Create post lists – any kind

Builds post lists based on options you choose from a form in a widget. It works similar to SQL query but no coding knowledge is required. Check out the Live preview and the Video Preview above.

You can drag & drop the widget in as many sidebars or custom widget areas as you like and build as many independent lists as you like. You can easily build any type of list you’d like.

Key characteristics

Unlimited post lists
Choose categories, tags, authors
Custom post types and taxonomies support
Title, excerpt, date, comments
List length and order
List delimiter
Image size – thumbnail, medium, large, custom size
Image positioning – top, right, left, in or out of excerpt
Number of columns – 1,2, 3, 4
Multiple widgets
Custom CSS class for every widget’s instance

Testimonials, Change log, Support

See at the bottom of the page.

Examples

You can create a fully functional website using this widget. Check the live preview to get some ideas

Sidebar examples – right, left, footer
Blog examples
Gallery – 2, 3, 4 columns
Portfolio – 1, 2, 3, 4 columns, Products
Widgetized page examples
and many more …

We look forward to see what you are able to build using Smart Post Lists Widget.

Get more from Smart Post Lists

Most themes for WordPress will come with default sidebars and a few footer areas where you can drop widgets in. If you want to have custom sidebars (widget areas) for instance in content areas of your pages and post, or any other area of your site:

Create custom sidebars (widget areas) by using a plugin. It’s fast and easy.
Create custom sidebars (widget areas) by little coding – advanced users.
Use an advanced theme with more widget areas defined.

Customize front-end outlook

By default the widget looks like all other widgets from the same sidebar you drop it in. It has its own CSS file that overrides the default styles for your list elements. You can use that file to further customize the front-end outlook.

You can also have a custom CSS class for every widget’s instance by entering the class name in the widget’s settings.

Example Lists

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And many more…

How it works

Go to your widgets section. Drag and Drop the widget in the sidebar you want your list to appear. Fill in the form and click save. Here are the options you can choose from:

Select post type to list posts from
Select multiple taxonomies, categories, tags, authors to list posts from
Choose the number of posts to list and where to start listing from
Order the list by: author, date created, date modified, post title, id, random
Order to display posts: ascending, descending
Select fields you want to show: title, author, date, excerpt, number of comments
Select excerpt length in words
Choose to show image on: first post only, all posts, none
Select featured image size you’d like to use: thumbnail, medium, large
Further customize the width or height of your images
Choose image float: top of text, left of text, right of text, left in text, right in text
Choose number of columns: 1 column, 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns
Add a custom class for your widget to be able to style it separately

By filling a simple form this plugin will build an SQL SELECT query, return a result set and build html code based on it. The form controls select expression, where condition, order by expression, limit expression.
No coding is required!

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Testimonials

Tuomas Hali

Thank you so much for your kind and active help! You got my 5 stars for such a brilliant plugin and helpful support.

markcronin

Hi I love the easy set-up of this plug-in. Just works out of the box. Many thanks.

Southland

This is a very useful plugin. It works great.

Deciso

Great plugin. Clean and fast code. Nice.

dakodakov

Good job with that plugin ! It gives a lot of flexibility. I think I’m gonna use it in my next project too.

Naweed

I’m using a drag and drop theme which has widgets included and you can practically do anything possible.. it’s amazing!
And lastly, the Smart Post Lists Widget is the best plugin around at the moment. Even the most sophisticated WordPress Theme Frameworks don’t have all the features this plugin has. Like being able to show the title with the thumbnail in different positions.
Good luck with it!

Support

Got a question or an issue? Please email us via our user page contact form here. We will get back to you as soon as possible!

Updates

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

Rating

If you like this item please consider rating it as a way of supporting consistent improvements.
Note: If you are rating below 5 stars, please contact us. We’ll try to do our best to assist or fix all your point of criticisms.

Change log

Version 2.17 (06.04.2022)

Updated: Set default version of sanitized requests

Version 2.16 (17.02.2022)

Updated: core functions

Version 2.15 (28.10.2021)

Fixed: conflict with grafytiforms
Fixed: php8 conflicts
Updated: framework update
Updated: latest facotry
Added: admin detection
Added: add initial php load so the widget work with WP blocks

Version 2.14 (03.05.2021)

Updated: mutisite deprecated function
Updated: more post sanitizong

Version 2.13 (22.03.2021)

Updated: espace attributes
Updated: remove not used code
Updated: strict mode for js
Updated: file operations
Updated: escape messages
Updated: Use on(); rather than .click(), .bind(), .hover(), .submit(), etc.
Updated: on events in php
Updated: sanitize post and get
Updated: add .pot file
Updated: WordPress 5.7 updates

Version 2.12 (05.10.2018)

Updated: apply patch for multisite
Updated: OTW api plugin update and verify

Version 2.11 (07.12.2017)

Updated: latest version of otw factory
Fixed: error mode modification

Version 2.9 (23.06.2017)

Fixed: load dinamicly taxonomies when the widget is open from other that widgets.php place
Updated: OTW Core components
Updated: WordPress 4.8 support

Version 2.8 (25.10.2015)

Updated: display deeper structure on categories

Version 2.7 (07.09.2015)

Updated: WordPress 4.3 support

Version 2.6 (20.05.2014)

Fixed: Button CSS adjustments

Version 2.5 (13.02.2014)

Added: Show Author option
Fixed: Mix empty array

Version 2.4 (18.05.2013)

Added: Custom post types with no taxonomies selection

Version 2.3 (04.01.2013)

Added: .po files – the plugin is localization ready

Version 2.2 (21.09.2012)

Addded: recursive category listing

Version 2.1 (05.09.2012)

Updated: documentation update
Updated: some functions prefix

Version 2.0 (25.04.2012)

Added: Custom Post Types and taxonomies support
Added: Custom CSS class for every single widget
Added: Widget class verification
Fixed: CSS for “Top of Excerpt”
Fixed: Delimeter in columns fix

Version 1.3 (08.01.2012)

Added: custom css class definition .smart-post-list
Added: widget class for widget container
Fixed: js image resizing

Version 1.2 (26.12.2011)

Added: Number of columns to list in: (1 col, 2 cols, 3cols, 4 cols)
Updated: WordPress 3.3 compatibility
Fixed: JS image fixation
Fixed: img-container class added in top of excerpt case
Updated: delimiter is now a separate li tag
Updated: smart-post-list-separator name to smart-post-list-delimiter

Version 1.1 (12.12.2011)

Added: Order to display posts (DESC, ASC)
Updated: Check if JQuery library is already included

Smart Post Lists WordPress Plugin