Not quite as described

  • This plugin is a huge disappointment, but I love its potential. Three stars for an agnostic experience. Given the ratings from others and the fact that this plugin has been around for years, I wonder if what I’m seeing is a recent development.

    (If I’m missing something obvious, I will happily update this review.)

    Issues I have (that I’m assuming are features, not bugs)

    • The description says “50+ templates” but there are no templates that I can see. No button to download them.
    • Their demo site for the free version also claims “50+ Carousel Styles,” but in practice, what those styles are is a mystery. There are text-based settings, but no clear sense of how they work together.
    • There’s no preview. All the settings you have to make blindly.
    • You have to know which WP code to enter in each field. Not even a dropdown. Instead, you get help text like “Provide post meta key to display as heading. Eg: post_title, post_date, content, post_author, excerpt, none”
    • You can control how many posts to show in the first group and how many to slide at a time, but you can’t limit how many posts to display. For example, you can’t show just the 3 most recent. As another reviewer noted, you also can’t change the ordering. It’s all reverse chron.

    Now, for a free plugin, how can I complain? I’m posting this for site owners partially, but also for feedback to the developers.

    If the plugin descriptions made clear that this provides an interface for code construction with no preview, I’d be fine with that. I’m sure plenty of webdevs find this very handy. However, as someone who develops but wants to spend less time coding because I’m focusing on other things, I would have not downloaded this plugin.

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  • Plugin Author rameez_iqbal

    (@rameez_iqbal)

    Hi,
    First of all, thanks for letting us know about all these issues and missing clarifications. We were busy in our other projects and just opened its development again and started working on it. Many new features are coming with better documentation. It will be available hopefully by the end of this month.

    Now, lets discuss other things

    Yes, there are 50+ templates, but you’re right. They’re just styles, lets consider them display styles for title and content of post.

    Preview option is not available, but we will add all available styles in the demo to live see all of them and setup yourself accordingly.

    Well, dropdown is not available for field names as there can be a number of custom fields relative to the post types. ACF fields can also be used, we will also consider its better explanation.

    You can control how many posts to display by providing count attribute in the shortcode. You can also control order of posts by providing order and orderby attributes in the shortcode. Following example will display 3 recent posts.

    [wcp-carousel id="XX" count="3" order="DESC" orderby="date"]

    Let me know if you need further assistance.

    Regards

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