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.

Tomasz Sita

<p>Plugin allows you to manually crop all the image sizes registered in your WordPress theme (in particular featured image).<br />
Simply click on the “Crop” link next to any image in your media library.<br />
The WordPress Media Modal interface will be brought up and you are ready to go.<br />
Whole cropping process is really intuitive and simple.</p>
<p>Apart from media library list, the plugin adds links in few more places:<br />
* Below featured image box (“Crop featured image”)<br />
* In the media insert modal window (once you select an image)</p>
<h4>Settings</h4>
<p>The plugin includes a settings page where you can configure:<br />
* Image quality settings<br />
* Visibility of crop options<br />
* Custom labels for image sizes</p>
<h4>GitHub Repository</h4>
<p>https://github.com/tomaszsita/wp-manual-image-crop</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Czech (AI Generated)</li>
<li>Dutch (Bernardo Hulsman)</li>
<li>French (Gabriel Féron)</li>
<li>German (Bertram Greenhough)</li>
<li>Hungarian (Roland Kal)</li>
<li>Italian (Alessandro Curci)</li>
<li>Japanese (AI Generated)</li>
<li>Korean (AI Generated)</li>
<li>Polish (myself)</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil) (AI Generated)</li>
<li>Russian (Andrey Hohlov)</li>
<li>Spanish (Andrew Kurtis)</li>
<li>Swedish (Karl Oskar Mattsson)</li>
<li>Turkish (AI Generated)</li>
</ul>
<p>Please contact me if you want to add a translation (or submit a pull request on GitHub)</p>


Manual Image Crop

Doesn't seem to work with add_image_size when used with a child theme's function.php using code like below:
/*---------------------------------------------*/
/* ADD CUSTOM IMAGE SIZES
/*---------------------------------------------*/

if ( function_exists( 'add_image_size' ) ) {
	add_image_size( 'facebook-image-page', 470, 470 );
}

add_filter( 'image_size_names_choose', 'insert_custom_image_sizes' );
function insert_custom_image_sizes( $sizes ) {
	global $_wp_additional_image_sizes;
	if ( empty($_wp_additional_image_sizes) )
		return $sizes;

	foreach ( $_wp_additional_image_sizes as $id => $data ) {
		if ( !isset($sizes[$id]) )
			$sizes[$id] = ucfirst( str_replace( '-', ' ', $id ) );
	}

	return $sizes;
}


Doesn't seem to work with

Support for this plug-in is very bad and it contains a few bugs. No response after a month..

Abandoned

Plugin allows you to manually crop all the image sizes registered in your WordPress theme (in particular featured image).

Effortless Category Featured Carousel vs Manual Image Crop