Carousel, Slider, and Photo Gallery with Lightbox plugin. Create Image Carousel, Video Slider, Post Carousel, Post Grid, Product Carousel, and more.
As of April 2026, Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel is a WordPress slider plugin with 70K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 426 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 8% this week. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
WP Carousel is a responsive plugin for creating Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery, and Video Slider in WordPress. It supports images, posts, WooCommerce products, and YouTube videos. Images can be selected directly from the WordPress media library and arranged with drag-and-drop. The plugin is lightweight, responsive, and works across all major devices and browsers.
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Image Carousel & Slider: Create Carousels and Sliders by uploading images from the WordPress media library.
Photo Gallery: Build image galleries with lightbox support and customizable layouts.
Post Carousel: Display recent posts in a carousel with title, image, excerpt, date, and author.
Post Grid: Show posts in a grid format with title, im…
Good plugin and service.
A plugin that your can actually startup your website with and be able to grow and earn money in order to buy their upgrades. They do NOT force you to buy by putting things that annoy you/customers. You can grow, earn, and spend with them if you wish. What a concept !!! Great plugin. I hope I make enough money to not worry about upgrading in the future. Great plugin.
I had a difficulty finding a decent carousel with no picture limit and a specific carousel effect.
I was indeed restricted with limits due to using the free version however the free one did more than I needed. It was the closest thing in my mind to what I wanted which I am satisfied with, I think it deserved a good rating for it.
Room for improvement would be to make the settings more understandable. it’s bit everywhere, sometimes making it difficult to read or follow. However there is many parts of the plugin where it’s managable on your own without using guides or videos.
Good job!
Response is great, advise is simple and great, screenshots to help is great,
What more need I say
It works flawless. Loved it.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0.0+ required |
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