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HT Slider For Elementor
Simple and lightweight until a bug turns your slider into a blank space.
HealthyPoor rating
67/100
The plugin is lightweight but frequent bugs and compatibility issues undermine its utility for Elementor users.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
3.8★
12 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+4%
Holding steady
147 → 153 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.89★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · +4% in the last year
147/day a year ago→153/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayHT Slider For Elementor is a lightweight Elementor-compatible slider plugin with a mixed reputation — users appreciate its simplicity and Elementor integration, but recurring functional bugs and compatibility issues undermine confidence in it.
What people like
- +Straightforward and lightweight — does the basic job without bloat×2
- +Works well with Elementor's native features like element animations when functioning correctly×2
- +Responsive and helpful support team
Common complaints
- −Compatibility issues with other plugins, including Elementor Pro, reported to break the site
- −Multiple widgets (HT Slider, HT: Advanced Slider, HT: Post Slider) cause confusion, and some do not work at all
- −Template importing leaves Elementor pages blank and uneditable
- −Multi-slide bug: only the second slide displays while the first appears blank
- −Elementor animations do not work properly within the plugin
- −No documentation or tutorial videos, making the plugin difficult to learn
- −Background images cannot be added in the Advanced Slider widget
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.89★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.80★
- 25%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 12 total
Latest reviews · 12 analyzed
- 2025-02-02★★★★★Pluggin parfait, équipe au TOPbipbipdom5959dvdweb
- 2024-10-30★★★★★HT Slider For Elementormaratdtk1-shot
- 2024-10-23★★★★★Missing update!reinaldomfi
- 2024-06-04★★★★★Best Plugin for Sliderkrushnagnw1-shot
- 2024-02-24★★★★★Not workingshaooni1-shot
- 2023-07-15★★★★★Good pluginfocarest
- 2023-04-04★★★★★Hard to Usejosephthedeveloper56770
- 2022-07-27★★★★★Does the job and more.bobraynor2
- 2020-07-29★★★★★Allows you to slide everethingVooDi44
- 2020-07-16★★★★★The plugin does not work properlymojde
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to HT Slider For Elementor
Top Media plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
132
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
162
Prior 7-day baseline
124
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
621
Mean release-day peak (30d)
163
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-18.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.65
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
58%
5★ share in analyzed sample
25%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.83 → 3.89★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered