Adding a Carousel Slider for WordPress

Learn how to add a carousel slider for WordPress Sites. This article shows you how to install the Carousel Slider plugin and create a Carousel Slider slider for WordPress.

Carousel Slider is a plugin that allows you to create a highly customizable, stylish responsive carousel slider in WordPress. The main features of Carousel Slider include the following:

  • Multiple types carousel, images from media gallery, images from URL, videos from youtube and Vimeo, posts, and WooCommerce products carousel slider

  • Hero slider with background image, title, description, call to action buttons and more.

  • Posts carousel, support Specific posts, Post Categories, Post Tags, Posts per page, Date range query and ordering.

  • Video carousel, support custom height and width (Currently only support video from Youtube and Vimeo)

  • Fully responsive.

Installing and configuring  the Carousel Slider plugin

To install Carousel Slider plugin, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your WordPress site with an administrator account.

  2. On the Dashboard in the left sidebar, click Plugins, and then click Add New:

  3. Search for "Carousel Slider", click Install, and then click Activate the plugin:

  4. The Carousel Slider plugin is listed on the left sidebar.

Creating a slider using Carousel Slider plugin on WordPress

  1. On the Dashboard in the left sidebar, click on Carousel Slider, and then click Add New to create a new slide:

  2. Give the slide a name:

  3. Scroll down to the Carousel Section to configure the additional parameters or settings for the Carousel Slider:

  4. Select the Slide Type from the drop down list:

  5. Click on Add Gallery to add images to the carousel images:

  6. Set additional image carousel settings:

  • Image Carousel Settings:

  • Autoplay Settings:

  • Navigation settings:

  1. To use these sliders on posts or pages, copy and paste the shortcode:

  2. The image carousel slide displayed on the slide:

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