A WordPress Widget displaying featured images of recent posts in a rotating carousel.
As of April 2026, Zhu Posts Icon Carousel for WordPress is a WordPress posts plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 894 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3.0+ and PHP 7.0.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
A WordPress Widget displaying featured images of recent posts in a rotating carousel.
The carousel area displays the featured images of recent posts and scrolls from left to right. An optional preview area sits below showing the posts featured image and its excerpt. Clicking on images or the preview will open a post in a new web browser tab.
The widget is theme agnostic and includes options to enable various display elements, carousel speed, pause time, and image sizes. You can also edit the widget’s CSS within the widget’s settings panel thus giving you control over the look and feel.
There is also a demo mode that uses random stock images and Lorem ipsum. Useful for when working on a new site where you may not have many posts. However, you must have at least one publish…
| WordPress | 5.3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | 7.0.0+ required |
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