Overview
The Carousel extension allows you to create a customizable, carousel style slide show of your Facebook Posts.
Below are two examples of using the Carousel extension. Click here to see a live demo.
Shortcode used above:
[custom-facebook-feed carousel="true"]
Shortcode used above:
[custom-facebook-feed carousel="true" carouselcols=3 type="photos" photosource="photospage"]
Carousel Settings are located on the “Post Layout” tab on the plugin’s “Customize” page:
See the How to use tab above for directions on how to use the extension.
How to use
Installation
Extensions are installed just like any other WordPress plugin. You can follow the same process used when uploading and installing the Custom Facebook Feed Pro plugin.
Settings
Once activated, the extension will add a variety of settings to the “Post Layout” tab, which is on the plugin’s “Customize” page. These settings are shown below:
Shortcode
You can also set these settings directly in the shortcode. These are only required if you want to override the settings set on the plugin’s Settings page shown above. Here’s an example shortcode:
[custom-facebook-feed carousel="true" carouselcols=3]
Shortcode Options
Name | Attribute | Options | Description | Example |
Carousel Feed | carousel | true false |
Whether or not to apply the carousel to this feed | carousel=true |
Number of columns | carouselcols | 1-6 | The number of columns inside the carousel slide show | carouselcols=3 |
Number of columns for mobile | carouselmobilecols | 1-6 | The number of columns on mobile displays | carouselmobilecols=2 |
Height of Carousel | carouselheight | tallest clickexpand autoexpand |
How the height of the feed is set. Note: the “autoexpand” option only works when displaying 1 column in the carousel | carouselheight="clickexpand" |
Arrow Navigation | carouselarrows | none below onhover |
How arrows are displayed for navigating through the carousel | carouselarrows="onhover" |
Pagination | carouselpag | true false |
Icons to indicate the relative position of the current slide | carouselpag=true |
Autoplay | carouselautoplay | true false |
Cycle through posts automatically when the feed loads | carouselautoplay=true |
Autoplay Time Interval | carouseltime | any number | Number of milliseconds before a new post is shown | carouseltime=5000 |
Change Log
= 1.2 =
* Tweak: Added spacing if the posts have the box-shadow setting applied or are displayed in multiple columns
* Fix: Fixed an issue with the navigation arrows not working when positioned below the carousel
* Fix: Fixed an issue where the navigation wouldn’t be displayed below the feed if the pagination was hidden
= 1.1.2 =
* Fix: When displaying events in the carousel the “Number of Posts” setting wasn’t working correctly
* Fix: Fixed an issue where empty carousel items may be displayed in photo carousels when using the ‘filter’ setting
= 1.1.1 =
* Tweak: Updated the plugin updater script to reduce requests on the WordPress Plugins page
= 1.1 =
* Compatible with version 3.0 of the Custom Facebook Feed Pro plugin
= 1.0 =
* Launched the Carousel Feed extension