Responsive Posts Carousel is a lightweight yet powerful WordPress plugin that displays your Posts, Pages, WooCommerce Products, gallery images, and any custom post type in a smooth, touch friendly carousel. Choose from 51+ ready to use templates, shape every detail with the built in Live Template Editor, and publish a polished slider in just a few minutes. No coding required.

Whether you want a simple post slider, a product showcase, a vertical news ticker, or a multi row grid carousel, this plugin gives you the flexibility to build exactly what you have in mind and keep it fast on every device.

✨ What’s New

• Video Carousel: embed YouTube, Vimeo, or self hosted MP4, WebM and Ogg videos right inside your slides, with a lightweight click to play poster that loads the player only when needed.
• WooCommerce Enhancements: sale badges with discount percentage, star ratings with review counts, color coded stock status, and one click AJAX add to cart.
• Gutenberg Block: add carousels in the block editor with a live preview and inline sorting controls. No shortcodes to remember.
• 51+ Templates: a growing library of professionally designed layouts, from clean minimal cards to animated hover effects.

51+ Ready to Use Templates

Start from a professionally designed template and make it yours. The visual Template Customizer lets you control colors, fonts, borders, shadows, spacing, button labels, and overlays for each template, so two carousels built from the same base can look completely different. Every template also supports the new Video Carousel and WooCommerce features.

Fully Responsive

• Set a separate number of columns for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile.
• Control how many slides scroll per swipe or click.
• Touch and swipe friendly on phones and tablets out of the box.

Flexible Content Selection

Pull in exactly the content you want. Display posts by post type or by taxonomy, filter by specific terms, or handpick individual posts.

• Works with Posts, Pages, WooCommerce Products, Custom Post Types, and Media Attachments.
• Filter by any registered taxonomy, including categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
• Handpick or exclude specific posts by ID.
• Auto exclude the current post, skip a number of posts with an offset, and limit the total shown.

Content Display Options

• Choose your title source: post title, date, author, content, excerpt, any custom meta key, or none.
• Choose your description source the same way, with word length trimming and a custom ellipsis.
• Add a Read More button with custom text and your own CSS classes, or hide it completely.
• Render shortcodes and page builder content so slides show real content instead of raw shortcodes.
• Open links in the same tab or a new tab.

⚙️ Powerful Slider Controls

• Autoplay with adjustable speed, pause on hover, and infinite looping.
• Center mode, vertical mode, and adaptive height for sidebars, widgets, and creative layouts.
• Grid mode with multiple rows for a packed showcase look.
• Control transition speed, starting slide, and spacing between slides.
• 26 CSS easing options for the exact motion feel you want.

Navigation and Layout

• 10 arrow types including Circle, Simple, Angle, Caret, Chevron, and more.
• Arrow styles, colors, sizes, and positions you can match to your theme.
• Dot indicators with custom color.
• Full width layout, custom carousel background, and your own Custom CSS box.
• Same height slides and equal height images for clean, symmetrical rows.

Video Carousel

• Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or direct video file URL on any post.
• Provider is detected automatically.
• A poster image with a play button keeps pages light, and the player loads only on click.
• Works with all 51 templates through the existing thumbnail system.

WooCommerce Ready

• Sale badges showing the exact discount percentage, for example -21%.
• Average star ratings with review counts.
• Color coded In Stock, Out of Stock, and On Backorder labels.
• AJAX add to cart with a spinner and an Added confirmation.
• Variable and grouped products are detected and linked to their product page.

Gutenberg Block

• Pick any saved carousel from a simple dropdown.
• See a real server side preview inside the editor.
• Override order by, order direction, and post count right from the block.

️ Images and Performance

• Choose any registered image size, including custom sizes, to keep pages fast.
• Lazy load images so they load only when slides come into view.
• Set a placeholder image for posts that have no featured image.

Developer Friendly

• Display any custom meta field in your slides, with full Advanced Custom Fields support.
• Override any template by copying it into your theme or child theme, just like core WordPress template files.
• Page builder content is rendered properly, not printed as shortcodes.
• AJAX powered popup lightbox lets visitors read a full post right above the slider without leaving the page.

Social Sharing

Built in sharing for 14 networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit, WhatsApp, Telegram, Tumblr, VK, Xing, Hacker News, Email, and a direct post link.

Set up your first carousel in minutes, then customize it as much as you like. Responsive Posts Carousel gives you a fast, flexible, and good looking slider for any WordPress or WooCommerce site.

