A carousel fits a lot of categories into a small amount of vertical space. That is the whole argument for it, and it is a real one on a busy homepage.
The trade is that only a few categories are visible at a time, and the defaults here need changing before it is comfortable to use.
For every Taxonomy Listing setting in one place, see the Taxonomy Listing guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Taxonomy Listing block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Taxonomy Listing, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- Terms that exist. The block lists your real taxonomy terms, so a site with one category shows one card.
Steps
- Add the Taxonomy Listing block and set the layout to carousel.
- Set how many cards show per view, turn autoplay off, enable arrows, then publish.
Two defaults are worth changing straight away: autoplay is on, and only one card shows per view.
How It Behaves
The slider configuration is written onto the block, so the defaults are measurable rather than a matter of opinion.
- Autoplay is on by default and does not pause on hover. Measured in the slider configuration:
autoplay: true,pauseOnHover: false. Turn it off unless you have a reason to keep it, because a moving carousel is hard to read and hard to click. - One card per view is the default. Measured
perPage: 1, so an unconfigured carousel shows a single category across the full width. Set the per-view count for each breakpoint. - Arrows are off and pagination dots are on by default. Measured
arrows: false,pagination: true. Most people want the reverse. - Cards render as real image tags, unlike metro, and each is still a link to its term archive.
- It is the same slider engine as Carousel Anything and the Post Listing carousel, so settings behave identically across all three.
- The category image comes from Nexter’s own term image field, set on the term itself when you edit it. It is not WordPress’s featured image and, on a product category, it is not WooCommerce’s category image either — those are stored separately and this block does not read them.
- The post count is shown by default. Measured on an untouched listing: each card rendered its real term count.
- Type a number into the item count; do not leave it blank. Measured on 5.0.6: a blank field renders one term rather than all of them, and so does
0. Reported to the developers. - Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated: the block renders nothing at all — not a wrapper, not a message, zero output. This is a Pro-only block.
Limitations
- Pro only — nothing renders with Pro deactivated.
- Autoplay that does not pause on hover is genuinely hard to use. A visitor reaching for a category can have it slide away mid-click. Turn autoplay off.
- Categories off-screen are effectively hidden. If the listing is your main navigation, a grid serves visitors better.
- Only the visible cards are obvious. Without arrows or dots there is nothing to tell a visitor there is more to the right.
- Autoplaying motion is an accessibility problem for people sensitive to it, and there is no user control to stop it.
- A carousel with three categories is not worth the script. Use a grid.
Troubleshooting
Only one category is visible at a time
That is the default of one card per view. Set the per-view count for each breakpoint.
It keeps sliding while I try to click
Autoplay is on by default and does not pause on hover. Switch it off.
There are no arrows
Arrows are off by default. Enable them, and consider turning the pagination dots off in exchange.
Only one card exists at all
Different problem: the item count is blank or zero. Enter a number.
