ThemeLoom Widgets

A set of useful widgets created for adding more fluid content to any theme. Especially designed for responsive themes. Also has a very useful shortcode for using some of the functionality inside a post or page. The plugin adds a set of new widgets, including:

• Show Posts Widget – for showing posts excerpts, thumbs and post formats.
• Show Pages Widget” – Shows thumbs/excerpts of child pages of defined parent page.
• flickr Widget – Show flickr thumbs
• Twitter Widget – show your latest tweets
• Facebook Widget – show your facebook page feed without slowing your site down and in a responsive way!

And also adds a powerful shortcode for using the show posts/pages functionality in a post or page.

e.g.

[los_showposts post_type=”posts” columns=”3″ content=”true” heading=”true” cat_id=”” num_posts=”3″ ]

Shortcode Parameters

• Attribute – Description Values
• post_type – Type of query “pages” or “posts”
• cat_id – Category ID for posts e.g. “23”
• exclude_cats – post categories ids to exclude e.g. “23,170,9”
• num_posts – Number of items to show e.g. “5?
• columns – Number of columns to layout “1”, “2”, “3” or “4”
• heading – Show headings “true” or “false”
• author – Show author link “true” or “false”
• tags – Show tags “true” or “false”
• categories – Show categories “true” or “false”
• thumbs – Show Post thumbnails “true” or “false”
• dates – Show Post Dates “true” or “false”
• content – Show post/page excerpt “true” or “false”
• parent_id – When showing pages, show children of this parent page. e.g. “34”
• thumbsize – Image size to use use “widget” or “gallery”
• entrytag – Heading tag for each item e.g. “h3”
• post_formats – Show post format icons “true” or “false”
• post_class – CSS class string to use for each item default is “los-custom-post”
• show_sticky – Set to “1” to enable sticky posts function, “0” is deafult (i.e. sticky is ignored)

More Information

For further information see ThemeLoom

Thanks

• to Andrew Kurtis for Spanish language files