Carousel Slideshow for Wordpress

The carousel slide show for WordPress is an excellent free module with many customizable options. It works with keyboard shortcuts too. Left and right arrows to navigate between images and space bar to toggle between auto slideshow. The WordPress slideshow shows the images with beautiful reflection. The image reflections can be set to off. We can also set the image shadows instead of reflections through the WP carousel slider admin options. In this free carousel slide show for WordPress, it is possible to customize the auto slider time, description font size and color. The image description can also set on top or bottom. This is the best WordPress carousel slidesow with cool image effects. This WP carousel slider requires minimum of four images.

  • Customizable gallery width and gallery height
  • Customizable slidehsow description
  • Customizable auto play time
  • Transition Time
  • Customizable slide interval
  • Customizable Image scalling
  1. Download the Plugins
  2. Login to your wordpress/wp-admin
  3. Go to Plugins > Click on Add new>Upload
  4. Click on Browse and locate "wp-carouselslideshow.zip" plugin click on Upload file and click on Install
  5. Click on plugin "Activate" to enable the plugin.
  6. Click on "Carousel Slideshow settings" on the leftside, and edit settings and click on "make config.xml" button.
  7. Please make "wp-content/plugins/wp-carouselslideshow/images" directories writeable(755)
  8. go to Carousel Slideshow settings on leftside menu on admin side and configure if required to change the width, height,background colors etc...
  9. Still if you have problems in using this plugin please open a support ticket at http://support.xmlswf.com

How to use it as a widget

After installing "wp-carouselslideshow" plugin in your theme just follow below instructions.
  1. Go to Appearance > Widgets, we can simply drag & drop "Carousel Slideshow" widget where ever you want to display it.
  2. To configure your slideshow settings click on "Carousel Slideshow settings" on the leftside, and edit settings and click on "make config.xml" button.
  3. If you want display this widget on any certain pages of your site just you need to install "widget-context" (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget- context/) plugin .

How to use plug-in in pages/posts

Use the shortcode [carousel_slideshow] on any page/post editors from admin To display this slideshow on your posts/pages

How to use plug-in in the template code.

If you want to use it in the theme / template

Open your theme php file and add the line <?php echo do_shortcode('[carousel_slideshow]');?> where ever you like to show the slide show.



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