How to add a Carousel Slider for WordPress

Carousel Slider is a plugin that allows you to create a highly customizable, stylish responsive carousel slider in WordPress. The main features of Carousel Slider include the following:

• Multiple types carousel, images from media gallery, images from URL, videos from youtube and Vimeo, posts, and WooCommerce products carousel slider
• Hero slider with background image, title, description, call to action buttons and more.
• Posts carousel, support Specific posts, Post Categories, Post Tags, Posts per page, Date range query and ordering.
• Video carousel, support custom height and width (Currently only support video from Youtube and Vimeo)
• Fully responsive.

Installing and configuring  the Carousel Slider plugin

To install Carousel Slider plugin, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your WordPress site with an administrator account.
2. On the Dashboard in the left sidebar, click Plugins, and then click Add New:

   

3. Search for “Carousel Slider”, click Install, and then click Activate the plugin:
   

   

4. The Carousel Slider plugin is listed on the left sidebar.

Creating a slider using Carousel Slider plugin on WordPress

1. On the Dashboard in the left sidebar, click on Carousel Slider, and then click  Add New to create a new slide:

   

2. Give the slide a name:
   

   

3. Scroll down to the Carousel Section to configure the additional parameters or settings for the Carousel Slider:
   

   

4.  Select the Slide Type from the drop down list:
   

   

5. Click on Add Gallery to add images to the carousel images:
   

   

   

6.  Set additional image carousel settings:
   

   • Image Carousel Settings:

   

   • Autoplay Settings:

   

   • Navigation settings:

   

7. To use these sliders on posts or pages, copy and paste the shortcode:
   

   

   

8. The image carousel slide displayed on the slide: