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Present your Blog posts in so many ways

Sometimes WordPress themes come with very limited blog options in terms of layout variation, styling options, content re-arrangement, etc.

Blog Manager for WordPress adds tons of blog functionality to your WordPress based website.

Create as many blog post lists as you like. This plugin comes with over 20 templates to choose from. Select list content, modify layout and style your list to get the content and the look you want. Place your lists anywhere in your site by using the list’s shortcode or a widget.

Over 20 templates to choose from!

Either use the default settings for each template or modify the whole list however you want.

Grid – Blog 1 column, 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns
Image left – Blog 1 column, 2 columns
Image right – Blog 1 column, 2 columns
Newspaper – Blog 2 column, 2 columns, 3 columns
Time line
Widget style – image left, image right, image top
Slider
Carousel – 3 columns, 4 columns, 5 columns
Carousel Widget style – 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns

Over 15 hover styles to choose from!

Select a hover style for the images in each individual blog posts list you create. The Blog Manger plugin comes with over 15 hover styles to choose form.

Select and re-arrange list item’s content

For each blog posts list you can choose to show or hide the following content. You can also re-arrange it. It is all drag and drop, easy!

Title
Media
Media type icon
Meta data
Excerpt text
Continue reading
Social media icons

Another drag and drop interface will allow you to select what part of Meta data you want to show for a specific list. Data can be re-arranged too.

Media Types

Select media types for your blog posts

Image
Slider
Youtube
Vimeo
Soundcloud

Options when you create Blog Posts Lists

Most of the settings have defaults so you can create lists within just a few minutes.

Select the posts for your list – categories, tags, authors
Choose template
Select and re-arrange list content
Select list options – order, pagination, link clicks, popups , excerpt length, hover style and much more.
Style your list – easy interface and custom css styling.

Add a list in your site

Once you have created a list you can add it everywhere in your site:

In page/post content area (WYSIWYG editor)
In template files
In a sidebar

Every list has a shortcode you can use to add the list in a page/post content area or in a template file by using the do_shortcode WordPress function. The plugin comes with a widget that can be used to add any blog posts list in a sidebar.

Pagination, load more, infinite scroll

Blog Manager for WordPress offers 3 types of pagination for your blog post lists:

Regular pagination
Load more button
Infinite scroll

Styling

Style your list using the plugin options or custom CSS

Plugin options – style title, excerpt, continue reading, choose background or border for the items in your list
Custom CSS – each list has it’s unique CSS class

Interface and Performance optimizations

Fits well into the core WordPress design
Optimized performance for large WP installations
Building lists is separate in groups
Ajax based operations so you don’t have to wait on pages to refresh
Live preview

Theme Authors and Developers – ThemeForest or elsewhere

Include this item in your themes and give your users tons of Blog functionality. All you need is 1 extended license for each theme you put on the market and permission from the author which you get by writing us: http://themeforest.net/user/OTWthemes#contact

Translation/Localization

This plugin comes Localization/Internationalization ready. It is following WordPress I18n standards. It can be easily translated or localized in other languages different than English.

Updates

If you have any suggestions on how to improve this item please let us know! We will seriously consider any suggestion and add it to item’s update list

Ratings

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Changelog

Version 2.07 (06.04.2022)

Updated: Set default version of sanitized requests

Version 2.06 (17.02.2022)

Updated: core components

Version 2.05 (29.10.2021)

Updated: admin detection
Updated: latest factory
Fiexed: conflict with grafityforms
Fixed: php8 fixes

Version 2.04 (03.06.2021)

Updated: Libraries updated to the latest version: flexislider, colorpicker, datetime picker, select2, footable, animate shadow, countdown, quicksand, nivo-lightbox, owl carousel, waypoints
Updated: Translations file
Updated: CSS optimizations
Updated: post and get sanitizing
Updated: strict mode variable
Updated: js restriction fixes
Updated: remove unused code
Fixed: guthenberg fixes

Version 2.03 (14.01.2020)

Updated: define var as required

Version 2.02 (23.12.2019)

Updated: optimize some js code
Updated: excape some html
Updated: change post id var since some themes use it
Updated: change page variable
Updated: apply latest guthenburg requirements
Fixed: fix semi column
Fixed: add global var

Version 2.01 (10.07.2019)

