Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce Plugin

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Overview

WP Carousel is the most powerful and user-friendly WordPress Carousel plugin to create beautiful carousels with Images, Posts, WooCommerce Products etc. This plugin will allow you simply select images from WordPress media library, drag and drop them into place and also supports WordPress posts and WooCommerce products. It’s fully responsive, highly customizable and works smoothly on iPhone, iPad, Android, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Edge.

We believe that you shouldn’t be a coder or hire a developer to create a carousel for your WordPress site. That’s why we built the WordPress Carousel plugin that’s both EASY and POWERFUL.

WP Carousel 2.0

WP Carousel 2.0 has completely been rebuilt and this provides you now many improvements and new amazing features.

You’ll be able to display

• Image Carousel – Create beautiful image carousels with uploading images via WordPress regular media gallery. Easily drag and drop image slides.

• Post Carousel – Display WordPress latest posts in the carousel with post title, image, excerpt, date, author etc.

• WooCommerce Product Carousel – Display latest WooCommerce products carousel. Show/hide the product name, image, price, rating, add to cart button etc.

Key Feature List

• Fully Responsive and Touch-friendly.
• Lightweight, Fast & Powerful.
• Shortcode Generator.
• Extremely User-friendly Admin Panel.
• Create Carousel using images from media gallery, posts, products etc.
• Drag and drop image slides Re-ordering.
• Multiple Carousels. (Create unlimited carousels into same page)
• Multisite Supported.
• Set border for image slide.
• AutoPlay on/off.
• AutoPlay Speed Control.
• Stop on hover carousel.
• Infinite looping for the carousel.
• Show/hide Navigation and Pagination dots.
• Navigation & Pagination dots color.
• Unlimited color and styling options.
• Control carousel columns on different devices.
• Display random order.
• Unique settings for each carousel.
• Touch Swipe options.
• Mouse Draggable enable or disable.
• Multilingual Ready.
• RTL Supported.
• Widget Supported.
• Compatible with any theme.
• Advanced Settings to enqueue or dequeue Scripts/CSS.
• Custom CSS field to override styles.
• Developer friendly & easy to customize.
• SEO friendly & optimized for speed.
• Support all modern browsers: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Edge etc.
• Documentation and Video Tutorials.
• Fast and Active Support.
• And much more options.

For fast support, features request, and bug reporting

Ask us at Support.

WP Carousel Pro

WP Carousel Pro is the most powerful and user-friendly multi-purpose WordPress Carousel plugin to create beautiful carousels with images, Posts, WooCommerce Products, Contents (Images, Text, HTML, Shortcodes), Video etc. The plugin has own image and content management system and also supports Posts, Pages, Custom Post Type, Taxonomy, Custom Taxonomy, Custom Contents, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, mp4, WebM, Self-hosted Video with Lightbox. It’s fully responsive, highly customizable and works smoothly on iPhone, iPad, Android, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Edge.

It’s even easier to put images of different height together so the width is dynamic with fixed height so that your site looks pretty. The plugin vastly improves user experience and lets you create different types of beautiful carousels easily and quickly.

Popular Carousel Types

• Image Carousel – WP Carousel Pro allows you to create beautiful image carousels for your site in minutes! Upload images via WordPress regular media gallery, create a gallery to make carousel.
• Post Carousel – Display posts from multiple Categories, Tags, Formats, or Types: Latest, Taxonomies, Specific etc. Show the standard post contents: title, image, excerpt, read more, category, date, author, tags, comments etc.
• Product Carousel – Filter by different product types. (e.g. latest, categories, specific products etc.). Show/hide the product name, image, price, excerpt, read more, rating, add to cart button etc.
• Content Carousel (Slide Anything) – Slide anything you want based on your WordPress site. (e.g. images, text, HTML, shortcodes, any custom contents etc.) You can sort slide content by drag and drop easily.
• Video Carousel – Show videos from multiple sources: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, mp4, WebM, and even self-hosted video with Lightbox. A customizable video icon will place over the video thumb.

