Creating a multi-page guide

Personally I do not know of a plugin that will help with this. Also, I can understand how a slider plugin would have been amateur hour.

I would suggest using a custom page template for your holiday gift guide article/section.

You can find more information about how to do that here: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/page-templates/

Perfect suggestion! Like I said, didn’t even know what I didn’t know.

I’m trying out SiteOrigin’s Page Builder as a wysiwyg template editor.

That is an option as well. Although, page builders can lead to inefficient page load speeds. Be careful what features of the builder you are using.

I would be interested in seeing the finished product once you’ve posted it for the public!

Good luck!