Ad-hoc Image Carousel – best practice/tool?

[Greg]

Greg

October 9, 2014 at 1:47 pm

I have several pages that relate to different industries we sell our product into. I have been tasked with putting an image carousel at the bottom of each page, but these contain images specific to the page it’s on. For example:

Media and Entertainment page: a carousel of M&E client logos
Military and Government page: a carousel of M&G client logos

I have discovered one way of doing it. For example, the M&E carousel:

1. Create a new portfolio item for EACH client. So if I want to display 8 client logos, I add 8 portfolio items
2. Set featured image for each of those portfolio items
3. Assign each portfolio item to a particular category (“Media_Entertainment” or whatever)
4. On the page, use the carousel shortcode with type=portfolio and cat=Media_Entertainment

This works.

But it’s kinda tedious when the “high level” version of what I want to do is: “Make a new carousel with this list of 8 images”

Any advice?