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.

Samuel Aguilera

<p><strong>NOTE: This plugin functionality is guaranteed by more than 10,000 active installs. But before installing this plugin bear in mind that its only purpose is to ADD the feature image ID to your post (in the same way that you would do using WP editor), it does not remove ANYTHING after deactivation.<br />
Before asking for support please read <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-read-before-posting-4" rel="ugc">this support thread</a></strong></p>
<h4>How it works?</h4>
<p>Checks if the post (any post type with thumbnail support, including pages) has already a featured image associated, and if not sets it using one of the following methods:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Dynamically, for old published posts, the featured images are set only when needed to show them in the frontend. This means that the featured image is set (only first time) when a visitor loads the page where it needs to be shown.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For new content, the featured image is set in the publishing process.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>No options page to setup</strong>, simply install and activate.</p>
<p>If you want to exclude certain post type (e.g. pages), you can do it by using a filter. See <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> for more details.</p>
<p><strong>Easy Add Thumbnail doesn’t add any plugin data</strong> to your WordPress database. It simply adds the _thumbnail_id meta key with the ID of the attachment to be used as feature image (just the same that WordPress does when you set it manually).</p>
<p>Therefore it requires to have attached/uploaded at least one image to the post. If there’s not any image attached to the post, this plugin can’t help you.</p>
<p>Easy Add Thumbnail has not any control over how/when/where your featured image is displayed in your site, <strong>the display of the featured image in your site is TOTALLY controlled by your theme</strong>, this includes size, position, display it or not…</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.7 or higher.</li>
<li>PHP 5.6 or higher.</li>
</ul>


Easy Add Thumbnail

Automatically sets the featured image to the first image uploaded into the post (any post type with thumbnail support). So easy like that...

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