Updated: escape translatable texts
Updated: dont prefix external js and css
Updated: use wp_filesystem api for file operations
Updated: setting for earesing the plugin data
Updated: escape all attributes
Updated: put js in strict mode
Updated: remove empty files and unused code
Updated: escape html
Updated: sanitize post data
UPdated: use string for text domain
Updated: sanitize copy blog list add nonce field while copy blog list
Fixed: fix select2 so it can work without prefix

Version 1.25 (05.10.2018)

Fixed: IE middle screens image resizing fix
Updated: apply patch for multisite
Updated: OTW api plugin update and verify

Version 1.24 (12.12.2017)

Fixed: php7 compability – fix class constructor name

Version 1.23 (07.12.2017)

Updated: new version of select 2
Fixed: add missing loader
Fixed: enable secutiry checks
Fixed: prevent checkings when api is not responding
Fixed: error mode modification

Version 1.22 (26.07.2017)

Fixed: check images for transparency
Fixed: if post meta data is empty initialize it as array

Version 1.21 (20.06.2017)

Updated: Migrate to select2 v4

Version 1.19 (15.05.2017)

Added: Better SEO for images: alt and title in list media
Added: Exclude current post option
Added: Sticky post support
Update: Pagination for themes that use page query var for current pages instead of paged
Fixed: Grid 2 columns standard pagination when multiple lists are on one page
Fixed: Current page call in a widget
Fixed: Image loader conflicts with other libs
Fixed: Use term ids for filters instead of slugs
Fixed: Last child in mobile view

Version 1.18 (28.09.2016)

Updated: Better responsive videos
Fixed: Remove raw shortocode
Fixed: Remove some global definitions

Version 1.17 (19.04.2016)

Updated: OTW core componets update
Updated: Carousel enabable animation loop
Updated: Laziload image scripts handle
Updated: WPML full compatibility verified by the WPML team
Added: Opacity for background color option

Version 1.16 (08.01.2016)

Added: support for More tag in the post editor
Updated: Ajax posts selection logic
Updated: Replace new lines with BR
Updated: Blog widget can now inset any kind of post lists, not just widget style
Updated: isotope version to 2.2
Updated: Posts selection all categories option now automatically add newly added categories
Updated: Check for existing css file
Fixed: Add default option in VC dropdown
Fixed: Replace global clear class definition

Version 1.15 (06.11.2015)

Added: New Styling Options – Border & Background Color
Updated: Post selection Select all option: automatically add posts from newly created categories, tags, authors

Version 1.14 (15.10.2015)

Added: options to exclude category/tag/author from a posts selection

Version 1.13 (11.10.2015)

Fixed: prevent usage of pluggable

Version 1.12 (09.10.2015)

Added: Post Order random option
Added: Create thumbs in different formats
Fixed: placeholders
Fixed: some global css definitions

Version 1.11 (11.09.2015)

Updated: WordPress 4.3 support
Added: Strip shortcodes from excerpt option
Added: https support
Added: Social Icons – select icons to show Option
Added: Social Icons – Custom icons field with HTML and Shortcodes enabled
Fixed: Standard pagination number of pages fix
Fixed: Minor jquery fixes

Version 1.10 (17.07.2015)

Added: Strip HTML Tags from excerpt option
Updated: Visual Composer: process shortcodes in content

Version 1.9 (04.06.2015)

Updated: remove default definitions

Version 1.8 (30.04.2015)

Fixed: OTW Blog Manager Media Item metabox – remove metadata when type not selected

Version 1.7 (25.04.2015)

Fixed: added a few string translations in the .po/.mo files
Fixed: minor jquery fixes
Fixed: loading BM scripts in admin only on pages where needed

Version 1.6 (08.04.2015)

Added: duplicate blog lists option

Version 1.5 (04.03.2015)

Fixed: jquery conflicts

Version 1.4 (27.02.2015)

Fixed: Load more fixed to work on multiple lists on one page
Updated: better Visual Composer support

Version 1.3 (19.01.2015)

Fixed: multiple widgets css styling

Version 1.2 (15.01.2015)

Updated: Skins folder changed tp wp uploads folder

Version 1.1 (14.01.2015)

Added: .po/.mo files for translation
Fixed: DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR definition
Fixed: Multi list in same bach custom css include
Fixed: jquery issues

Version 1.0 (05.01.2015)

Initial release

Blog Manager WordPress Plugin