Gallery carousel issue Kadence Theme 1.3.3

[rich.woodward]

rich.woodward

August 30, 2025 at 3:44 am

Hi,

I found that Kadence Theme update from 1.2.28 to 1.3.3 breaks the Gallery carousel and Row background slider if they are set to one image at a time and fade transition.

Issue
In the editor the carousel plays fine set to autoscroll, fade, one image display at a time. However, on the front end on the first image is displayed followed by blanks where the other images would be. Javascript is firing ok so the carousel continues but only the first image is shown.

Steps taken
I restored a full backup to see if the issue was with a Kadence Blocks update – went back to version 3.5.16 – carousel works.
Next I updated all other plugins except Kadence Blocks – carousel works.
Then I updated Kadence Blocks to 3.5.19 – carousel still works, so it’s not Kadence Blocks
Finally I updated Kadence Theme from 1.2.28 to 1..3.3 – carousel is broken!

I’ve raised a support call, am posting here in case anyone else has experienced it or need to check their sites – the issue was reported to me by a client and I found it has affected all of my sites using single image carousels with fade transitions.