The WordPress carousel block you’ve been waiting for
Build stunning, buttery-smooth carousels and sliders with any blocks you like — hero sliders, testimonial carousels, logos, videos, even your latest posts — right inside the WordPress block editor. Included with Ollie Pro.
Premade Designs
Skip the blank page. Insert a professionally designed carousel from the Ollie pattern library — hero sliders, testimonial carousels, stats, and more — then swap in your content and hit publish.
Navigation Controls
Arrows, dots, bars, a draggable scroll bar, and a play/pause button. Pick your icons, dial in colors and sizes, and place your controls anywhere in the carousel — they all stay in sync.
Smart Sync
Edit one slide and every slide follows. Move a block, restyle a heading, or rearrange a layout — Smart Sync mirrors the design across all slides while each one keeps its own text, images, and links.
Responsive by Design
Set slides per view and scroll counts for desktop, tablet, and mobile independently — and preview every device right in the editor, so your carousel looks perfect before you publish.
Watch the Carousel Designer walkthrough video
The Ollie Carousel is built the way we build everything — with blocks at the center. Every slide is a blank canvas: drop in any block, any pattern, any layout you can imagine. Full creative control, right inside the editor, exactly where it belongs.
Build it with blocks
No shortcodes, no jQuery, no clunky plugin settings screens. The Ollie Carousel is pure blocks — designed, styled, and published entirely in the WordPress editor.
Featherweight and fast
Powered by a modern, dependency-free engine that loads when needed, keeping your pages blazing fast. Silky 60fps motion without the bloat.
Accessible by default
Keyboard navigation, screen reader announcements, pause controls, and reduced-motion support — carousels done responsibly, out of the box.
Browse premade carousel designs
Skip the blank page — start with a professionally designed carousel pattern. Hero sliders, testimonial carousels, logo marquees, team showcases, and more, ready to drop into any page and make your own with blocks.
Everything you need in a WordPress carousel plugin
Premade designs, motion that feels native, per-device responsive controls, and deep block editor integration. It’s the polish of a premium slider plugin with the freedom of blocks.
Premade carousel designs
Launch in minutes with professionally designed carousel patterns — hero sliders, testimonials, team showcases, stats, and video carousels — one click away in the Ollie pattern library.
Smart Sync slides
Design once, not ten times. Structural and style edits to any slide ripple across the whole carousel automatically, while every slide keeps its own content untouched.
Autoplay and continuous scroll
Step through slides on a timer, or glide endlessly like a marquee with continuous scroll — perfect for logo carousels. Loop, pause on hover, and adjustable speeds included.
Navigation your way
Arrows, dots, bars, a draggable scroll bar, or a play/pause button — mix and match navigation styles, customize their colors and icons, and place them anywhere in your carousel.
Dynamic post carousels
Feature your latest articles, products, or portfolio pieces automatically. Query by post type, taxonomy, author, or keyword — your carousel updates itself as you publish.
Responsive and refined
Set slides per view for desktop, tablet, and mobile independently, and preview each device in the editor. Fade transitions, edge fade-outs, RTL, and reduced-motion support are all built in.
Design faster with Smart Sync
Smart Sync keeps every slide’s design in lockstep. Change one — colors, type, layout — and the rest follow instantly, while each slide keeps its own content. This carousel is doing it right now.
Click a card to see how it feels to design with Smart Sync
Syncs design, not content
Layout moves, spacing, colors, and typography ripple across every slide — while text, images, and links stay unique to each one.
On by default, off anytime
New carousels start in sync so your slides stay consistent from the first edit. Flip the toggle whenever you want slides to diverge.
Works with any blocks
Slides are just blocks — covers, columns, buttons, whatever you build. Smart Sync keeps the structure aligned no matter how custom the design.
Carousel block questions, answered
Quick answers about building carousels and sliders in the WordPress block editor with Carousel Designer.
Not out of the box — WordPress core doesn’t ship a carousel or slider block in the block editor (Gutenberg). Carousel Designer adds a true carousel block, so you can build sliders natively with blocks instead of shortcodes or page builders.
Any block. Every slide is a blank canvas for covers, columns, images, videos, buttons, or entire patterns — so you can build hero sliders, testimonial carousels, logo marquees, image galleries, product showcases, and more.
No. Carousel Designer runs on a modern, dependency-free engine that only loads on pages that use it — no jQuery, no bloat — and delivers smooth 60fps motion that keeps your pages fast and your Core Web Vitals happy.
Yes. Keyboard navigation, screen reader announcements, play/pause controls, and reduced-motion support are built in by default, so your carousels work responsibly for every visitor.
Yes. Dynamic post carousels query your content by post type, taxonomy, author, or keyword and update themselves as you publish — perfect for featured articles, products, or portfolio pieces.
Carousel Designer is included with Ollie Pro, alongside the full Ollie pattern library and every other pro feature — one plugin, everything you need to build carousels in the block editor in minutes.
Loved by WordPress creators everywhere
Hear what real users say about building with Ollie and Ollie Pro — from first-time site builders to seasoned agencies.
Our team designed and rebuilt a client’s WooCommerce site using the Ollie theme. Year to date sales are up 170% versus last year.
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Ollie Pro is wild. I purchased it during the beta launch last week – it’s so great to see the flexibility but ease of use, feature set, and future plans. Awesome product. Go get it!
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I am using Ollie since the beginning on several WordPress websites that I own and I can say that the theme is blazing fast and it helps edit my website with FSE easily.
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via WordPress.org
Love this block theme! Highly recommended if you want to keep your entire workflow in the block editor.
Andy Feliciotti
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It’s really fast, and the pre-built patterns are beautiful. Kudos Mike!
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I’m a completely newbie web developer. But I have to create a site for my professor and Ollie is saving my life. Thank you very much!
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