This block works similarly to Ben’s Slider for Gutenberg but has more settings/options as it uses columns and horizontal scroll, making it a lot more detailed, flexible and intuitive to use:
This is what it looks like in the editor:
Here is a full width carousel with cover blocks, the archetypical “homepage carousel”
I also noticed the block throws a generic error when trying to add image or gallery blocks:
I had to disable it due to the aforementioned issue of breaking image blocks (not just within it, but everywhere) but I like the approach and the simple, yet flexible and intuitieve design. I will keep an eye for future versions of this block.
Update: The block is working again:
I revisited this post and it seems to be working now, here is what it looks like with some images
The plugins allows you to add any number of blocks inside each “slide” which makes extremely flexible
The plugins allows you to add any number of blocks inside each “slide” which makes extremely flexible
And here with some text and images:
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[…] is an interesting and more advanced alternative to the Carousel Slider Block I already reviewed here. If you want a simpler and more generic Carousel container I would go with the plugin I mentioned […]