newest products
• Best selling
• On sale
• Featured
• Top rated
• From specific categories, picked from a list of your own product categories
• Specific products by ID, using the shortcode

Show or hide each element: product image, title, price with sale strike-through, sale badge, rating stars, short description, stock status (with an “Only X left” note when stock runs low) and an add-to-cart button.

Category slider

• Show all product categories with an optional exclude list
• Sort by name, product count or menu order
• Hide empty categories
• Falls back to the first product image when a category has no thumbnail
• Optional product count per category

Layout and design

• Two card styles: Clean Card and Minimal
• Rounded, square or circle image shapes
• Aspect ratios: 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 3:4, 2:3 and 16:9, plus Automatic, which shapes one frame to suit your photos, and Follow each image, which gives every card the shape of its own photo
• Image Fit. Crop to fill for uniform cards, or show the full image uncropped, ideal for photography. Where a photo has a plain background, any space around it takes that color, and you can also make it transparent
• Content Alignment. Align the card title, price and other text left, center or right
• Max Width. Cap how wide the slider grows and center it, which keeps single-column sliders tidy on full width themes
• Adjustable columns per device, gap, card padding, radius and shadow
• Hover effects: lift, zoom, shine, lift plus shine and lift plus zoom
• Section heading, subheading and an optional View All button

Behavior and navigation

• Transitions. Slide, or Fade for one large image at a time
• Arrows, dots, scrollbar, progress bar, slide counter and keyboard control
• Autoplay with delay, loop and pause on hover
• Per-device control over which navigation appears

Block editor integration

The Gutenberg block keeps its options in the two sidebar tabs: Settings for the data source, layout, behavior, navigation and card content, and Styles for the card style, image, colors, shadows and hover effects. A live server-side preview shows exactly what visitors will see.

Shortcode

Every block option is available as a shortcode attribute. Write the option’s name in snake_case: the block’s titleColor becomes title_color and showArrowsMobile becomes show_arrows_mobile. The most used options also have short names, such as type, filter, count, aspect and fit.

[amitry_slider type="products" filter="newest" count="12"]
[amitry_slider type="products" filter="on_sale" slides_desktop="4"]
[amitry_slider type="products" filter="by_category" categories="12,15" aspect="each" fit="contain"]
[amitry_slider type="products" filter="manual" products="12,15,18"]
[amitry_slider type="products" effect="fade" fit="contain"]
[amitry_slider type="products" align="center" max_width="1140"]
[amitry_slider type="products" title="New in" title_color="#143a2e" show_arrows_mobile="false"]
[amitry_slider type="categories" sort="count" exclude="42,43"]

Values for filter: newest, bestselling, on_sale, featured, top_rated, by_category or manual. Values for aspect: auto, each, 1-1, 4-3, 3-2, 3-4, 2-3 or 16-9. Switches take true or false, and lists of product or category IDs are separated by commas.

Performance

• CSS and JavaScript load only on pages where a slider is rendered
• Optional caching of product and category queries, switched on from code with the wcsp_settings filter
• Images are requested at a proportional size, so photos keep their real proportions and no extra crop is generated on upload
• Swiper is bundled locally, with no external CDN requests

WooCommerce compatible

• HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) compatible
• Cart and Checkout blocks compatible
• Works with the latest WooCommerce and WordPress

Go further with Pro

Pro is a separate add-on that runs on top of the free plugin. Everything described above stays free, including choosing which categories a product slider pulls from. Pro adds the following.

Viewing and navigation

• Thumbnail strip. A row of clickable thumbnails below the slider, synced with the main image
• Lightbox. An expand button opens a full screen viewer with crossfading photos, a slideshow button, a full screen mode and swipe on touch devices. Each photo links to its product
• Hover Zoom. A magnifier lens follows the pointer and zooms into detail using the original image
• Grid View Toggle. Visitors switch between the slider and a true masonry grid of uncropped photos, with a control for the number of columns

Browsing and scale

• Category Switcher for visitors. A menu in the section head that lets shoppers switch between categories on the page itself. This is separate from choosing which categories a slider shows, which is free. Products load on demand
• Load More. Show one batch and append the next on demand, which keeps large catalogs fast

Selling

• Hover Image Swap. Show the second product image on hover
• Custom Badges. Automatic New and Bestseller badges
• AJAX Add to Cart. Add to the cart without reloading the page
• Quick View. A product preview popup
• Sale Countdown. A timer on products whose sale has an end date
• Wishlist. A heart button with a dedicated wishlist page
• Stock Bar and Low Stock Label. Show scarcity on low-stock products

Premium designs

• Overlay, Circle, 3D Carousel and Masonry

See the live demo, or get the Pro add-on.