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How to use the Carousel extension to display your Facebook feed as a carousel

Version 4.0 and above

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.

Activation:

Once the plugin has been installed you’ll need to activate it. To do so, navigate to the Facebook feed > Extensions.

Settings

Once activated, the extension will add a variety of settings to the “Feed Layout” tab, which is on the plugin’s “Customize” page. These settings are shown below:

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:

facebook-feed-carousel-settings

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

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