First, to clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://projectdmc.org/documentation/article/difference-between-wordpress-org-and-wordpress-com/
With that said, the Jetpack plugin brings a lot of WordPress.com features to self-hosted WordPress.org site: https://projectdmc.org/plugins/jetpack/
And, that includes what you’re looking for, Carousel: https://jetpack.com/support/carousel/
Thanks for the response. To clarify, I do have Jetpack installed, and I do understand that ‘slideshow’ and ‘Tiled Gallery’ are Jetpack features. But as far as ‘the ‘basic’ gallery tool is concerned, are you saying that the ability to ‘step through’ the basic gallery feature (using < and >) (carousel) is not present unless you install Jetpack?
Now, I do have Jetpack, and you should see on the sample post I provided, that I have added a ’tiled gallery’ and a ‘slideshow’, and they both ‘function’ to some extent, but – for both ‘gallery’ and ’tiled gallery’, the ability to step through the gallery (the ‘carousel feature) is NOT working!
I just downgraded my site from php 8.2 to php 7.4 as a test; no change.
OK – I just read how to enable the carousel feature of Jetpack – thanks for the link – and SURE ENOUGH – I can now step through the gallery in the basic gallery feature! SO – not only does Jetpack add new tools, it enhances standard tools – that’s the part I did not understand.
So is there no ‘built in’ ability within WordPress to have a ‘carousel’ feature?
Anyway – thanks for the response!