domclic

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.
<h3>✨ Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Category-based filtering – Display posts from any category using slug or ID</li>
<li>Responsive design – Automatically adapts to all screen sizes</li>
<li>Customizable columns – Set 1-12 columns per view</li>
<li>Auto-play functionality – Optional automatic slideshow with customizable timing</li>
<li>Featured image support – Shows post thumbnails with elegant fallbacks</li>
<li>Text overlays – Post titles appear as stylish overlays on images</li>
<li>Touch/swipe support – Mobile-friendly navigation</li>
<li>Keyboard accessible – Full keyboard navigation support</li>
<li>SEO friendly – Proper heading structure and alt tags</li>
<li>Lightweight – Minimal impact on page load times</li>
</ul>
<h3>🎯 Perfect For</h3>
<ul>
<li>Portfolio showcases – Display your best work</li>
<li>Blog highlights – Feature recent or popular posts </li>
<li>Product galleries – Showcase products from specific categories</li>
<li>News sections – Highlight latest news articles</li>
<li>Event listings – Display upcoming events</li>
<li>Team member profiles – Show staff or team members</li>
</ul>
<h3>🚀 Easy to Use</h3>
Simply add the shortcode anywhere you want the carousel to appear:
<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>Intelligent placeholders – Shows “NO IMAGE” placeholder for posts without featured images</li>
<li>Dynamic text sizing – Automatically adjusts overlay text for long titles</li>
<li>Smooth transitions – CSS3 animations for professional appearance</li>
<li>Navigation controls – Previous/next arrows and dot indicators</li>
<li>Mobile optimized – 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>
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>.
<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>
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.

Effortless Category Featured Carousel

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

Christian Foellmann

Ankit Pokhrel

Dynamically adds multiple featured image or multiple post thumbnail functionality to your page, posts and custom post types. This plugin provides you an interface to add any number of featured image as you want without writing a single line of code. These featured images can then be collected by the various theme functions.
Overview
Dynamic Featured Image enables the option to have MULTIPLE featured images within a post or page. 
This is especially helpful when you use other plugins, post thumbnails or sliders that use featured images. 
Why limit yourself to only one featured image if you can do some awesome stuffs with multiple featured image? 
DFI allows you to add different number of featured images to each post and page that can be collected by the various theme functions.
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A NOTE ABOUT SUPPORT: We’re here to help troubleshoot bugs, but please don’t set expectations early as the support forums at WordPress.org are only checked once in a while.
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How it works? 
1. After successfull plugin activation go to <code>add</code> or <code>edit</code> page of posts or pages and you will notice a box for second featured image. 
2. Click <code>Set featured image</code>, select required image from “Dynamic Featured Image – Media Selector” popup and click <code>Set Featured Image</code>. 
3. Click on <code>Add New</code> to add new featured image or use <code>Remove</code> link to remove the featured image box. 
4. You can then get the images by calling the function <code>$dynamic_featured_image->get_featured_images([$postId (optional)])</code> in your theme. (<a href="https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/Dynamic-Featured-Image/wiki" title="Documentation for current version" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for details</a>) 
5. The data will be returned in the following format.
<pre><code>array
 0 => 
 array
 'thumb' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage.jpg' (length=50)
 'full' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage_fullSize.jpg' (length=69)
 'attachment_id' => string '197' (length=3)
 1 => 
 array
 'thumb' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage.jpg' (length=50)
 'full' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage_fullSize.jpg' (length=69)
 'attachment_id' => string '198' (length=3)
 2 => ...
</code></pre>
Resources 
1. <a href="https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/Dynamic-Featured-Image/wiki" title="Documentation for current ver." rel="nofollow ugc">Detail Documentation</a>. 
2. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dynamic-featured-image" title="StackOverflow Tag" rel="nofollow ugc">StackOverflow Tag</a>.
MultiSite Info 
You can use <code>Network Activate</code> to activate plugin for all sites on a single install. It is only available on the Network admin site not anywhere else. 
Simple <code>Activate</code> activates for the site you are currently on. These will be permitted to be activated or deactivated on ANY blog.
While deleting the plugin from the <code>Network</code> be sure that the plugin is deactive in all installation of your WordPress network.
Contribute 
If you’d like to check out the code and contribute, join us on <a href="https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/Dynamic-Featured-Image" title="View this plugin in github" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. 
Pull requests, issues, and plugin recommendations are more than welcome!

Dynamic Featured Image

Works fine!

Dynamically adds multiple featured image (post thumbnail) functionality to posts, pages and custom post types.

Effortless Category Featured Carousel vs Dynamic Featured Image