Webflow slider skipping certain slides?

Design help General
1

Hi,

I’ve been building this site for a client and am having a weird issue.

I have a Webflow slider element with 5 slides for customer reviews.

When I navigate through the slides both on the live site and in preview it skips both the 2nd and 5th slide but displays all the other ones in the correct order?

This slider pulls in customer reviews from the CMS. I know I could use finsweets CMS slider for this which I tried with little luck on this page before as well, I’m not sure if they are related? So fair I’ve got it to work as intended by just adding a new CMS element on each slide and limiting which item it pulls to that partial review. I didn’t think this was relevant to the slider issue but I wanted to include it just in case.
The design is fairly complex with lots of absolutely positioned elements not sure if this is to blame for something.

I’ve already tried to rebuild the slider from scratch and reorder the slides.

Any thoughts would be appreciated this one’s really baffling me!

Here is my site Read-Only:

2

Hi there,

While sliders can’t be automatically populated with dynamic content in Webflow, using individual CMS elements for each slide is a valid approach. To prevent slides from skipping, ensure each slide’s collection list is properly configured:

Each slide should have its own collection list with specific settings:

  • Set “Items per page” to 1
  • Adjust “Start at” to match the slide position (Slide 1 starts at 1, Slide 2 starts at 2, etc.)
  • Verify that the collection source contains enough items to populate all slides
  • Ensure the collection list is properly linked to your CMS collection

Double-check that all slide transitions and timing settings in the slider element settings are configured correctly to maintain smooth navigation between slides.

Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.

3

Debug by removal.

On each slide, make the collection list visibility: hidden ( settings tab ) and add a simple heading element on each, 1, 2, 3…

Publish to staging, you’ll see easily if the slider issue is related to the collection lists in any way.

4

Hey,

Thanks for your advice, I tried disconnecting the CMS elements from the slides but some of the slides are still skipping.

Do you know of anyone experiencing this issue with the Webflow slider component?

5

Sounds odd to me, I remember seeing you had an extra slide 1 at the end? Which is common for e.g. splide.js implementations but not Webflow slider implementations.

Beyond that I’d disable custom scripts, maybe interactions, something is interfering.

Generally in cases like this I’ll copy paste the whole thing to a new project to isolate it and then add features in one at a time until it breaks.