WP Carousel Pro Features

• All Sample Carousels (Live Demo in action).
• Fully Responsive and Touch-friendly.
• Advanced Shortcode Generator.
• Slide Anything. (e.g. Image, Post, Product, Content, Video, Text, HTML, Shortcodes etc.)
• Display posts from multiple Categories, Tags, Formats, or Types. (e.g. Latest, Taxonomies, Specific etc.).
• Add Unlimited Carousels. (e.g. post, page, custom template, widget or anywhere you want.)
• 840+ Google Fonts (Advanced Typography).
• Enable/Disable option for Google Font loading.
• 100+ Advanced Styling and Visual Customization options.
• Drag & Drop ordering Image, Content, Video.
• Image Internal and External Links.
• Image Carousel (with caption and description.)
• Image Content Position (Bottom, Right, and Overlay).
• Show/hide image caption and description.
• Slide border and inner padding.
• Lightbox functionality for images.
• Lightbox images group by the view.
• Smart lazy-loading option for images.
• GrayScale effect for images.
• Soft and Hard cropping option for image.
• Set equal or fixed height with CSS for images.
• Variable width option in the carousel.
• Image Title Attribute option.
• Post Carousel.
• Show the standard post contents or select which content you want to display. (Title, image, excerpt, read more, category, date, author, tags, comments etc.)
• Post excerpt and full content display option.
• Show Post Content with words limit.
• Show/hide read more button.
• Read more button text customization option.
• WooCommerce Product Carousel.
• Product content position (Bottom, right, overlay)
• Filter by different product types. (e.g. latest, categories, specific products etc.).
• Show/hide the standard product contents. (Product name, image, price, excerpt, read more, rating, add to cart etc.).
• Limit product description.
• Post order (Ascending & Descending) and order by ID, date, random, title, modified etc.
• Content Carousel
• Slide Anything you want based on your website. (e.g. images, text, HTML, shortcodes, any custom contents etc.)
• Video Carousel.
• Video icon color customization.
• Add video caption and description.
• Add custom video thumbnail for the Self-hosted Video.
• Custom CSS field to override styles.
• Display carousel section title.
• Set margin-bottom for the section title.
• Scripts Enqueue or Dequeue options to avoid conflicts.
• Carousel Mode (Standard, Ticker and Center Mode).
• AutoPlay on/off.
• Control AutoPlay and Pagination speed.
• Stop on hover carousel.
• Infinite looping for the carousel.
• Touch, swipe or tap on Android, iOS or any other touch devices.
• Mouse Draggable options.
• Adaptive height for the carousel.
• Enable or Disable carousel scroll with tab and keyboard.
• Set the number of slides to scroll.
• Show/hide carousel navigation and pagination dots.
• 8+ Different navigation positions.
• 6 FontAwesome directional icons.
• Hide navigation border and background.
• Set carousel pagination dots margin.
• Unlimited colors and styling options.
• Different types of sliding and hover effects.
• Control carousel column on different devices.
• Duplicate or clone carousels.
• Multisite supported.
• Automatic update integration.
• Widget ready.
• RTL supported.
• Compatible with any theme or extension.
• Support all browsers: Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari etc.
• SEO friendly & optimized for speed.
• Extensive Online docs & Video Tutorials.
• Fast and friendly support.
• Any new features we add in the future (which is often).
• Full list of PRO features.

Multilingual Ready

• WPML
• Polylang
• qTranslate-x
• GTranslate
• Google Language Translator
• WPGlobus

Page Builders Ready

• Gutenberg (WordPress 5.0.2)
• WPBakery
• Elementor
• BeaverBuilder
• SiteOrgin
• DiviBuilder
• LayersWP
• MotoPress
• CornerStone
• Themify Builder etc.

WP Carousel Pro – Admin Panel Overview

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Premium Support and Documentation

The premium version of the plugin entitles you to get fast, friendly, and priority support with replies posted within 24 hours (without holidays). Please submit a support ticket here. This will create a support thread in our support portal.

For documentation and tutorials go to our Documentation.

Author

Designed and Developed by ShapedPlugin

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• PHP 5.6 or later
• MySQL 5.6 or later
• WordPress 4.5 or later

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working

AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION (EASIEST WAY)

To do an automatic install of WP Carousel, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and
click Add New.
In the search field type “WP Carousel”. Once you have found it you can install it by simply
clicking “Install Now” and then “Activate”.

MANUAL INSTALLATION

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

• Download wp-carousel-free.zip
• Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
• Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
• Select wp-carousel-free.zip from your computer
• Click ‘Install Now’
• Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

• Download wp-carousel-free.zip
• Extract the wp-carousel-free directory to your computer
• Upload the wp-carousel-free directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
• Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin.

1. 

   Live Demo.

2. 

   Carousel Settings.

3. 

   General Settings (Image Carousel).

