Most carousel plugins slide one kind of thing: images, or posts, or testimonials. The moment you want to slide a pricing table or a set of cards you built yourself, they stop being useful.
Carousel Anything slides whatever you put in it. Each slide holds ordinary blocks, so the carousel does not care what the content is.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Carousel Anything block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Carousel Anything, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- Content ready to slide — a template per slide, or blocks built in place.
- Test with several slides. A carousel with one slide has nothing to move to, so most settings will look broken when they are simply idle.
Steps
- Add the Carousel Anything block to your page.
- Add a slide for each item you want in the carousel.
- Put your content into each slide.
- Set how many slides show at once, and how many move per step.
- Choose whether arrows and dots appear.
- Set autoplay to suit — it is on by default.
- Style the arrows and dots, then publish.
How It Behaves
The block renders a Splide carousel and hands it every setting at once.
- Every setting ends up in one place. The block writes its whole configuration into a
data-splideattribute on the carousel, which is what the slider script reads. If a setting is not doing what you expect, that attribute is where to look. Measured on a published page, six slides rendered sixsplide__slideelements with the whole configuration in that one attribute. - Autoplay is on by default. Measured: a carousel with nothing configured rendered
autoplay: truewith a 1500 ms interval. If you want a static carousel you have to switch it off deliberately — see the autoplay guide. - Sensible defaults for everything else, measured: one slide at a time (
perPage: 1), moving one at a time (perMove: 1), left to right, dots shown, arrows hidden. - Columns are per device. Measured: three columns on desktop with two on tablet and one on phone produced exactly that, as breakpoint entries at 1024 and 767.
- It can drive or be driven by other blocks through a shared ID — see the Carousel Remote and Process Steps guides.
- Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated: the carousel renders nothing at all — no wrapper, no configuration and no slides. This is a Pro-only block.
Limitations
- Pro only — measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated, nothing renders at all, not even a fallback list.
- Everything in every slide loads with the page. Hidden slides are hidden, not absent, so ten image-heavy slides cost ten slides’ worth of loading.
- Carousels hide content. Most visitors see the first slide and no more, so do not put anything essential on slide four.
- Autoplay fights the reader. A slide that moves while someone is reading it is a common complaint; if you keep autoplay on, set pause on hover.
- One carousel per block. Two independent carousels means two blocks, and if you connect them, two different IDs.
Troubleshooting
Nothing renders
Check Nexter Blocks Pro is active. Measured with Pro off, the block produces no output whatsoever.
It moves on its own and I did not ask for that
Autoplay is on by default. Switch it off — see the autoplay guide.
Only one slide shows
That is the default. Raise the number of columns — see the multiple columns guide.
There are no arrows
Arrows are off by default; dots are on. See the arrows and dots guide.
It looks wrong on mobile
Set the column count per device. Measured, the desktop value is inherited unless you override it at the smaller breakpoints.
