Title: EffortLess Category Featured Carousel
Author: domclic
Published: <strong>12 Settembre 2025</strong>
Last modified: 12 Ottobre 2026

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# EffortLess Category Featured Carousel

 Di [domclic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/domclic/)

[Scarica](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/effortless-category-featured-carousel.1.0.14.zip)

 * [Dettagli](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-category-featured-carousel/#description)
 * [Recensioni](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-category-featured-carousel/#reviews)
 *  [Installazione](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-category-featured-carousel/#installation)
 * [Sviluppo](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-category-featured-carousel/#developers)

 [Supporto](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/effortless-category-featured-carousel/)

## Descrizione

**Effortless Category Featured Carousel** is a lightweight and elegant WordPress
plugin that creates beautiful, responsive carousels showcasing posts from any category.
Perfect for highlighting your best content, latest articles, or featured posts in
an engaging visual format.

### ✨ Key Features

 * **Category-based filtering** – Display posts from any category using slug or 
   ID
 * **Responsive design** – Automatically adapts to all screen sizes
 * **Customizable columns** – Set 1-12 columns per view
 * **Auto-play functionality** – Optional automatic slideshow with customizable 
   timing
 * **Featured image support** – Shows post thumbnails with elegant fallbacks
 * **Text overlays** – Post titles appear as stylish overlays on images
 * **Touch/swipe support** – Mobile-friendly navigation
 * **Keyboard accessible** – Full keyboard navigation support
 * **SEO friendly** – Proper heading structure and alt tags
 * **Lightweight** – Minimal impact on page load times

### 🎯 Perfect For

 * **Portfolio showcases** – Display your best work
 * **Blog highlights** – Feature recent or popular posts
 * **Product galleries** – Showcase products from specific categories
 * **News sections** – Highlight latest news articles
 * **Event listings** – Display upcoming events
 * **Team member profiles** – Show staff or team members

### 🚀 Easy to Use

Simply add the shortcode anywhere you want the carousel to appear:

    ```
    [elcfc_carousel category="your-category-slug" columns="4" autoplay="1"]
    ```

### 🔧 Shortcode Parameters

 * `category` – Category slug or ID (required)
 * `columns` – Number of columns to display (1-12, default: 4)
 * `autoplay` – Enable autoplay (1 for on, 0 for off, default: 1)

### 🎨 Smart Features

 * **Intelligent placeholders** – Shows “NO IMAGE” placeholder for posts without
   featured images
 * **Dynamic text sizing** – Automatically adjusts overlay text for long titles
 * **Smooth transitions** – CSS3 animations for professional appearance
 * **Navigation controls** – Previous/next arrows and dot indicators
 * **Mobile optimized** – Touch gestures and responsive breakpoints

### 💡 Developer Friendly

 * Clean, well-documented code following WordPress standards
 * Extensible with filters and actions
 * Custom image size registration
 * Conditional asset loading for optimal performance
 * Translation ready with proper text domain

### Support

For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit our [support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/effortless-category-featured-carousel/)
or [contact us directly](https://example.com/contact).

### Credits

 * Developed by domclic
 * Icons provided by [source if applicable]
 * Inspired by modern web design principles

### Privacy Policy

This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data from your website
visitors. It only displays content that is already publicly available on your WordPress
site.

## Installazione

### Automatic Installation

 1. Log into your WordPress admin panel
 2. Go to **Plugins > Add New**
 3. Search for “Effortless Category Featured Carousel”
 4. Click **Install Now** and then **Activate**

### Manual Installation

 1. Download the plugin ZIP file
 2. Upload the `effortless-category-featured-carousel` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`
 3. Activate the plugin through the **Plugins** menu in WordPress

### Usage

 1. Create or identify the category you want to showcase
 2. Add the shortcode to any post, page, or widget:
     [elcfc_carousel category=”your-
    category-slug”]
 3. Customize with additional parameters as needed

## FAQ

### How do I find my category slug?

 1. Go to **Posts > Categories** in your WordPress admin
 2. Click on the category name you want to use
 3. Look at the URL – the slug is after `/category/` in the address bar
 4. Alternatively, you can use the category ID number found in the same location

### Can I use multiple carousels on the same page?

Yes! You can add multiple shortcodes with different categories on the same page.
Each carousel will function independently.

### What image size works best?

The plugin automatically creates a custom image size (400x300px) optimized for carousel
display. For best results, upload images that are at least 400px wide.

