LoopKit – Product Carousel, Slider & Card Builder for WooCommerce

🛒 Queries that match how you actually sell Six sources — recent, featured, on sale, best selling, top rated and manual selection — plus filters for category, tag, product type, stock and catalog visibility. Variable, grouped, external and out-of-stock products all render correctly, with prices through WooCommerce so multi-currency plugins keep working.

♿ Accessibility included, not upsold Labelled carousel region, slide positions announced as “3 of 12”, off-screen slides made inert so focus never disappears, real buttons with aria-current , pagination dots as a single Tab stop with arrow-key navigation, a visible pause control whenever autoplay runs, and full prefers-reduced-motion support. Escape leaves the carousel — no keyboard traps.

⚡ Light enough to forget about About 4.4 KB of gzipped CSS and JavaScript on pages that use it, and nothing at all on pages that don’t. The carousel engine is fetched only when a carousel approaches the viewport. No jQuery.

🎬 Motion with taste Six hover effects (zoom, lift, tilt, overlay fade, slide-up, border draw), six easing curves plus your own cubic-bezier, a staggered entrance as the carousel scrolls into view, and drag with adjustable edge resistance. Transform and opacity only, so it stays smooth on a mid-range phone.

🌍 Ready for real-world sites Right-to-left layouts, translation-ready strings, WPML and Polylang support, HPOS declared, and verified every release on Storefront, Astra, Hello Elementor, GeneratePress and Kadence.

🏆 Why LoopKit instead of the others

• What you see is what ships. The editor canvas renders the exact same card as the front end. Not a mockup of it.
• Accessibility is free here. Other carousel plugins put WCAG features behind a Pro licence. That seemed like a strange thing to charge for.
• No advertising noise. No settings page to hunt through, no recommended-plugin panels, no review nags, no activation redirect, no dashboard banners. One welcome notice on the Plugins screen that disappears the moment you dismiss it. That is the whole footprint.
• Zero tracking. No telemetry, no phone-home, no external requests of any kind.
• Your design, not ours. Presets set what a card contains; your Style tab decides how it looks.
• Built for client work. Carousel settings live on the widget, so they travel with the page — copy a section to another site and the carousel comes with it.

👤 Who it’s for

Freelancers and agencies building WooCommerce stores in Elementor who are judged on PageSpeed scores, accessibility audits, and how rarely the client calls back. And anyone who just wants a carousel that behaves.

🚀 Getting started takes a minute

1. 01Install WooCommerce and Elementor (the free one is enough).
2. 02Edit any page with Elementor and search the widgets for Product Carousel .
3. 03Drag it in. It renders immediately with your recent products — there is nothing to configure before you see something real.

📋 Requirements

WordPress 6.0+ · WooCommerce 7.0+ · Elementor (free) 3.15+ · PHP 7.4+

📚 Documentation and support

Every control, filter and accessibility behaviour is documented, with examples:

• Documentation
• Support

🔎 Source code and third-party libraries

The JavaScript and CSS in assets/ are compiled. Their human-readable source ships with the plugin in src/ , and is built with @wordpress/scripts (webpack).

LoopKit bundles one third-party library:

• Swiper 11.2.10, Copyright 2014-2025 Vladimir Kharlampidi, released under the MIT License. Its source is at https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper, and its licence text ships with the plugin in assets/swiper-license.txt .