Features

• 50+ Templates: Yes, there are 50+ unique and modern tempates available to choose from.
• Easy Selection: Simple post selection. You can choose by post IDs, taxonomies or terms.
• Responsive: Its fully responsive and scales with its container.
• Social Sharing: 15+ Social Networks to choose from, to display their buttons on templates.
• AJAX Popup: Post Popup is also available and popup template can be loaded from the theme for customizations.
• Custom Meta: Display custom meta for title and description.
• RTL Mode: Right to Left mode can also be turned on.
• WooCommerce: Supported with WooCommerce, provide meta key woo_price to display formatted price of product.
• RWD: Different layout settings for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop views.
• Vertical Mode: Vertical slide mode is also available to display in the sidebars.
• Custom Easing: 24 Animations available to choose for slide transition.
• Custom Image Sizes: You can load any size of Featured Image registered by your theme.
• Placeholder: Set a default image for those posts which don’t have any featured image.
• Grid Mode: You can also display multiple rows of posts in a single slider.
• Lazy Loading: Lazy loading for large images.
• Infinite: Infinite looping and center mode.
• Equal Height Mode: Fix images height without stretching them to make all templates same in size.
• Child Theme Support: Load templates from your theme if you want to make changes in them.
• CPT Support: All custom post types are supported including testimonials, portfolios etc.
• ACF Support: Supported with Advanced Custom Fields to display custom meta values in templates.
• Custom Ordering: Sort your carousel items by date, IDs, titles or any custom meta order.
• Accessibility: Swipe to slide and desktop mouse dragging support.
• Navigation: Arrows and bottom navigation indicator dots.
• Arrow Styles: 10 arrow styles and custom settings to customize them.
• Auto Play: Auto Play with custom slide duration and custom speed.

Changelog

15.5 – 26 June 2026

* Feature Added: Modern Gutenberg block to embed carousels with a live preview
* Feature Added: Block options to override sorting (Order By), order direction and number of posts
* Feature Added: Video Carousel Support (YouTube, Vimeo and self-hosted MP4/WebM/Ogg)
* Feature Added: Lightweight click-to-play (lazy loaded) video facade for better performance
* Feature Added: WooCommerce Sale Badge with discount percentage on product templates
* Feature Added: WooCommerce Star Ratings display on product carousel slides
* Feature Added: WooCommerce Stock Status indicator (In Stock / Out of Stock / On Backorder)
* Feature Added: WooCommerce AJAX Add to Cart button with loading and success states

15.3 – 18 December 2025

* Bug Fixed: XSS issues fixed

15.1 – 23 June 2025

* Bug Fixed: vulnerable to Local File Inclusion
* Bug Fixed: PHP Warning:  Array to string conversion

15.0 – 10 March 2025

* Feature Added: Inline Updates
* Feature Added: Support with WP 6.7+

14.1 – 24 March 2023

* Feature Added: Option added to set adaptiveheight
* Bug Fixed: Center mode mobile device issues

14.0 – 23 June 2021

* Feature Added: New UI
* Bug Fixed: Errors related to JS

13.7 – 3 April 2020

* Feature Added: Popup support - Option to open posts in a ajax based lightbox
* Feature Added: Elementor Builder support for the contents
* Bug Fixed: Color picker not appearing correctly for some themes
* POT updated

13.6 – 27 October 19

* Feature Added: Drag post titles to sort as per your need
* Bug Fixed: Number of posts to slide is not working as per settings

13.5 – 15 September 19

* Feature Added: Attachments support added
* Feature Added: 4 Template Styles added for WooCommerce Products 
* Feature Added: 1 New Arrow position added 
* Feature Added: Setting to change bottom navigation dots color 
* Feature Added: Center Mode large size of focused post
* Feature Added: CSS Optimized and unused code removed 
* Bug Fixed: Vertical Slider cut off
* Bug Fixed: Conflict with some theme's scripts/styles
* POT updated

13.4 – 25 May 19

Feature Added: Same Height option for all slides
Feature Added: Multisite Support
Bug Fixed - Headings Capitalization is fixed
Bug Fixed - Template 47 separator color not changing
rpc_query_args filter adds carousel ID as a filter argument

13.3 – 17 April 19

Feature Added: Smooth Scrolling (linear easing option)
Feature Added: A New Template (Style 47)
Feature Added: Custom Arrow Positions
Feature Added: RTL Mode
Feature Added: Full-Width Mode
Feature Added: Load custom.js script file from theme/child theme (pasting it inside rpc directory)
Feature Added: Adaptive Height
Feature Added: Append to Trimmed Text option (append custom text with the trimmed one)
Feature Added: Shortcodes/Page Builders support
Feature Added: Allow users to drag or swipe directly to a slide
Feature Added: Query params supported in the shortcode (read the docs for more details)
Bug Fixed: Arrows are not symmetrical
Bug Fixed: More than 1000 posts break the edit carousel screen is fixed
Bug Fixed: Initial slide causing unexpected behavior (empty slides etc)

13.2 – 8 March 19

Bug Fixed - Template not loading from Child Themes
Bug Fixed - Template 35 color and background conflict

13.1 – 5 March 19

Feature Added - Vertical Slider Mode
Feature Added - Pause on Hover option added
Feature Added - Infinite Looping
Feature Added - Center Mode
Feature Added - Custom Initial Slide
Feature Added - 24+ Easing Animation Options for Sliding
Feature Added - Lazy Loading of images for better performance

13.0 – 4 March 19

Initial Release