domclic

<p><strong>Effortless Category Featured Carousel</strong> 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.</p>
<h3>✨ Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Category-based filtering</strong> – Display posts from any category using slug or ID</li>
<li><strong>Responsive design</strong> – Automatically adapts to all screen sizes</li>
<li><strong>Customizable columns</strong> – Set 1-12 columns per view</li>
<li><strong>Auto-play functionality</strong> – Optional automatic slideshow with customizable timing</li>
<li><strong>Featured image support</strong> – Shows post thumbnails with elegant fallbacks</li>
<li><strong>Text overlays</strong> – Post titles appear as stylish overlays on images</li>
<li><strong>Touch/swipe support</strong> – Mobile-friendly navigation</li>
<li><strong>Keyboard accessible</strong> – Full keyboard navigation support</li>
<li><strong>SEO friendly</strong> – Proper heading structure and alt tags</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong> – Minimal impact on page load times</li>
</ul>
<h3>🎯 Perfect For</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Portfolio showcases</strong> – Display your best work</li>
<li><strong>Blog highlights</strong> – Feature recent or popular posts  </li>
<li><strong>Product galleries</strong> – Showcase products from specific categories</li>
<li><strong>News sections</strong> – Highlight latest news articles</li>
<li><strong>Event listings</strong> – Display upcoming events</li>
<li><strong>Team member profiles</strong> – Show staff or team members</li>
</ul>
<h3>🚀 Easy to Use</h3>
<p>Simply add the shortcode anywhere you want the carousel to appear:</p>
<pre><code>[elcfc_carousel category="your-category-slug" columns="4" autoplay="1"]
</code></pre>
<h3>🔧 Shortcode Parameters</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>category</code> – Category slug or ID (required)</li>
<li><code>columns</code> – Number of columns to display (1-12, default: 4)  </li>
<li><code>autoplay</code> – Enable autoplay (1 for on, 0 for off, default: 1)</li>
</ul>
<h3>🎨 Smart Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Intelligent placeholders</strong> – Shows “NO IMAGE” placeholder for posts without featured images</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic text sizing</strong> – Automatically adjusts overlay text for long titles</li>
<li><strong>Smooth transitions</strong> – CSS3 animations for professional appearance</li>
<li><strong>Navigation controls</strong> – Previous/next arrows and dot indicators</li>
<li><strong>Mobile optimized</strong> – Touch gestures and responsive breakpoints</li>
</ul>
<h3>💡 Developer Friendly</h3>
<ul>
<li>Clean, well-documented code following WordPress standards</li>
<li>Extensible with filters and actions</li>
<li>Custom image size registration</li>
<li>Conditional asset loading for optimal performance</li>
<li>Translation ready with proper text domain</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit our <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/effortless-category-featured-carousel/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> or <a href="https://example.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us directly</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Developed by domclic</li>
<li>Icons provided by [source if applicable]</li>
<li>Inspired by modern web design principles</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>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.</p>


Effortless Category Featured Carousel

A responsive carousel displaying posts from a specific category with featured images, elegant overlays, and smooth navigation.

cyrillbolliger

<p>Easily control the visibility of the featured image on singular posts and pages–while keeping it visible in archive pages, query loops, and other list views. This plugin provides a simple checkbox option within the post editor, allowing you to enable or disable the display of the featured image on individual posts and pages.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show or hide the featured image on singular pages and posts.</li>
<li>Seamlessly integrates with the WordPress post editor.</li>
<li>Simple checkbox toggle—no technical knowledge needed.</li>
<li>Compatible with most themes.</li>
<li>Supports WooCommerce product pages.</li>
<li>Lightweight and optimized for performance.</li>
<li>100% free—no ads, no upsells, no premium versions!</li>
</ul>
<p>Perfect for bloggers, content creators, and developers who want precise control over the visibility of featured images on a per-post basis.</p>
<h4>Important Notice</h4>
<p>If your theme uses a custom method to load the featured image (such as the Twenty Seventeen theme), this plugin may not work. To ensure compatibility, use standard WordPress functions like <code>get_the_post_thumbnail()</code>, <code>wp_get_attachment_image()</code>, or the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/post-featured-image-block/" rel="ugc">Post Featured Image</a> block.</p>
<p>Additionally, by default, this plugin only hides the featured image when it is loaded inside the loop. If your theme loads it outside the loop check out the first FAQ entry for a solution.</p>


Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages

It works!

I was able to get this working on Genesis Press themes by adding the following code.

function wp234_featured_post_image($v)  {
    global $post;

	if ( is_singular( 'post' ) && get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'cybocfi_hide_featured_image', true ) ) {
        return ' ';
	}

    return $v;
}
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_image', 'wp234_featured_post_image', 8 );

Works great!

Easily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view).

Effortless Category Featured Carousel vs Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages