Paged Post Slider
Automagically turns multi-page posts into an ajax-based slideshow. Simply activate, choose the display options for your slider, and go!
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Paged Post Slider shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 60+ sites, is rated 3.4/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 31/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (60+ active installs)
- Low rating so far — 3.4/5 from only 7 reviews
- No update in 11 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.9 (latest is 7.1)
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Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Paged Post Slider stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| ajax | >100 |
| carousel | >100 |
| paged posts | >100 |
| pagination | >100 |
| slider | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 3.4 from 7 reviews
About Paged Post Slider
From the official readme · v1.5.3Description
Automagically turns multi-page posts into an ajax-based slideshow. Simply activate, choose the display options for your slider, and go!
NOTE: This plugin is no longer actively developed or supported. If anyone wants to fork it, check out the [github repository](https://github.com/spencejs/Paged-Post-Slider).
WordPress has an excellent, but little known, feature for splitting up long posts into multiple pages. However, a growing trend among major news and blog sites is instead to split up posts into dynamically loading sliders. While there are many slider plugins available for WordPress, none of them quite tackles this functionality. That’s where the Paged Post Slider comes in: it takes normal multi-page posts from WordPress and replaces them with an all-ajax slider that requires almost no setup.
What the slider does:
- Replaces WordPress’ built-in post pagination funtionality with an ajax-based carousel.
- Uses hash based URLs for easy direct linking to specific slides. This also preserves the functionality of the browser’s Back button.
- Automatically adds slide navigation and a slide counter (e.g. ‘1 of 5’) to sliders according to the preferences you set.
- Adds the ‘Insert Page Break’ button to the TinyMCE post editor so that you can easily split your content into multiple pages/slides.
- Provides an optional stylesheet for (very) basic styling of the slider navigation.
- Optionally allows infinite looping of slides.
- Optionally provides a link to view all slides on a single page.
- Optionally allows for scrolling back to top when each slide loads.
- Degrades gracefully. If the plugin is missing or uninstalled, posts will behave exactly like normal multi-page posts.
Demo:
See a demo of the slider in action.
Installation
- Upload the ‘paged-post-slider’ directory to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Customize your display options on the PPS Settings page
- Make paginated posts using the newly visible ‘Insert Page Break’ button in the post editor
- Watch the magic happen!
Changelog
Removes use of depricated has_cap function.
1.5.2
- Removes use of depricated has_cap function.
1.5.1
- Slight fix to javascript.
1.5
- Adds option to automatically scroll back to top when a new slide loads.
1.4
- Adds option to loop from the last slide back to the first.
- Adds option to display a “View Full Post” link below the slideshow.
- Refines Nvigation CSS.
- Better commented code.
1.3
- Adds support for additional permalink structures. Stuctures now include WordPress default, trailing slash, no trailing slash, ending in .html, and ending in .htm.
1.2.7
- Adds Paged Post functionality to Pages as well as Single Posts
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FAQ
Paged Post Slider: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 13, 2026
Is Paged Post Slider free?
Yes. Paged Post Slider is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Paged Post Slider safe to use in 2026?
Paged Post Slider shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 60+ sites, is rated 3.4/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 31/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Paged Post Slider?
Paged Post Slider is active on 60+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 13,169 times since it launched in June 2013. It was downloaded 74 times in the last 30 days.
Does Paged Post Slider work with WordPress 7.1?
Paged Post Slider is officially tested up to WordPress 3.9.40, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Paged Post Slider last updated?
The latest version, 1.5.3, was released on November 24, 2014 (12 years ago).
Who makes Paged Post Slider?
Paged Post Slider is developed and maintained by spencejosiah.
What are the best alternatives to Paged Post Slider?
The most popular alternatives to Paged Post Slider are zipaddr-jp (50K+ installs), SearchWP Live Ajax Search (50K+ installs) and WP-Polls (40K+ installs).
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