{"id":467927,"date":"2013-10-14T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.orlando.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=467927"},"modified":"2013-11-12T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:33:34","slug":"sliders-the-good-the-bad-and-the-technical","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/session\/sliders-the-good-the-bad-and-the-technical\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliders: The Good, The Bad and The Technical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sliders are one of the most popular functional elements included with themes, or added via plugin. Despite their widespread use, the value added to a site by having a slider has been increasingly questioned lately, with criticisms regarding click-through rate and overall site performance.<\/p>\n<p>As developer on version 2.0 of WooSlider, I\u2019ve been head deep in sliders for the past 6 months. I\u2019ll be using this experience in combination with research, articles and posts from others in the industry to look at what we as a community have been doing wrong, and right, in implementing sliders on sites. We\u2019ll see where sliders can be most effective, how they can be effective and what makes, or doesn\u2019t make, a slider a valuable addition to a site.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be looking at multiple free, paid, and bundled sliders to provide some insight at the wide variety of offerings, their performance, features, and ease-of-use in regards to creating a functional slider that will benefit the site and end-user alike.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the resources that will be referenced:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/shouldiuseacarousel.com\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/krogsgard.com\/2013\/sliders-suck\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rYqVtQgqsL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrislema.com\/comparing-premium-sliders-for-wordpress-by-performance\/\">Comparing Premium Sliders for WordPress by Performance<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Comparing Premium Sliders for WordPress by Performance&#8221; &#8212; Chris Lema\" src=\"https:\/\/chrislema.com\/comparing-premium-sliders-for-wordpress-by-performance\/embed\/#?secret=WX8ZmAtUhg#?secret=rYqVtQgqsL\" data-secret=\"rYqVtQgqsL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sliders are one of the most popular functional elements included with themes, or added via plugin. Despite their widespread use, the value added to a site by having a slider has been increasingly questioned lately, with criticisms regarding click-through rate and overall site performance. As developer on version 2.0 of WooSlider, I\u2019ve been head deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8798362,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1384623000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[427670],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[174],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-467927","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-designer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"November 16, 2013","time":"1:30 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"427670","slug":"tom-harrigan","name":"Tom Harrigan","link":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker\/tom-harrigan\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/467927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8798362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/467927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589510,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/467927\/revisions\/589510"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/427670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=467927"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=467927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}