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Carousel Slider Block for Gutenberg
A responsive modern carousel slider for the Gutenberg block editor that lets you add any blocks to your slides. Easily create sliders for hero section …
- Active installs
- 50,000+
- #774 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 662.6K
- 662,572
- Downloads, 30 days
- 34.1K
- 5.3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 59 reviews
- Last updated
- 19 days ago
- Oct 12, 2026
- Version
- 2.1.6
- 35 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 12, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.1 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.0 or newer |
| First published | February 3, 2019 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 2 threads resolved (50%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 59 reviews
| 5 stars | 52 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 5 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 0 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
A responsive modern carousel slider for the Gutenberg block editor that lets you add any blocks to your slides. Easily create sliders for hero sections, testimonials, products, and anything else using Gutenberg blocks.
🚀 Carousel Slider Version 2 is built on the modern Swiper.js library for improved performance and better mobile compatibility.
Plugin site: carouselblock.com
Features
- Add unlimited slides
- Add any blocks to the slides
- Preview the carousel in the editor
- Responsive and touch enabled
- Developer friendly: supports CSS variables & theme.json
Settings
- Slides per view
- Slides to scroll at a time
- Slide speed
- Slide padding
- Prev/next arrows
- Dots navigation
- Infinite loop sliding
- Autoplay
- Pause on hover
- Disable on interaction
- Responsive settings: slides to show and scroll at given screen size
- RTL
Advanced Settings
For dynamic layouts where the slider or its surrounding layout changes after load, such as tabs, accordions, or lazy-loaded content.
- ResizeObserver
- Observer
- Observe parent elements
- Observe slide children
Plugin Settings
Plugin settings are available from Settings > Carousel Slider in the WordPress admin.
Available options include showing legacy carousel blocks, hiding the legacy warning notice, and loading the full Swiper bundle instead of the default custom Swiper build.
Included Patterns
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
What is Gutenberg?
Gutenberg is the name of the new block based editor introduced in WordPress 5. Gutenberg makes it easy to create content within the editor using blocks.
How do I add a carousel to WordPress?
Select the Carousel Slider block from the Design category.
How do I add a slide to WordPress?
Select the Carousel Slider block. Click the plus button to add slides to the carousel.
How do I add an image carousel in Gutenberg?
Add the Carousel Slider block from the block inserter and upload images or create slides inside the block. Each slide can contain images, text, or other blocks.
Can I add multiple carousels on the same page?
Yes. You can add multiple Carousel Slider blocks to a page or post and each carousel will work independently.
Can I add images and text inside carousel slides?
Yes. Each slide can contain images, text, buttons, or other blocks depending on how you want to design your carousel.
Latest changelog entry
- Security: backported the Swiper fix for CVE-2026-27212, including the subsequent array-filter bypass fix, to both the custom build and full bundle. Retains Swiper 11 behavior and styling.
Screenshots
Add any blocks to the carousel slides 
Hero sliders 
Testimonials and logo carousel 
Carousel settings
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.