This plugin allows you to create a simple responsive image carousel that displays the featured image, along with the title and excerpt from each post.
As of April 2026, Genesis Bootstrap Carousel is a WordPress slider plugin with 70 active installations and a 3.4/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
Note: This plugin only supports Genesis child themes. If you don’t know what that is, don’t download this plugin.
Genesis Bootstrap Carousel (GBC) allows you to create a simple responsive image carousel that displays the featured image, along with the title and excerpt from each post.
GBC is based off of the Genesis Responsive Slider and uses a lot of the same code. The main difference is that the Genesis Bootstrap Carousel uses the Carousel
jquery plugin created by the open source Twitter Bootstrap Project. The carousel.js in this plugin is roughly 1/4 the size of the jquery flexslider.js used by
the Genesis Responsive Slider. The CSS in this plugin is about half the size of the Genesis Responsive Slider plugin. Genesis Bootstrap Carousel also includes
options to easily disab…
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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