Image Carousel
Image Carousel Wordpress plugin that lets you create a beautiful responsive image carousel
Solid choice
Image Carousel is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 2.6/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 68/100 on our health check.
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Mixed reviews — 2.6/5 from 14 ratings
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Image Carousel stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| block carousel | #25 |
| carousel | #29 |
| gutenberg carousel | #23 |
| Image carousel | #8 |
| slider | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 2.6 from 14 reviews
About Image Carousel
From the official readme · v1.0.0.43Description
Image Carousel sliders is now a must have feature in all business, portfolio or any web template. Along with fullscreen image sliders we can see that horizontal carousel image sliders works well with any website design and are implemented alongside. Sometimes slider needs to be one by third of a website page and that is where tiny carousel sliders come in with loads of transitions effects and even with responsive layout. eCommerce websites may be the best benefited from these sliders as they need to showcase many pics in an individual post or page. With this Image Carousel plugin you will easily create beautiful & fancy image carousel just in minutes.
We also provide gallery lightbox plugin that will display the large version of the image carousel in lightbox mode. Just download Gallery Lightbox Plugin, install, sit back and enjoy 🙂
Why should I use this Plugin?
- Compatible with WordPress Block (Gutenberg)
- Fully responsive – will adapt to any device
- Advanced touch / swipe support built-in
- Uses transitions for slide animation
- Fully themed, simple to implement
- Browser support: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iOS, Android, IE7+
- Tons of configuration options
- Add-ons support
Demo
Recommended Plugins
The following are other recommended plugins by the author:
- Best Gallery Plugin – Easy Media Gallery is a wordpress plugin designed to display various media support including grid gallery, galleries, photo album, multiple photo albums, portfolio, photo gallery or image gallery.
- Best Contact Form – The Best Contact Form Plugin to create awesome Contact Form in minutes.
- Best Image Slider Plugin – Easy Image Slider Widget – Displaying your image as slider in widget/sidebar area with very easy. Allows you to customize it to looking exactly what you want.
- Best Popup Plugin – The Best Notify and Subscription Form Plugin to display notify popup, announcement and subscribe form with very ease, fancy and elegant.
- Best Gallery Lightbox – Gallery Lightbox – Displays all gallery images into the lightbox slider in just a few seconds
Translation
- Deutsch / Deutschland
- Francais / France
- Italy
- Swedish
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Polish
- Greek
- Danish
NOTE
If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files for GhozyLab and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.
Technical Support
If any problem occurs or if you think, that you found a bug please contact us at info@ghozylab.com.
Image Carousel step by step guide
There are no complicated instructions for using Image Carousel plugin because this Carousel plugin designed to make all easy. Please watch the following video and we believe that you will easily to understand it just in minutes :
Installation
For automatic installation:
The simplest way to install is to click on ‘Plugins’ then ‘Add’ and type ‘Image Carousel’ in the search field.
For manual installation 1:
- Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
- Click the Add New button.
- Under Install Plugins, click the Upload link.
- Select the plugin zip file (image-carousel.x.x.x.zip) from your computer then click the Install Now button.
- You should see a message stating that the plugin was installed successfully.
- Click the Activate Plugin link.
For manual installation 2:
- You should have access to the server where WordPress is installed. If you don’t, see your system administrator.
- Copy the plugin zip file (image-carousel.zip) up to your server and unzip it somewhere on the file system.
- Copy the “image-carousel” folder into the /wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress installation.
- Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
- Look for “Image Carousel” and click Activate.
For Mac Users
- Go to your Downloads folder and locate the folder with the plugin.
- Right-click on the folder and select Compress.
- Now you have a newly created .zip file which can be installed as described here.*
- Click “Install Now” button.
- Click “Activate Plugin” button for activating the plugin.
Frequently asked questions
How can I get support?
We are not able to provide anything other than community based support for Image Carousel Plugin.
How can I say thanks?
Just recommend our plugin to your friends! or If you really love Image Carousel Plugin any donation would be appreciated! It helps to continue the development and support of the plugin. But seriously, I just want to drink coffee for free, so help a developer out. You can use this link Donate to Image Carousel.
Changelog
IMPORTANT! BUGS FIX, PLEASE UPDATE NOW!
1.0.0.43
- Update : WordPress 7.1 compatibility
- Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization
1.0.0.41
- Fixed : Cross Site Scripting (XSS) issue reported by Patchstack
- Fixed : Carousel Block
- Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization
1.0.0.39
- Fixed : WordPress 6.3 compatibility
- Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization
1.0.0.37
- Fixed : Carousel transition in latest jQuery library
- New : Option to disable the transition
- New : Option to set the transition speed
- New : Option to enable/disable the title slideUp/slideDown effect (stay fixed)
- New : Option to set carousel navigation to always visible (stay fixed)
1.0.0.35
- Fixed : WordPress 5.9 compatibility
- Fixed : The height of carousel parent container still active when AutoHeight option is OFF
- Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization
1.0.0.33
- Fixed : WordPress 5.8 compatibility
- Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization
Screenshots
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FAQ
Image Carousel: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 3, 2026
Is Image Carousel free?
Yes. Image Carousel is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Image Carousel safe to use in 2026?
Image Carousel is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 1K+ sites, is rated 2.6/5 and was last updated 1 month ago, and scores 68/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Image Carousel?
Image Carousel is active on 1K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 113,049 times since it launched in August 2015. It was downloaded 781 times in the last 30 days.
Does Image Carousel work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Image Carousel up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 3.3 or newer.
When was Image Carousel last updated?
The latest version, 1.0.0.43, was released on September 2, 2026 (1 month ago).
Who makes Image Carousel?
Image Carousel is developed and maintained by GhozyLab.
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