Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel

WP Carousel is a responsive plugin for creating Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery, and Video Slider in WordPress. It supports images, posts, WooCommerce products, and YouTube videos. Images can be selected directly from the WordPress media library and arranged with drag-and-drop. The plugin is lightweight, responsive, and works across all major devices and browsers. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ggJ4U5oi0] Live Demo | Video Tutorials | Documentation | Support You'll be ble to display Image Carousel & Slider: Create Carousels and Sliders by uploading images from the WordPress media library. Photo Gallery: Build image galleries with lightbox support and customizable layouts. Post Carousel: Display recent posts in a carousel with title, image, excerpt, date, and author. Post Grid: Show posts in a grid format with title, image, excerpt, date, and author. WooCommerce Product Carousel: Display WooCommerce products in a carousel with options to show or hide product name, image, price, rating, and add-to-cart button. Product Grid Gallery: Show WooCommerce products in a grid gallery with product details such as name, image, price, reviews, and add-to-cart button. Video Slider & Gallery: Create sliders and galleries with multiple YouTube videos. Features you'll love Drag & Drop Responsive Builder: Easily upload and reorder slides with the responsive drag-and-drop builder. Supports images and videos, letting you organize carousels and galleries in any order. Multiple Carousels and Galleries: Add and display multiple carousels or galleries on the same page without conflict. Carousel Controls: Enable or disable autoplay, set speed, stop on hover, and loop infinitely. Show or hide navigation and pagination dots with custom colors. Touch swipe and mouse drag are also supported. Responsive and Mobile Ready: WP Carousel sliders and galleries are fully responsive. You can set the number of columns and spacing individually for small, medium, and large devices. Lightbox Open images or videos in a popup overlay for viewing larger versions without leaving the page. Works across devices and is easy to navigate. Color & Styling Options: The plugin lets you customize colors and styles for carousels and galleries to match your site’s design. Multisite Support: The plugin can be used across WordPress multisite networks, allowing you to create and manage carousels on multiple sites from a single installation. Theme & Plugin Compatibility: The plugin is compatible with most WordPress themes and plugins, ensuring smooth integration without conflicts. Page Builders Ready

• Gutenberg Editor
• WPBakery
• Elementor
• BeaverBuilder
• SiteOrgin
• DiviBuilder
• LayersWP
• MotoPress
• CornerStone
• Themify Builder etc.

Multilingual Ready

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

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WP Carousel Pro WP Carousel is the free version of WP Carousel Pro. The Pro version includes additional features such as support for posts, WooCommerce products, custom content (text, HTML, shortcodes), and extended video options. It also supports WordPress pages, custom post types, taxonomies, and custom taxonomies. Video sources include YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Twitch, Wistia, Dailymotion, MP4, WebM, and self-hosted videos with lightbox support. See Documentation. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLoUb-7uG-5jNgTTcnUflIiytxgTWaBEzm] Watch all Tutorials » Author Designed and Developed by ShapedPlugin

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• PHP 7.4 or later
• MySQL 5.6 or later
• WordPress 5.0 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.

Version 3.0.0 – Sep 22, 2026

• New: The Carousel block with 4 source types (Images, Video, Posts, Products) and 2 carousel styles.
• New: The Slider block with 4 amazing slider styles.
• New: The Thumbnails Slider block with 2 content styles.
• New: The Tiles block with 9 different layout styles.
• New: AJAX pagination for the Tiles block.
• New: The Ready Patterns Library module with pre-designed layouts, categories, favorites, and a live preview drawer.
• New: The Saved Templates module to reuse carousels anywhere by converting blocks into shortcodes.
• New: Lightbox support for the core Image and Gallery blocks.
• New: Divi, Divi 5, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Oxygen and Bricks integrations on the settings page.
• New: The WP Carousel dashboard with Getting Started, Modules, Integrations, and Settings pages.
• New: The Setup Wizard and optional diagnostic data sharing, sent only after your explicit consent.
• New: Taxonomy filter options for post and product carousels.
• New: The lazy-loading option for images of blocks.
• Improved: The review notice now appears only after you have published your first carousel.
• Improved: The Tools page moved into Classic Shortcode Settings.
• Improved: The minimum PHP requirement is now 7.4.
• Tested: WordPress 7.1.2 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 11.1.1 compatibility.

Version 2.7.13 – Aug 18, 2026

• Fixed: Block editor compatibility with WordPress 7.1's iframed canvas.
• Fixed: Carousel not initializing correctly inside the block editor preview.
• Improved: Faster, more reliable asset loading in the block editor.
• Tested: WooCommerce 11.0.1 compatibility.
• Tested: WordPress 7.1 compatibility.

