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BTW Carousel for WooCommerce

A lightweight WooCommerce product carousel with a big photo stage and thumbnail strip. No jQuery. Works inside any page builder.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.2.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.8 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update30 Oct 20263d ago
Active installationsNewAdoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records BTW Carousel for WooCommerce version 1.2.2 as active, updated 3d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

BTW Carousel for WooCommerce is a lightweight, purpose-built product carousel for any WooCommerce store. Point it at a product category or tag and it builds a large hero stage image with a scrollable thumbnail strip underneath — no manual curation required, and no jQuery or heavy slider library weighing down your site.

Most carousel plugins force one layout to awkwardly stretch across desktop and mobile. BTW Carousel builds them separately from the ground up, so each device gets a layout actually tuned for it — swipe gestures and touch-pause on mobile, hover-pause and arrow navigation on desktop.

0 different

Earlier carousel plugins on the market either require jQuery, force a single one-size-fits-all layout, or lock basic features behind a paid tier. BTW Carousel for WooCommerce ships with none of those trade-offs: plain JavaScript only, genuinely separate desktop/mobile rendering, and every feature below fully usable for free.

Key features

  • Query mode: pulls products automatically from a chosen category or tag, sorted by date, price, or popularity — no manual picking of products required
  • Separate, purpose-built desktop and mobile layouts, each tuned for its device rather than one layout squeezed to fit both
  • No jQuery and no heavy slider library dependency — small footprint, built with plain JavaScript
  • Autoplay with hover-pause (desktop) and touch-pause (mobile), plus a dwell period after a manual selection before autoplay resumes
  • Swipe gesture support on the mobile stage image, in addition to the scrollable thumbnail strip
  • Configurable display: show or hide the product name and price; an optional short message shown beside the price; an optional caption shown above the thumbnail strip
  • Multiple independent carousels per site, each with its own shortcode: [btw_carousel group="Your Carousel Name"]
  • Responsive breakpoints for laptop, tablet, and mobile widths
  • Optional manually-entered products — add your own product tiles alongside or instead of a queried product list, each with its own name, link, and price text

Requirements

BTW Carousel for WooCommerce requires WooCommerce to be installed and active.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • product carousel
  • gallery
  • slider
  • woocommerce
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.8 · PHP 7.4
Update activity30 Oct 20263d ago

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Recent tracked changes

Version1.1.01.2.2
WordPress compatibility7.0.47.1.4
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