As of April 2026, Effortless Category Featured Carousel is a WordPress slider plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 237 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
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0active installs
237total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
Effortless Category Featured Carousel 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.
✨ Key Features
- Category-based filtering – Display posts from any category using slug or ID
- Responsive design – Automatically adapts to all screen sizes
- Customizable columns – Set 1-12 columns per view
- Auto-play functionality – Optional automatic slideshow with customizable timing
- Featured image support – Shows post thumbnails with elegant fallbacks
- Text overlays – Post titles appear as stylish overlays on images
- Touch/swipe support – Mobile-friendly navigation
- Keyboard accessib…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Changelog
= 1.0.1
* Minor bug fixes and code improvements
* Escaped all output to ensure full XSS protection
* Improved placeholder handling for posts without featured images
* Optimized CSS and JS enqueueing
* Added more detailed developer documentation
= 1.0.0
* Initial release
* Category-based post filtering
* Responsive carousel with touch support
* Autoplay functionality
* Featured image display with placeholders
* Text overl…
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