Version 2.7.12 – Jul 03, 2026

• Improved: The recommended plugins section now uses the plugins_api function for more reliable data.
• Improved: Hardened plugin security with proper capability checks.
• Fix: The undefined warning, which was rarely found.
• Tested: Compatibility confirmed with WooCommerce 10.9.1.

Version 2.7.11 – Apr 15, 2026

• Improved: The plugin security has been improved.
• Fix: Resolved styling issues in certain options with WordPress 7.0.
• Tested: WordPress 7.0 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 10.7.0 compatibility.

Version 2.7.10 – Jan 06, 2026

• Improved: Code readability and maintainability improved.
• Tested: WooCommerce 10.4.3 compatibility.

Version 2.7.9 – Nov 17, 2025

• Fix: The undefined constant issue was found along with the pro version.
• Tested: WooCommerce 10.3.5 compatibility.

Version 2.7.8 – Nov 16, 2025

• Tested: WordPress 6.9 compatibility.

Version 2.7.7 – Aug 22, 2025

• New: Carousel Source type: Pages option added.
• New: The option to show featured products has been added.
• New: Unlimited YouTube videos option added.
• New: The Slider Navigation: Top Right option.
• New: The Slider Pagination: Dynamic option.
• New: The Lightbox overlay color option.
• New: The Lightbox navigation arrow color and background color option.
• New: The Lightbox Close button option to show/hide it.
• New: The Overlay/Outside Close option to close the lightbox on click of the overlay or not.
• Improved: The plugin's options are enhanced to make it more user-friendly.

Version 2.7.6 – Jul 18, 2025

• Improved: The image alt tag translation case for the WPML plugin.
• Improved: The image alt tag translation case for the Polylang plugin.
• Improved: The plugin option data to save in the wp_options table.
• Tested: WooCommerce 10.0.2 compatibility.

2.7.5 – Apr 14, 2025

• Fix: The translation-related warning was found with WP 6.8.
• Fix: The help page recommended plugins logo URL not found issue.
• Tested: WordPress 6.8 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 9.8.1 compatibility.

2.7.4 – Jan 14, 2025

• Improved: The plugin security improved.
• Fix: The image delete option did not work rarely.
• Tested: WooCommerce 9.5.2 compatibility.

2.7.3 – Dec 02, 2024

• Fix: The translation-related warning was found with WP v6.7.1
• Tested: WP 6.7.1 compatibility.

2.7.2 – Nov 19, 2024

• Fix: The image lightbox did not show a full-size image when the carousel image size was set to small or medium.

2.7.1 – Nov 14, 2024

• Tested: WordPress 6.7 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 9.4.1 compatibility.
• Improved: Sanitize product image title attribute.

2.7.0 – Oct 25, 2024

• New: The Slider Layout option.
• New: The 2 Slider Styles (Slide, Flip) options.
• New: The Center Style option for the Carousel layout.
• New: The Flip Slide Effect option for the Carousel layout.
• New: The Video Carousel Slider Grid Feature.
• New: The Item Title option.
• New: The Item Title Source option.
• New: The Content Position Top option.
• New: The Items Vertical Alignment (Top, Middle, Bottom) option.
• New: The Carousel Pagination Margin option.
• New: Dedicated Image Info (Caption, Description, Title, Alt Text, Crop Position) Edit options.
• New: The Drag and Drop Image Ordering option.
• New: The Post Content (Full and Excerpt) option.
• New: The Post Comment option.
• Improved: The Style Settings tab is renamed to Display Settings.
• Improved: The Image Settings options are placed in the Display Settings tab.
• Improved: The Typography tab options are placed in the Display Settings tab.
• Improved: The How To Use Shortcode section moved to the right side of the page.
• Improved: The Carousel Navigation Vertical Center Position.
• Fix: The Fontello icon conflict issue was found with other plugins or theme icons.
• Fix: Some strings translation issue.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Tested: WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 9.3.3 compatibility.

2.6.9 – Oct 03, 2024

• Improved: The plugin security has been improved.
• Fix: The PHP 7.2 compatibility issue.
• Tested: WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 9.3.3 compatibility.

2.6.8 – Aug 23, 2024

• Fix: Some strings translation issue.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Tested: WordPress 6.6.1 compatibility.
• Tested: WooCommerce 9.1.4 compatibility.

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