[Feature Request] media file links and lightbox carousel in Slides widget

[jedwards1211]

Prerequisites

• I have searched for similar feature requests in both open and closed discussions and cannot find an existing request.
• I have verified that the feature is still missing from the latest stable versions of Elementor or Elementor Pro.

What problem is your feature request going to solve? Please describe..

I want the following features of slides:

• Caption shown on top of image
• Caption slide + fade in animations
• Ken Burns effect

But I also want to have the following features of image carousel:

• Ability to set link to media file (in slides, I have to manually paste the image URL)
• In the lightbox, I can cycle through images in the carousel (if I put image links on slides, the lightbox only contains the slide that was clicked)

Describe the solution you'd like.

The easiest solution would probably be a top-level Link: Media Files option on slides, just like Image Carousel has. If there are multiple slides, all of them would be available in the lightbox.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

I can tweak the caption position and hide the pagination of the image carousel with custom CSS, not that I'd like to go to the trouble for every image carousel on my site.

However, I don't think it's possible to add the Ken Burns effect or caption slide animations to the image carousel with just custom CSS.

Additional context

It would be nice too if adding a bunch of images to slides were as easy as adding a bunch of images to image carousel.

Agreement

• I agree that my request may be closed without action if it doesn't meet all the requirements.