4. 

   Style Settings.

5. 

   Post Carousel.

6. 

   Product Carousel.

7. 

   All Carousels.

8. 

   Advanced Settings.

9. 

   Custom CSS.

10. 

    Drag & Drop Image Re-order.

2.6.7 – Jul 18, 2024

• Tested: WordPress 6.6 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 9.1.2 compatibility.

2.6.6 – Jun 05, 2024

• Tested: WooCommerce 8.9.2 compatibility.

2.6.5 – May 02, 2024

• Fix: The AutoPlay Delay Time and Speed options were not working from v2.6.0.
• Fix: The style issue of rating star with storefront theme.
• Tested: WordPress 6.5.2 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 8.8.3 compatibility.

2.6.4 – Apr 05, 2024

• Improved: The plugin security improved.
• Improved: The horizontal alignment of the images is set to center aligned in the image carousel.
• Tested: WooCommerce 8.7.0 compatibility.

2.6.3 – Apr 03, 2024

• Fix: The warning was found when the plugin was activated via the WP-Cli command.
• Tested: WordPress 6.5 compatibility.

2.6.2 – Jan 23, 2024

• Improved: The Help Page has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly.
• Improved: The Order By default value of post/product is set to ‘date’ and Order to ‘descending’.
• Fix: The Fontello icon conflicts with other plugins’ Fontello icons.
• Tested: WooCommerce 8.5.1 compatibility.

2.6.1 – Jan 11, 2024

• Fix: The warning found after updating to the latest if the database updater does not run.

2.6.0 – Jan 05, 2024

• New: The Zoom In, Zoom Out feature
• Improved: The Tool Tip/Help text of the plugin options to make it more user-friendly.
• Improved: The Margin Bottom of the Section Title option has moved to the Typography Section.
• Improved: SVG icons have been optimized.
• Improved: The Carousel options were reorganized by the Nested Tab system.
• Improved: The Carousel Navigation and Pagination’s Hide in mobile option have been separated.
• Improved: Set the default image size to medium size.
• Improved: The Lightbox options were reorganized by the Nested Tab system.
• Fixed: The issue that the navigation right does not show in mobile view.

2.5.10 – Nov 09, 2023

• New: To add anything before and after the rating star, two hooks, ‘wpcp_before_product_rating_woocommerce,’ and ‘wpcp_after_product_rating_woocommerce.’
• Fix: The image counter in the lightbox displays incorrect numbers when using the lightbox with the image carousel.
• Tested: WordPress 6.4.1 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 8.2.2 compatibility.

2.5.9 – Oct 19, 2023

• New: The Quick View option to show the Quick View button in the product slider/grid.
• New: The Show Brands option to show the brand’s name in the product slider/grid.
• Improved: The plugin was compatible with the Quick View for WooCommerce and Smart Brands for WooCommerce plugins.
• Fix: Some PHPCS warnings found with PHP v8.2.
• Tested: WooCommerce 8.2.1 compatibility.
• Tested: WordPress 6.3.2 compatibility.

2.5.8 – Jul 28, 2023

• Fix: The plugin admin panel translation is not working if the language file is placed in the plugin language folder.
• Updated: Minimum required version of WordPress for the plugin.
• Tested: WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) feature compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 7.9.0 compatibility.
• Tested: WordPress 6.3 compatibility.

2.5.7 – Jun 04, 2023

• New: The Lightbox feature for the image type.

2.5.6 – May 30, 2023

• Improved: The import feature with animation.
• Fix: The warning if the space-between value is set to empty.
• Tested: WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility.

2.5.5 – Apr 13, 2023

• Improved: Some string translation improved.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Fix: The font awesome icons of the plugin conflicts with other plugin icon.
• Tested: WordPress 6.2 compatibility.

2.5.4 – Mar 03, 2023

• New: The Load Script for Ajax Theme option was added to the settings page for Ajax theme compatibility.
• Fix: The conflict among plugin Fontello icons with other plugin/theme icons.
• Fix: The style conflict of the WP Carousel Plugin with the Radio Play plugin.
• Fix: The style issue when product rating is shown in the product carousel.

2.5.3 – Dec 21, 2022

• Fix: Few warnings for deprecated shortcodes.
• Improved: Plugin security improved.

