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PAJ Featured Image Owl Carousel / Slider

Description

PAJ Featured Image Owl Carousel is an easy to use plugin to display featured images from posts, pages and custom post types as a carousel. It can also be used as a basic slider by setting the number of slides to 1.

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Plugin Features:

  • Display featured images from posts, pages or custom post types as an Owl carousel.
  • Option to display post heading, post excerpt and post author etc.
  • Option to choose excerpt length.
  • Font size and colour options
  • Each slide is a link back to the post or custom post type.
  • Select from different categories
  • Easy installable
  • Fully responsive OWL Carousel.
  • Mobile, Tablet touch supported.
  • Mouse drag option
  • Multiple Carousels on same page with different content.
  • Uses SrcSet along with column number to improve google page speed results.
  • Use with shortcode or as a Siteorigin widget.
  • 2 navigation styles
  • Image hover or boxed layout
  • Options to choose number of slides on desktop, tablet and mobile
  • Gap between slides option
  • option to make images equal heights
  • you can add a title for each carousel

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the β€˜Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
  3. Make sure you have some posts which have featured images then add the shortcode [paj-owl-slider] to any page or post.
    This will display the default carousel layout with four slides.

If you wish to use this plugin as a SiteOrigin widget then please note that SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle plugin must be installed and activated.
After you activate the required plugins, enable this carousel widget by going to Plugins > SiteOrigin Widgets in your WordPress admin and activate β€˜PAJ Carousel slider’.

Although not required, Page Builder by SiteOrigin is highly recommended.

FAQ

How can I get the carousel to display properly when I use the shortcode in the SiteOrigin editor widget?
The answer is to uncheck the option β€˜Automatically add paragraphs’ at the bottom left of the editor.

Reviews

πŸ‚ πŸ”Ÿ 11, 2021
An essential yet ultra-flexible and complete plugin for displaying carousel on your wesite. All configuration is made by shorcode, without the bloated user interfaces that other similar plugins have.
❄️1️⃣2️⃣ 16, 2017 1 reply
No complications and easy. It’s perfect if you do not need flashy effects like news or events. It works with custom types post.
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Contributors & Developers

“PAJ Featured Image Owl Carousel / Slider” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.2.1

*added an option for a carousel title.

1.2

*added option to shorten height of image when force image equal heights is selected. This is to prevent single desktop image becoming to tall.

1.1

*added options to change weight, case and colour of heading, summary and meta text.
*added options to change border size, colour and style.
*added option to change slide background colour.

1.0.2

*small update to carousel css and widget icon.

1.0.1

*minor naming update

1.0