Apanika Featured Product Carousel

Apanika Featured Product Carousel Block

Elevate your WooCommerce store with this lightweight Gutenberg block that creates stunning featured product carousels in seconds. Perfect for highlighting promotions, bestsellers, or seasonal items.

Key Features:
✅ Smart Product Display – Automatically showcases WooCommerce featured products
✅ Fully Customizable – Control products per row, total items, and slide behavior
✅ Enhanced Shopping Experience – Optional star ratings and add-to-cart buttons
✅ Visual Customization – Custom background colors to match your brand
✅ Mobile-Ready – Fully responsive design works on all devices
✅ Lightweight – No bloat, just fast-loading product displays

Ideal For:

Homepage featured product sections

Category page highlights

Sales and promotion banners

"Best Sellers" or "New Arrivals" displays

Requirements:

WordPress 5.8+

WooCommerce 5.0+

Gutenberg editor

Quick Start:

Add the block to any page

Configure your display preferences

Publish - no coding needed!

Optimized for performance and seamlessly integrates with your existing WordPress theme.

Key Features

• Drag-and-drop Gutenberg block integration
• Customizable products per row (1-6)
• Toggle star ratings and add-to-cart buttons
• Adjustable background colors
• Mobile-responsive design
• Works with any WordPress theme

Usage

1. Edit any page/post with Gutenberg editor
2. Click the ‘+’ button to add a new block
3. Search for “Product Carousel” or find under Widgets section
4. Customize the block using the settings panel:
   • Total Products (1-20)
   • Products Per Row (1-6)
   • Slides to Skip (1-5)
   • Autoplay: Enable/disable automatic rotation of products
   • Autoplay Speed: Set the rotation interval in milliseconds
   • Background Color Picker
   • Toggle Add to Cart buttons
   • Toggle Star Ratings

Roadmap

• Add autoplay functionality
• Include transition speed control
• Add custom CSS field for advanced styling
• Support for product categories filtering

Support

For support questions, please contact:
[email protected]

Contributing

We welcome contributions on GitHub:
https://github.com/apanika/featured-product-carousel

License

GPLv2 or later

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/apanika-featured-product-carousel directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Ensure WooCommerce is installed and activated
4. Mark some products as “Featured” in WooCommerce

1.0

• Initial release with all core features
• Compatible with WordPress 5.8+ and WooCommerce 5.0+