Randomize the Starting Slide in Divi Epic Image Carousel

Written by Dan Mossop

The Divi Carousel Pro from Divi Epic offers an Image Carousel feature that utilizes the powerful Slick Carousel library. If you want to randomize the starting slide in the Image Carousel, this post explains how to do it.

Randomize the Image Carousel Starting Slide using jQuery

To randomize the starting slide, you can directly call the Slick Carousel and instruct it to go to a random slide on page load. Here's the necessary jQuery code to achieve this:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    var carouselClass = '.wdc_image_carousel_0';
    setTimeout(function() {
        $(carouselClass + ' .slick-slider').slick('slickGoTo', Math.floor(Math.random() * $(carouselClass + ' .slick-track .slick-slide').length));
    }, 1000); // Delay of 1000 milliseconds (1 second)
});

You can add this code via Divi's Theme Options at:

WP Admin > Divi > Theme Options > Integration > Add code to the head of your blog.

The current delay is set to 1000 milliseconds (1 second), but you may need to adjust this to ensure the code runs after the carousel has been initialized on the page.

The example targets the first image carousel module on the page. For targeting a specific module, you can replace .wdc_image_carousel_0 with a custom class, such as .carousel-random-starting-point, and assign it in the module settings under:

Advanced > CSS ID & Classes > CSS Class.

Now your carousel should start at a random slide each time. 

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About Dan Mossop

Dan is a Scottish-born web developer, now living in Brisbane with his wife and son. He has been sharing tips and helping users with Divi since 2014. He created Divi Booster, the first Divi plugin, and continues to develop it along with 20+ other Divi plugins. Dan has a PhD in Computer Science, a background in web security and likes a lot of stuff, 

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