Descripción
Effortless Category Featured Carousel is a lightweight and elegant WordPress plugin that creates beautiful, responsive carousels showcasing posts from any category. Perfect for highlighting your best content, latest articles, or featured posts in an engaging visual format.
✨ Key Features
- Category-based filtering – Display posts from any category using slug or ID
- Responsive design – Automatically adapts to all screen sizes
- Customizable columns – Set 1-12 columns per view
- Auto-play functionality – Optional automatic slideshow with customizable timing
- Featured image support – Shows post thumbnails with elegant fallbacks
- Text overlays – Post titles appear as stylish overlays on images
- Touch/swipe support – Mobile-friendly navigation
- Keyboard accessible – Full keyboard navigation support
- SEO friendly – Proper heading structure and alt tags
- Lightweight – Minimal impact on page load times
🎯 Perfect For
- Portfolio showcases – Display your best work
- Blog highlights – Feature recent or popular posts
- Product galleries – Showcase products from specific categories
- News sections – Highlight latest news articles
- Event listings – Display upcoming events
- Team member profiles – Show staff or team members
🚀 Easy to Use
Simply add the shortcode anywhere you want the carousel to appear:
[elcfc_carousel category="your-category-slug" columns="4" autoplay="1"]
🔧 Shortcode Parameters
category– Category slug or ID (required)columns– Number of columns to display (1-12, default: 4)autoplay– Enable autoplay (1 for on, 0 for off, default: 1)
🎨 Smart Features
- Intelligent placeholders – Shows «NO IMAGE» placeholder for posts without featured images
- Dynamic text sizing – Automatically adjusts overlay text for long titles
- Smooth transitions – CSS3 animations for professional appearance
- Navigation controls – Previous/next arrows and dot indicators
- Mobile optimized – Touch gestures and responsive breakpoints
💡 Developer Friendly
- Clean, well-documented code following WordPress standards
- Extensible with filters and actions
- Custom image size registration
- Conditional asset loading for optimal performance
- Translation ready with proper text domain
Support
For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit our support forum or contact us directly.
Credits
- Developed by domclic
- Icons provided by [source if applicable]
- Inspired by modern web design principles
Privacy Policy
This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data from your website visitors. It only displays content that is already publicly available on your WordPress site.
Instalación
Automatic Installation
- Log into your WordPress admin panel
- Go to Plugins > Add New
- Search for «Effortless Category Featured Carousel»
- Click Install Now and then Activate
Manual Installation
- Download the plugin ZIP file
- Upload the
effortless-category-featured-carouselfolder to/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
Usage
- Create or identify the category you want to showcase
- Add the shortcode to any post, page, or widget:
[elcfc_carousel category=»your-category-slug»] - Customize with additional parameters as needed
Preguntas frecuentes
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How do I find my category slug?
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- Go to Posts > Categories in your WordPress admin
- Click on the category name you want to use
- Look at the URL – the slug is after
/category/in the address bar - Alternatively, you can use the category ID number found in the same location
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Can I use multiple carousels on the same page?
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Yes! You can add multiple shortcodes with different categories on the same page. Each carousel will function independently.
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What image size works best?
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The plugin automatically creates a custom image size (400x300px) optimized for carousel display. For best results, upload images that are at least 400px wide.
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Can I customize the appearance?
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Yes! The plugin uses CSS classes that you can target in your theme’s style.css:
*.elcfc-carousel– Main carousel container
*.elcfc-carousel-item– Individual carousel items
*.elcfc-title– Post title overlay
*.elcfc-placeholder– Placeholder for missing images -
Does it work with custom post types?
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Currently, the plugin only supports standard WordPress posts. Custom post type support may be added in future versions.
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Is it mobile-friendly?
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Absolutely! The carousel is fully responsive and includes touch/swipe gestures for mobile devices.
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Can I disable autoplay?
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Yes, set
autoplay="0"in the shortcode:[elcfc_carousel category="news" autoplay="0"] -
What happens if a category has no posts?
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The plugin will display a user-friendly message: «No posts found in this category.»
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Does it affect my site’s speed?
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The plugin is optimized for performance and only loads CSS/JS when the shortcode is actually used on a page.
Reseñas
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Registro de cambios
= 1.0.1
* Minor bug fixes and code improvements
* Escaped all output to ensure full XSS protection
* Improved placeholder handling for posts without featured images
* Optimized CSS and JS enqueueing
* Added more detailed developer documentation
= 1.0.0
* Initial release
* Category-based post filtering
* Responsive carousel with touch support
* Autoplay functionality
* Featured image display with placeholders
* Text overlay system
* Navigation controls (arrows and dots)
* Customizable columns
* Performance optimizations
* WordPress coding standards compliance
* Translation ready
* Accessibility improvements