DevPress Factory for Elementor – Video Carousel Popup

Descripción

DevPress Factory Video Carousel Popup for Elementor adds a powerful, fully customizable video carousel widget to your Elementor page builder.

Each slide displays a rectangular thumbnail with rounded corners and a centered play button. Clicking a card opens a smooth animated popup with a full video player — no page reloads, no redirects.

Key Features

  • Swiper-powered carousel — smooth, touch-friendly, and responsive
  • Popup video player — elegant animated modal with keyboard and accessibility support
  • MP4 support — native playback in all modern browsers
  • HLS / M3U8 support — via HLS.js on Chrome/Firefox; native on Safari and iOS
  • Fully customizable — border radius, play button size and color, overlay, typography, aspect ratio, popup dimensions and more
  • Responsive breakpoints — set different slides-per-view for desktop, tablet, and mobile independently
  • Autoplay & loop — optional, with pause-on-hover
  • Navigation arrows and pagination — toggleable
  • Accessibility — keyboard navigation (Enter/Space/Esc), ARIA roles and labels
  • Lightweight — Swiper and HLS.js are loaded only on pages containing the widget
  • Compatible with all recent Elementor versions — from 2.x through the latest 3.x release

Supported Video Formats

Format
Support

MP4
Native — all modern browsers

M3U8 / HLS
HLS.js on Chrome/Firefox; native on Safari/iOS

WebM
Native — all modern browsers

How to Use

  1. Install and activate the plugin
  2. Open any page in Elementor Editor
  3. Search for "Video Carousel Popup" in the widget panel
  4. Drag it onto your page
  5. Add video items via the repeater: title, video URL, thumbnail image, and optional description
  6. Customize appearance from the Style tab
  7. Save and publish

Third-Party Libraries

This plugin loads the following open-source libraries via CDN (jsDelivr), only when the widget is present on a page:

  • Swiper (v11) — MIT License — https://swiperjs.com
  • HLS.js (latest) — Apache 2.0 License — https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js

No data is sent to external services. The CDN requests are standard asset deliveries with no tracking.

Privacy Policy

This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.

When the widget is present on a page, assets (Swiper.js and HLS.js) are loaded from the jsDelivr CDN (jsdelivr.net). Standard server-side access logs may be recorded by jsDelivr. Please refer to jsDelivr’s privacy policy at https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-com for details.

No other third-party services are used.

Instalación

From the WordPress Admin (recommended)

  1. Go to Plugins Add New Upload Plugin
  2. Upload the elementor-video-carousel.zip file
  3. Click Install Now, then Activate

Manual Installation via FTP

  1. Extract the plugin ZIP
  2. Upload the elementor-video-carousel folder to /wp-content/plugins/
  3. Activate the plugin from Plugins Installed Plugins

Requirements

  • WordPress 5.0 or higher
  • Elementor (free) 2.0.0 or higher
  • PHP 7.2 or higher

FAQ

Does this work with Elementor Free?

Yes. This plugin requires only the free version of Elementor. Elementor Pro is not needed.

Which Elementor versions are supported?

The plugin is compatible with Elementor from version 2.0.0 through the latest release (3.x). It uses a dual hook registration pattern to support both old and new Elementor APIs.

Can I use HLS / M3U8 streaming videos?

Yes. HLS streams (.m3u8) are supported via HLS.js on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Safari and iOS handle HLS natively without any library. The correct playback method is detected automatically.

Where is the widget in the Elementor panel?

Search for "Video Carousel Popup" in the widget search box, or look in the Video Carousel category or the General category.

Can I set different numbers of slides for mobile, tablet, and desktop?

Yes. The Content tab Carousel Settings section has independent slide-per-view controls for each breakpoint.

Can I change the thumbnail aspect ratio?

Yes. You can choose from 16:9, 4:3, 3:2, 21:9, and 1:1 presets from the Card Settings section.

Can I change the border radius of the thumbnails?

Yes. The Style Card Style section includes a full border-radius control (all four corners, in px or %).

The popup does not open — what should I check?

Make sure the Video URL field in the repeater item is filled in with a valid, publicly accessible URL. For HLS streams, also ensure the video server allows CORS requests from your domain.

Does the plugin slow down my site?

No. Swiper.js and HLS.js are loaded via CDN only on pages that contain the widget. If the widget is not present on a page, no extra scripts are loaded.

Is the popup accessible?

Yes. The popup supports keyboard navigation (Enter/Space to open, Escape to close), includes ARIA role="dialog" and aria-modal="true" attributes, and manages focus correctly.

Reseñas

No hay reseñas para este plugin.

Colaboradores y desarrolladores

"DevPress Factory for Elementor – Video Carousel Popup" es un software de código abierto. Las siguientes personas han colaborado con este plugin.

Colaboradores

Registro de cambios

1.2.8

  • Fix: Prevented frontend JavaScript errors when Elementor hooks are not available yet by waiting for the Elementor frontend init event and checking hooks.addAction before using it.
  • Fix: Restored embedded video carousel loading on pages where Elementor initializes asynchronously.
  • Improvement: Translated Elementor user-facing labels, descriptions, ARIA labels, and JavaScript accessibility strings to English for WordPress.org compliance.
  • Maintenance: Updated plugin version, stable tag, and documentation references to 1.2.8.

1.2.4

  • Fix: Text Domain updated to match plugin slug (devpress-factory-for-elementor-video-carousel-popup) in all files
  • Fix: Escaped $aria_label output correctly with esc_attr()
  • Rename: Plugin renamed to "DevPress Factory for Elementor – Video Carousel Popup"
  • Rename: Slug updated to devpress-factory-for-elementor-video-carousel-popup

1.2.2

  • Fix: Plugin slug renamed to devpress-factory-video-carousel (no longer starts with reserved term "elementor")
  • Fix: translators comments now placed immediately before esc_html__() calls as required by PHPCS

1.2.1

  • Fix: Removed CDN dependencies — Swiper and HLS.js are now bundled locally (WordPress.org requirement)
  • Fix: Added escaping functions on all output (WordPress security standards)
  • Fix: Added translators comments on all sprintf() i18n strings
  • Fix: Created languages/ folder (Domain Path header)
  • Fix: Reduced tags to 5 (WordPress.org limit)
  • Fix: Updated "Tested up to" to WordPress 6.9
  • Fix: Plugin slug no longer starts with reserved term "elementor"

1.2.0

  • New: Columns selector — choose 1, 2, 3, or 4 visible cards on desktop; 1, 2, or 3 on tablet; 1 or 2 on mobile
  • New: Scroll behavior control — advance 1 video at a time or scroll a full group (matching the visible column count)
  • Improved: column controls now use a clear dropdown (Select) instead of a number input, with per-device labels
  • Updated: Swiper breakpoints now correctly propagate slidesPerGroup per breakpoint

1.0.0

  • Initial release
  • Swiper-based responsive carousel with configurable breakpoints
  • Popup video player with MP4 and HLS/m3u8 support via HLS.js
  • Full Elementor panel integration: 15+ controls across Content and Style tabs
  • Accessible: keyboard navigation, ARIA attributes, ESC to close
  • Compatible with Elementor 2.0.0 through 3.x