WPCT Drag & Drop Recent Posts
You can display image slides with title, image, author name, date, description, and read more linked to posts from the selected category.
You can order these elements as you wish using the drag & drop mechanism. Slides have a sightly animation effect.
The user may select categories or other taxonomy items. This widget can also display custom post types.
A number of slides are unlimited and you may specify how many slides you want to be visible in the column.
Please check out our DEMO.
Configuration (see screenshot of backend):
- Widget title.
- Post type – enter post type name you want to display posts from.
- Post type taxonomy – enter post type taxonomy name to restrict the data to display.
- Taxonomy – select taxonomy items. You may select specified categories or display items from all categories. Empty taxonomy is not displayed.
- Show archive links below items to give a possibility to read more posts from selected categories.
- Force display sticky posts – applies to post type only, select if you want to include a sticky post to slides.
- Number of items in a row.
- Number of rows.
- Number of all items – total number of slides.
- Show or hide post titles.
- Make post title clickable.
- Choose header tag for titles.
- Creation date – show/hide post creation date, the date format is taken from global settings, display date above or below the title.
- Show or hide the author’s name.
- Show or hide post taxonomy items (a category name)
- Readmore – show/hide read more link.
- Order direction (ascending, descending).
- Ordering type (date, title, most commented).
- Navigation (bullets, none).
- Description limit – enter number of chars for each slide description.
- Image floating (left, right, none).
- Show/hide thumbnail.
- Thumbnail clickable – link the image to the full post
- Interval in milliseconds for a sliding.
- Enable or disable pause on hover.
- Image size from WordPress settings (Settings > Media). You can choose: thumbnail, medium, large
- Grid spacing – space between items.
- Drag and drop to change order of the post elements.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.