### Can I customize the appearance?

Yes! The plugin uses CSS classes that you can target in your theme’s style.css:
*`.
elcfc-carousel` – Main carousel container * `.elcfc-carousel-item` – Individual 
carousel items * `.elcfc-title` – Post title overlay * `.elcfc-placeholder` – Placeholder
for missing images

### Does it work with custom post types?

Currently, the plugin only supports standard WordPress posts. Custom post type support
may be added in future versions.

### Is it mobile-friendly?

Absolutely! The carousel is fully responsive and includes touch/swipe gestures for
mobile devices.

### Can I disable autoplay?

Yes, set `autoplay="0"` in the shortcode: `[elcfc_carousel category="news" autoplay
="0"]`

### What happens if a category has no posts?

The plugin will display a user-friendly message: “No posts found in this category.”

### Does it affect my site’s speed?

The plugin is optimized for performance and only loads CSS/JS when the shortcode
is actually used on a page.

## Recensioni

Non ci sono recensioni per questo plugin.

## Contributi e sviluppo

“EffortLess Category Featured Carousel” è un software open source. Le persone che
hanno contribuito allo sviluppo di questo plugin sono indicate di seguito.

Collaboratori

 *   [ domclic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/domclic/)

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## Changelog

#### 1.0.14

 * Added bundled translation files: a template (.pot) and translations for Spanish,
   Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, Japanese, German, Italian and Brazilian 
   Portuguese.

#### 1.0.13

 * Change: the bundled donate-notice class is renamed from the shared `Effortless_Donate_Notice`
   to `ELCFC_Donate_Notice`, so the class name carries this plugin’s own prefix 
   and cannot collide with another EffortLess plugin loading its own copy.

#### 1.0.12

 * Change: tested against WordPress 7.1 and the “Tested up to” header updated to
   7.1. No functional changes.
 * Change: the donate notice’s outbound link no longer includes the site address
   as a query parameter. It still identifies the plugin and version so support requests
   can be matched to a release, but not which installation was viewing it.

#### 1.0.11

 * Fix: update plugin name casing to EffortLess; add plugin identifier to donate
   link.

#### 1.0.10

 * Refactor: donate notice file kept as includes/class-donate-notice.php (preserves
   SVN file history); class remains Effortless_Donate_Notice.

#### 1.0.9

 * Fix: donate notice now correctly displays on Network Admin pages — screen ID 
   normalization strips WordPress’s -network/-user suffix before matching.

#### 1.0.8

 * Refactor: donate notice class renamed Donate_Notice  Effortless_Donate_Notice(
   WP-standard prefix); file renamed to class-effortless-donate-notice.php. No phpcs:
   ignore needed anywhere.

#### 1.0.7

 * Fix: donate notice now uses current_screen hook for reliable screen detection
   on single-site and multisite Network Admin pages.

#### 1.0.6

 * Improvement: added dismissible donate notice on the plugin settings screen.
 * Improvement: added Donate link header field and includes/class-donate-notice.
   php.

#### 1.0.5

 * Fixed EscapeOutput sniff false-positive by switching printf() to echo concatenation.
 * Corrected “Tested up to” to 6.8 (valid WordPress release).

#### 1.0.4

 * Fixed all WordPress coding standards violations (tabs, array syntax, doc blocks).
 * Removed debug error_log() calls.
 * Replaced mkdir() with wp_mkdir_p().
 * Added text domain and i18n wrappers.

= 1.0.3
 * Fix minor issue

= 1.0.2
 * WordPress 7.0 update

= 1.0.1
 * Minor bug fixes and code improvements * Escaped all output to ensure 
full XSS protection * Improved placeholder handling for posts without featured images*
Optimized CSS and JS enqueueing * Added more detailed developer documentation

= 1.0.0
 * Initial release * Category-based post filtering * Responsive carousel
with touch support * Autoplay functionality * Featured image display with placeholders*
Text overlay system * Navigation controls (arrows and dots) * Customizable columns*
Performance optimizations * WordPress coding standards compliance * Translation 
ready * Accessibility improvements

## Meta

 *  Versione **1.0.14**
 *  Ultimo aggiornamento **5 giorni fa**
 *  Installazioni attive **Meno di 10**
 *  Versione WordPress ** 6.2 o superiore **
 *  Testato fino alla versione **7.1.3**
 *  Versione PHP ** 7.4 o superiore **
 *  Lingua
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-category-featured-carousel/)
 * Tag
 * [carousel](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/carousel/)[category](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)
   [featured image](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-image/)[responsive](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/responsive/)
   [slider](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/slider/)
 *  [Visualizzazione avanzata](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-category-featured-carousel/advanced/)

## Valutazioni

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## Collaboratori

 *   [ domclic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/domclic/)

## Supporto

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 [Chiedi nel forum di supporto](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/effortless-category-featured-carousel/)

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