Six feature boxes stacked down a page push everything else below the fold.
A carousel keeps the same six in one row’s worth of space and lets the reader move through them.
For every Infobox setting in one place, see the Infobox feature guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Free — the Infobox block works in Nexter Blocks (free) and with Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Infobox, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
Steps
- Add the Infobox block and set the Layout to Carousel.
- Open the carousel’s own item list and fill in each box — this is a separate list from the single Title and Description, see the note below.
- Set how many boxes show at once for each screen size.
- Switch on arrows or dots and set autoplay if you want it.
The carousel layout uses a different set of content fields. Measured on a published page: a block with its Title set to “Fast delivery” rendered “Amazing Feature 1” once switched to carousel, because the carousel reads its own repeater rather than the single Title and Description used by the listing layout. Fill in the carousel’s own items after switching.
How It Behaves
- The block renders as a slider — measured on a published page, the wrapper switched to its carousel markup and rendered one slide per item.
- The carousel has its own item list. Measured: a block whose Title said “Fast delivery” displayed “Amazing Feature 1” after switching to carousel, because the carousel reads the repeater rather than the single fields.
- Each item has its own icon, title, description and link, exactly like a single infobox.
- The carousel can be driven from elsewhere on the page — see connecting it to a Carousel Remote.
Limitations
- The carousel layout uses a different set of content fields. Measured on a published page: a block with its Title set to “Fast delivery” rendered “Amazing Feature 1” once switched to carousel, because the carousel reads its own repeater rather than the single Title and Description used by the listing layout. Fill in the carousel’s own items after switching.
- Boxes beyond the first few are off screen until someone interacts, so a carousel is wrong if every feature needs to be seen at once.
- The number of visible boxes is set per screen size; there is no automatic fitting.
- Autoplay moves the row unprompted, which can fight with a reader who is part-way through reading.
Troubleshooting
The carousel shows text I did not write
The carousel layout uses a different set of content fields. Measured on a published page: a block with its Title set to “Fast delivery” rendered “Amazing Feature 1” once switched to carousel, because the carousel reads its own repeater rather than the single Title and Description used by the listing layout. Fill in the carousel’s own items after switching.
Only one box is showing
Check the carousel’s item list has more than one entry, and that the visible-count setting for the screen size you are previewing is above one.
There are no arrows or dots
Both are switched on separately in the carousel options.
I want the boxes stacked instead
Switch the Layout back to the default listing and place one block per feature. See the feature guide.
