Settings
Many people use YouTube videos on their WordPress site, because they load fast and watchable on any device. Thanks to Smart Slider 3 you can create a nice looking, responsive YouTube slider for free. There are many options to configure the videos to behave the way you want them to. For instance, you can make the videos play automatically, or to loop in your free video slider.
At each YouTube layer you have other useful settings. For instance you can adjust the video quality. Or you can make the video start again after the visitor has changed the slide and has come back to the video. Additionally, this free YouTube slider has another interesting feature: the thumbnail navigation.
A thumbnail navigation like this is easy to create. You can enable the Thumbnail control at the Controls tab of the slider settings. You can quickly add a YouTube video on your slide with the YouTube layer. Then you can set a thumbnail image for your slide, and set the type to video. This puts a play icon on the thumbnail image.
Layers
Each slide has one layer: a YouTube layer. The aspect ratio is 16:9 at all of the videos, and the Autoplay is disabled at the first, but enabled at the other slides. The paddings of the Slide and Content layer are reduced to 0px, so the video will take up the width and height of the slide.
Animations
When you switch a slide, the next slide will come in with a horizontal animation. This animation is the main animation of the slider. You can change it or remove it if you don’t want this kind of animation on your slider at the Animations tab of the Slider settings.
Layout
The main content of each slide is the YouTube video. Under the videos there are the Thumbnails of the slides which you can switch the slides.
Responsive
By default the thumbnails are hidden on mobile in Smart Slider. At that YouTube slider we enabled the thumbnails, so you can switch slides with them.
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