{"id":147159,"date":"2013-08-03T21:43:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T21:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.buffalo.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=147159"},"modified":"2013-08-10T21:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:16:33","slug":"sliders-the-good-the-bad-and-the-technical","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/buffalo.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 some results showing that a slider actually hurts the site in terms of click-through rate, in addition to possible negative effects to the overall site performance.<\/p>\n<p>As the lead developer of the upcoming version release of WooSlider, I&#8217;ve been head deep in sliders for the past 6 months. I&#8217;ll be using this experience in combination with research, articles and posts from others in the industry to look at what we&#8217;ve been doing wrong, and right, in implementing sliders on sites. We&#8217;ll see where sliders can be most effective, how they can be effective and what makes, or doesn&#8217;t make, a slider a valuable addition to a site.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also be taking a look 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:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/shouldiuseacarousel.com\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/krogsgard.com\/2013\/sliders-suck\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sWZ0muleSM\"><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=BFR7g7zZmp#?secret=sWZ0muleSM\" data-secret=\"sWZ0muleSM\" 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 some results showing that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/session\/sliders-the-good-the-bad-and-the-technical\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sliders: The Good, The Bad and The Technical<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5795068,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1379169000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[147157],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[10406],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-147159","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-designdev"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iFEU-Chx","session_date_time":{"date":"September 14, 2013","time":"10:30 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"147157","slug":"tom-harrigan","name":"Tom Harrigan","link":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker\/tom-harrigan\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/147159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5795068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/147159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171553,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/147159\/revisions\/171553"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/147157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=147159"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buffalo.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=147159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}