Basic Details
Plugin Author(s): Tom Usborne (GeneratePress Author)
Free Version?: Yes
Premium Version?: Yes
My Rating: ★★★★★
General Description & Notes
Genesis Featured Page Advanced meets Genesis Featured Posts meets Genesis Featured Widget Amplified meets Content Blocks meets amr Shortcode any widget.
Written by Tom Usborn, dev of GeneratePress, this plugin allows you to embed a “featured pages/posts” section anywhere, using a shortcode.
First you have to create the content (as a WP Show Posts “List”). It will be assigned a shortcode in the format of [wp_show_posts id="nnn"]
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Then you insert that shortcode into any place, via copy/paste: page, post, CPT.
Free Version Features
Posts
- Post type
- Taxonomy
- Terms
- Posts per page
- Pagination
Columns
- Columns
- Columns gutter
Images
- Show images
- Image width
- Image height
- Image alignment
- Image location
Content
- Content type (excerpt or full post)
- Excerpt length
- Include title
- Read more text
- Read more button class
Meta
- Include author
- Author location
- Include date
- Date location
- Include terms
- Terms location
More settings
- Author ID
- Exclude current
- Post ID
- Exclude post ID
- Ignore sticky posts
- Offset
- Order
- Order by
- Status
- Meta key
- Meta value
- Tax operator
- No results message
Pro Version Features
JC: It can be used as a gallery plugin, since it uses lightbox.
Posts
- AJAX pagination
Columns
- Masonry
- Featured post
- Background color
- Background color hover
- Border color
- Border color hover
Images
- Image overlay color
- Image overlay icon
- Image hover effect
- Image lightbox
- Image lightbox gallery
Content
- Read more style
- Read more color
- Content link color
- Content link color hover
- Content text color
- Title color
- Title color hover
Meta
- Meta color
- Meta color hover
Social
- Twitter color + hover
- Facebook color + hover
- Google+
- Google+ color + hover
- Pinterest color + hover
- Love it
- Alignment
Free Version Video
Pro Version Video
Pros
- Theme-agnostic - Supported by any theme - unlike Genesis Featured Page Advanced
- Customizable
- Works with all (?) post types, including custom post types and CPTs from plugins!
Cons
- No UI for inserting shortcode in a post; not a biggy, though.
- As of 7/2/21, not updated in 11 months...
Web Sites
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/
WordPress Repository - https://wpshowposts.com/
Pro Version
Notable Installations
- jeffcohan.net/creatures/ - Using as test on Home Page