The Responsive Posts Carousel plugin for WordPress offers an array of features to elegantly display various content types in a touch-enabled carousel/slider. Here are the key functionalities it provides:
- Diverse Templates:
- Offers over 50 templates to choose from for displaying Posts, Gallery Images, WooCommerce Products, and other custom post types.
- Easy Post Selection:
- Allows straightforward post selection based on post IDs, taxonomies, terms, or other criteria such as date, author, status, or custom meta.
- Responsive Design:
- Ensures full responsiveness, automatically adjusting to the container’s size for optimal display on different devices.
- Social Sharing Integration:
- Integrates with 15+ Social Networks, enabling the display of social sharing buttons on templates.
- AJAX Popup:
- Utilizes AJAX-based popup (lightbox) functionality, enabling quick post preview without navigating to the post details page.
- Custom Meta Display:
- Supports the display of custom meta for titles and descriptions alongside the posts.
- RTL Mode:
- Provides Right-to-Left mode, catering to languages and designs that require RTL support.
- WooCommerce Compatibility:
- Works seamlessly with WooCommerce and allows displaying formatted product prices by providing the appropriate meta key.
- Responsive Web Design (RWD) Settings:
- Offers different layout settings for Mobile, Tablet, and Desktop views, ensuring optimal presentation across devices.
- Vertical Slide Mode:
- Includes a vertical slide mode option, suitable for displaying content in sidebars or other vertical spaces.
- Custom Easing & Animations:
- Provides 24 animations for slide transitions, along with custom easing options for smooth visual effects.
- Image Handling:
- Allows loading any size of Featured Image registered by the theme, supports placeholder images for posts without featured images, and provides lazy loading for larger images to improve page speed.
- Infinite Looping & Equal Height Mode:
- Offers infinite looping, center mode, and equal height mode to maintain consistency in the display of templates.
- Customization Support:
- Facilitates customization by supporting Child Theme implementation to override and modify templates as needed.
- Support for Custom Post Types & ACF:
- Supports all custom post types (CPTs) including testimonials, portfolios, etc., and integrates with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for displaying custom meta values in templates.
- Custom Ordering & Accessibility:
- Allows sorting carousel items by date, IDs, titles, or any custom meta order, and provides accessibility features such as swipe-to-slide and mouse dragging support.
- Navigation & Auto Play:
- Offers navigation through arrows and bottom navigation dots, diverse arrow styles, and auto play functionality with customizable slide duration and speed.