2.5.2 – Dec 13, 2022

• New: The grid pagination alignment option of post and product type.
• New: The grid pagination text, bg, and border color option for post and product type.
• Improved: The post meta is placed above the post title to improve the layout style.
• Fix: The custom CSS does not override static CSS in the preview.
• Fix: The empty p tag before post content of the post grid or carousel.
• Tested: WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 7.1.1 compatibility.

2.5.1 – Nov 11, 2022

• Improved: Load dynamic style according to the shortcode on the page.
• Fix: Dequeue Assets option does not work when the Elementor plugin is enabled.
• Tested: WooCommerce 7.1.0 compatibility.
• Tested: WordPress 6.1 compatibility.

2.5.0 – Sept 30, 2022

• New: The Free mode of Carousel layout.
• Fix: Border width value 0 or empty does not work.
• Fix: Grid layout breaks when the unclosed comment remains in the custom CSS field.

2.4.12 – Sept 23, 2022

• New: Item vertical gap added.
• Improved: Help page.

2.4.11 – Sept 19, 2022

• Improved: Migrated from Slick to Swiper for carousel layout.
• Fix: Navigation icon issue at Gutenberg edit page with Astra theme.

2.4.10 – Aug 29, 2022

• Fix: WP Carousel does not works properly inside tab content of WP Tabs Pro.
• Removed: Unused codes and assets from the plugin.

2.4.9 – Aug 01, 2022

• Fix: The export option does not work properly along with the WP Debugging plugin.
• Tested: WooCommerce 6.7.0 compatibility.

2.4.8 – Jun 11, 2022

• Improved: Move Gutenberg assets to the assets folder from src.
• Fix: The premium page warnings.
• Fix: The popup video position on the premium page.

2.4.7 – May 21, 2022

• Tested: WordPress 6.0 compatibility.
• Fix: CSS warning if the margin-bottom of section title leaves empty.
• Fix: Hide the Carousel Settings tab when the gallery layout is selected.

2.4.6 – Apr 30, 2022

• Improved: SVG preloading icon has been added as a pre-loader image.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Fix: Some assets of the backend don’t load properly when the hosting directory is different.
• Fix: RTL Slider direction issue.

2.4.5 – Apr 16, 2022

• Tested: WooCommerce 6.4.1 compatibility.
• Fix: ‘Helper’ class conflict with ‘AWS for WordPress’ plugin
• Fix: Deprecated warning for Elementor block of WP Carousel.
• Fix: Undefined warning found during plugin deletion.
• Fix: Correct posts are not shown in the second language when the WPML plugin is used.
• Removed: The TinyMCE button from the classic editor.

2.4.4 – Feb 23, 2022

• New: Elementor Addons for WP Carousel.
• New: The alt tag of the preloader image is added.
• Fix: WordPress 5.9 Gutenberg block compatibility issue.

2.4.3 – Jan 26, 2022

• Tested: WooCommerce 6.1.1 compatibility.
• Tested: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.

2.4.2 – Jan 10, 2022

• New: Gutenberg Block added.

2.4.1 – Dec 06, 2021

• New: Shortcode Live Preview added.
• Fix: Some minor issues.
• Improved: Hook added for WPML filter (suppress_filters).

2.4.0 – Nov 15, 2021

• New: Image/photo gallery added.
• New: Posts Grid added.
• New: WooCommerce Products Grid added.
• New: Template overriding/modification options.
• Improved: Plugin settings text.
• Fix: Several minor tweaking.
• Tested: WooCommerce 5.9.0 compatibility.

2.3.3 – Nov 04, 2021

• Fix: Image alt text issue.
• Improved: Settings page “Save Changes” and “Reset Tab” button.
• Improved: Backed shortcode panel options.
• Removed: “Reset All” button.

2.3.2 – Oct 14, 2021

• New: Responsive breakpoints added.

2.3.1 – Sep 27, 2021

• New: Image Lazy Load option.
• Tested: WooCommerce 5.7.1 compatibility.

2.3.0 – Sep 09, 2021

• Updated: Plugin framework.
• Fix: Minor tweaking.

2.2.2 – Aug 13, 2021

• Fix: Plugin security issue.

2.2.1 – Jul 15, 2021

• Improved: Accessibility color and backend typo.
• Tested: WooCommerce 5.5.1 compatibility.
• Tested: WordPress 5.8 compatibility.

2.2.0 – Jun 22, 2021

• New: Export and Import option.
• Tested: WooCommerce 5.4.1 compatibility.

