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<p>With Ajax Post Carousel you can display posts as a carousel using jQuery for animations. The widget only preloads a few posts and Ajax is used to load more posts as the carousel advances (this is very useful when you have hundreds of posts).</p>
<p>The featured thumbnail of each post is used for the carousel, so at least WordPress 2.9 is required. The widget can be totally customized using CSS. Only the basic styles are defined so the carousel works properly.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Posts can be selected from a category, a custom taxonomy or a post type.</li>
<li>Configurable number of posts shown in the carousel and number of preloaded posts (visible posts + posts loaded in the background)</li>
<li>Posts can be loaded in random order or using the default order (From most recent to oldest)</li>
<li>Carousel can be an endless loop</li>
<li>Title and excerpt can be shown. Thumbnail is always shown.</li>
<li>Can be used as a widget, a shortcode or a php function.</li>
</ul>
<h3>BETA</h3>
<p>Be adviced we are releasing this software as beta software.<br />
Our initial intention is to gather feedback and collaboration.</p>
<p>After testing and approval the plugin will launch oficially.</p>
<p>Send us your comments to plugins@8manos.com</p>
<h3>HOW TO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Carousels can be added using Widgets, Shortcodes or a PHP function.</li>
<li>You can use the default styles included in the plugin or use your own css. Explained below.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<p>This is the easiest way to add carousels to your site. Just drag the “Ajax Post Carousel” widget to an available area and configure all settings.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>You can use it to include carousels in your posts or pages. Add [apc-carousel] to use the default values.</p>
<p>All the options in the widget can also be used with the shortcode:</p>
<ul>
<li>random: Accepts 0 or 1. (default 0)</li>
<li>visible_posts: Number of posts visible in the carousel. (default 3)</li>
<li>init_posts: Number of preloaded posts. Equals number of visible posts + number of posts in the background. (default 9)</li>
<li>show_title: Whether to show the title of the post. Accepts 0 or 1 (default 0)</li>
<li>show_excerpt: Whether to show the excerpt of the post. Accepts 0 or 1 (default 0)</li>
<li>loop: Accepts 0 or 1 (default 0)</li>
<li>post_type: Slug of the post type. Accepts ‘post’, ‘page’, ‘all’ or any custom post type. (default ‘post’)</li>
<li>category: Slug of the category. (default ‘all’)</li>
<li>Posts can be filtered by taxonomy using: taxonomy-slug=term-slug</li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>[apc-carousel visible_posts=2 init_posts=8 show_title=1 show_excerpt=1 my-taxonomy=my-taxonomy-term]</p>
<h4>PHP Function</h4>
<p>The PHP function can be used in a theme template. The options and defaults are the same as in the Shortcode:</p>
<p>Ajax_Post_Carousel::show_carousel($random=0, $visible_posts=3, $init_posts=9, $show_title=0, $show_excerpt=0, $loop=0, $post_type=’post’, $category=’all’, $tax_filter=”)</p>
<p>$tax_filter uses this format: ‘my-tax-1=my-term-1&my-tax-2=my-term-2’</p>
<p>Example that returns the same output as the Shortcode example:</p>
<h4>Use your own CSS</h4>
<p>There are to ways to style the carousels using your own css.</p>
<ol>
<li>Copy the css file from wp-content/plugins/ajax-post-carousel/ajax_post_carousel.css into your theme directory and edit the copy.</li>
<li>Define your own styles in your theme stylesheet. Just use the carousel id, so your rules have a higher priority than the rules from the plugin (for example: #apc_carousel_0 .apc_thumb{border:none;})</li>
</ol>


Ajax Post Carousel

Widget that displays posts as a carousel, using jQuery. It preloads a few posts and Ajax is used to load more posts as the carousel advances.

Eugen Mihailescu

<p>WP MyCarousel is a multisite (network) plug-in that allows you to create for your website a responsive carousel having unlimited number of slides. All you have to do is to choose the sliding effect, few images, eventually to customize few attributes and that’s all. You may insert a carousel anywhere in a post or a single page or any other part of your blog.</p>
<h4>Major features included in WP MyCarousel</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports unlimited carousel definitions</li>
<li>Supports unlimited slides per carousel</li>
<li>Autoplay support (with progress feedback) and manual navigation</li>
<li>Supports four sliding effects : fade, slide, flip-horizontally, flip-vertically</li>
<li>no JavaScript; it uses only CSS stylesheets (thus it uses hardward acceleration)</li>
<li>carousel layout and navigation elements customization (size, color, shadow)</li>
<li>support for usage of inline shortcode in your posts (eg. <code>[wp-mycarousel id="123"]</code>)</li>
<li>support for individual slider description|annotation|link triggered at mouse events</li>
<li>support for JavaScript custom code execution on slide mouse click event</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>It was tested and works with IE8+ and all versions of Chrome, Firefox or Opera. It works both on desktop systems as well as on mobile devices. Works on any IIS6+/Apache/Nginx web server that has PHP5.3+ and WordPress 3.5+. Nonetheless it is WordPress multisite aware.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li>First create a carousel by clicking <code>Add New</code> button (specify a name, effect, eventually its size or some other custom attributes).</li>
<li>Add one/many slides with images from your WordPress Media Library (eventually specify an URL to visit at on-click event).</li>
<li>Insert the shortcode anywhere in your WordPress page/post like: <code>[wp-mycarousel id="123"]</code>, where “123” is the unique ID of carousel.     </li>
</ol>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (default) – always included</li>
<li>.pot file (<code>default.po</code>) for translators is also included</li>
<li><em>Want to contribute with your language? <a href="http://mynixworld.info/shop/localization/wp-mycarousel" rel="nofollow ugc">Translations are welcome</a></em></li>
</ul>
<h4>Feedback</h4>
<ul>
<li>I am open to suggestions. The feedback is welcome. Thank you for using or trying out one of <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eugenmihailescu#content-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">my plug-ins</a>!</li>
<li>Drop me a line <a href="http://twitter.com/eugenmihailescu" rel="nofollow ugc">@eugenmihailescu</a> on Twitter</li>
<li>Follow me on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/eugenmihailescu" rel="nofollow ugc">my Facebook page</a></li>
<li>Or follow me on <a href="http://plus.google.com/+EugenMihailescu" rel="nofollow ugc">+Eugen Mihailescu</a> on Google Plus 😉</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Note:</em> The plug-in is localized/translatable by default. Please contribute your language to the plug-in to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the <a href="http://poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">“PoEdit” application</a>.</p>


WP MyCarousel

Create with ease customizable and responsive carousel sliders.

Ajax Post Carousel vs WP MyCarousel