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.

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Chris Scott

<p>Adds multiple post thumbnails to a post type. If you’ve ever wanted more than one Featured Image on a post, this plugin is for you.</p>


Multiple Post Thumbnails

Even though this plugin hasn't been updated in a long time, it still works great! So I guess there's just no reason for the developer to have it updated. ;-)
For me this plugin is one of the easiest ways to selectively add a header image. I want it on some pages, but not on others. Using the standard Featured Image function will set it foor all or none, so that's not flexible enough.
One suggestion for an update though:
Now you still need to add the following snippet to your theme's function.php.
if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')) {
    new MultiPostThumbnails(
        array(
            'label' => 'Secondary Image',
            'id' => 'secondary-image',
            'post_type' => 'post'
            'post_type' => 'page'
        )
    );
}
It would be great if the plugin did this automatically. That will also keep the plugin active if you switch themes. 
P.S.
To add the meta box to other post types, just add it to the snippet.
'post_type' => 'event' will add it for Events Manager, for example. ;-)



Still works great!

Adds multiple post thumbnails to a post type. If you've ever wanted more than one Featured Image on a post, this plugin is for you.

Effortless Category Featured Carousel vs Multiple Post Thumbnails