2.1.20 – Jun 05, 2021

• New: Carousel direction(Right to Left and Left to Right) option.
• Tested: WooCommerce 5.3.0 compatibility.

2.1.19 – Apr 16, 2021

• Improved: AutoPlay dependency with Pause on Hover.
• Fix: Premium page responsive issue.

2.1.18 – Mar 25, 2021

• Fix: Shortcode selectable field responsive issue.
• Improved: Help page.
• Removed: Some metabox options subtitle.

2.1.17 – Mar 13, 2021

• New: Shortcode onClick copy option.
• Improved: Settings page.
• Fix: Content position image loading issue in backend.
• Fix: Preloader issue on jQuery .
• Tested: WordPress 5.7 compatibility.

2.1.16 – Dec 30, 2020

• Fix: Version compatibility issue.

2.1.15 – Dec 29, 2020

• Fix: Dynamic CSS issue.
• Tested: WordPress 5.6 version.
• Tested: WooCommerce 4.8.0 version.

2.1.14 – Nov 25, 2020

• Tested: WooCommerce 4.7.1 version.

2.1.13 – Oct 15, 2020

• Fix: Section title issue.
• Fix: Dynamic CSS issue.

2.1.12 – Oct 10, 2020

• New: Swipe to slide option.
• Improved: Load dynamic CSS on header.
• Fix: Preloader issue.

2.1.11 – Aug 14, 2020

• Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatibility issue.
• Fix: Undefined variable: outline issue.

2.1.10 – Jul 09, 2020

• Fix: Image height issue.
• Fix: WooCommerce compatibility issue.
• Fix: WP Team plugin compatibility issue.

2.1.9 – Feb 11, 2020

• Fix: Conflict with WP Tabs plugin.

2.1.8 – Jan 07, 2020

• Improved: Shortcode level spelling correction.

2.1.7 – Dec 04, 2019

• Fix: HTTP and HTTPS mixed content issue.
• Fix: Undefined index php notice.

2.1.6 – Nov 23, 2019

• Fix: WordPress 5.3 compatibility issue.

2.1.5 – Nov 02, 2019

• Fix: User capabilities issue.

2.1.4 – Sep 04, 2019

• Fix: Google fonts loading issue.

2.1.3 – Jul 13, 2019

• Fix: Undefined index error notice.

2.1.2 – Jul 02, 2019

• Fix: Preloader image lod issue.
• Improved: Admin dashboard.

2.1.1 – MAY 25, 2019

• New: Swipe to Slide option.
• Fix: Border backward compatibility issue.
• Fix: AutoPlay Speed backward compatibility issue.
• Fix: Pagination Speed backward compatibility issue.

2.1.0 – May 25, 2019

• New: Carousel preloader added.
• New: Data remove option on uninstall plugin.
• New: Image width and height attributes added.
• New: Plugin CSS and JS assets have been minified.
• Improved: Carousel direction improved for RTL language.
• Fix: WordPress 5.2.1 compatibility issue.
• Fix: Border issue for product image.

2.0.2

• Fix: Elementor conflict issue.

2.0.1

• Fix: WordPress 5.1 compatible issue.

2.0.0

• New: Admin Dashboard Panel.
• New: Shortcode Generator.
• New: Drag and drop image slides Re-ordering.
• New: Post Carousel.
• New: WooCommerce Product Carousel.
• New: Multilingual Ready.
• New: Multisite Supported.
• New: Widget Supported.
• New: Carousel Section Title.
• New: Choose available sizes.
• New: Custom CSS options.
• New: Advanced Settings (Enqueue/Dequeue).
• New: Image Title Attribute.
• New: Slider border option.
• New: Navigation and Pagination hide on mobile option.
• New: Price, Rating, Add to Cart show and hide option for Product Carousel.

1.4.9

• Fix: Image size issue.

1.4.8

• Fix: Carousel position issue.

1.4.7

• Fix: Image max-width issue.

1.4.6

• Help page updated.

1.4.5

• Loading broken issue fixed.

1.4.4

• Multiple carousel on same page issue fixed

1.4.3

• Add infinite loop
• Display items limit option
• Bullets on/off
• Navigation on/off
• AutoPlay on/off
• Small desktop, Tablet, Mobile items limit option

1.4.2

• Fixed conflict issue for some themes

1.4.1

• PHP code cleaning

1.4

• Fixed navigation css issue

1.3

• Fixed navigation issue

1.2

• Fixed error

1.1

• Fixed autoPlay

1.0

• First Release