WP Post Modules for NewsPaper and Magazine Layouts (Elementor Addon)

WP Post Modules is an Elementor addon for creating online magazine content, newspaper websites, creative portfolios and blog, effortlessly.

The plugin lets you create post modules with drag and drop UI and intuitive customization settings. With multiple display styles and styling options, the plugin is envisioned to provide an all-purpose tool for creating newspaper/magazine like post sections.

This plugin is also available in WPBakery Page Builder version and Gutenberg version

Try before you buy

Step 1. Log in to the demo site using the following credentials:

Username: guest
Password: guest

Step 2. Navigate to Posts > Add New

Step 3. Click on “Edit with Elementor” button.

Step 4. From the panel on left side, drag “WP Post Modules” widget inside the page content area. You can play around with settings and check how it works.

Step 5. For full width page, click on the settings icon at the bottom of panel and choose “Elementor Canvas” from the Page Layout option.

Key features

• 100% responsive design, optimized for retina display
• WordPress 6.4.x ready
• 12 Pre built Home page layouts (shipped as Elementor JSON template files)
• RTL ready: Supports languages with right-to-left orientation
• Multiple Display styles
  Grid
  – 4 sub styles
  – Unlimited multiple columns
  – Custom Gutters
  List
  – Custom split ratio for thumbnail + content
  – Create any sized list from small to large thumbnails
  – Circular images for list thumbnails
  – Content can be separated as full border, half border or no border
  – Multi Column lists
  Tile
  – Multiple columns
  – Custom gutters
  – Overlay Content with custom background color and gradients
  – Custom overlay content margin/padding
  – Show overlay as always, on-hover or never
  – Image zoom and rotate effect on hover
  Ticker
  – Custom ticker title length
  – Custom ticker animation duration
  – Custom ticker label text
  – Custom ticker label background and foreground with color picker
  Bullet List
  – Plain list with bullets
  – Bullet size and color options
  – List spacing options
• Responsive controls for typography, columns, grid sizes, gutters, etc.
• Advanced Typography options with complete Google Fonts library
  – Set font size, line height, font weight, letter spacing, etc.
  – Responsive controls for typography
  – Custom colors for titles, excerpt, category links, post meta, etc.
• Custom WP Query builder
  – Show posts from categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, post IDs, author IDs, etc.
  – Supports offset and post exclusion to prevent redundancy of posts
  – Order and Orderby parameters supported
• jQuery Owl Slider
  – Supported for Grid, List and Tile display styles and their sub styles
  – Change number of slides per view
  – Toggle animation loop
  – Toggle auto play
  – Set autoplay timeout
  – Set animation speed and animation types (slide, zoom and fade)
  – Toggle auto height
  – Toggle previous/next navigation
  – Toggle dots navigation
  – Stagepadding support
• Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb
  – Custom width, height and hard crop feature
  – Set image quality from 1 to 100 (Optimization Option)
  – Auto convert images to grayscale
  – Auto colorize image from color picker
• Text content options
  – Choose heading tag from h1 to h6 and p (SEO factor)
  – Choose main title font size and font weight
  – Set paragraph tag and font size
  – Auto trimming of post excerpt at desired word length
  – Toggle readmore link with custom readmore text
  – Show/hide post meta items like category, author, date, excerpt and comments
  – Auto conversion of category links into expandable dropdown if category links are more than a specifid number
  – Show author avatar in post meta
  – Built in style and function support for WP Review and Post Views Counter plugin
• Social sharing per post module. (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, GooglePlus, Pinterest, VK, Reddit, Email)
• Valid Schema microdata on generated post content
  – Schema properties can be changed from widget settings
• AJAX next/previous navigation and loadmore feature for grid, list and tile display styles
• W3C valid HTML markup for plugin generated data
• Compatible on all major browsers including IE 9 or above
• Translation ready with POT and PO/MO files included
• Step by step documentation manual for plugin installation and usage
• Professional and dedicated support with fast response time

Plugin Support

All support is provided via comments section and email. For any questions related to the plugin or general query, feel free to email me from my profile page message box at http://codecanyon.net/user/saurabhsharma, or comment on the item comments section. I would be glad to respond. Thank you for browsing the plugin.

Credits

• jQuery library
• BFI Thumb Class
• Live demo images from pexels.com and unsplash.com
• jQuery Marquee
• jQuery Owl Carousel
• jQuery Easing

Installation

For installation and setup, please refer to the documentation/index.html file inside your
main download archive.

Changelog

= Dec 12, 2024 - v2.6.1 =
* Elementor tested upto 3.25.11
* Ensured compatibility upto WordPress 6.7.1

= Oct 28, 2024 - v2.6.0 =
* Added support for post labels
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Title > Post Labels
    - Post labels are custom fields added in a post which can be displayed along with the title
      E.g. Live News, Breaking, Offer, Promoted, etc.
    - For usage instructions, please see the documentation/index.html file's FAQ section.
* Elementor tested upto 3.24.7
* Ensured compatibility upto WordPress 6.6.2 

= Aug 30, 2024 - v2.5.1 =
* Fixed: Elementor inline styling not working
    - Colors, typography and general styling was not coming into effect as chosen from widget settings

= Mar 29, 2024 - v2.5.0 =
* Added Threads social sharing feature
* Updated Fontawesome free icons to v6.5.1
* Elementor tested upto 3.20.3
* Ensured compatibility upto WordPress 6.4.3

= Nov 13, 2023 - v2.4.0 =
* Updated social sharing twitter icons with the new "X" icon
* Included Fontawesome v6.4.2 Free icons library
    - Dropped requirement for the Fontawesome 4 support
* Elementor tested upto 3.17.3
* Ensured compatibility upto WordPress 6.4.1

= July 30, 2023 - v2.3.0 =
* Added option for opening post links in new tab/window
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Display > Open links in new Tab/Window
* Elementor tested upto 3.14.1
* Ensured compatibility upto WordPress 6.2.2

= May 18, 2023 - v2.2.1 =
* Fixed: Image link not working in "Tile" display style
    - Post image should be clickable and linked to permalink or the media file as chosen in widget settings
* Elementor tested upto 3.13.2

= Apr 28, 2023 - v2.2.0 =
* Ensured compatibility with WordPress 6.2
* Elementor tested upto 3.12.2
* Tested and ensured compatibility upto php 8.1.13

= Jan 31, 2023 - v2.1.1 =
* Fixed compatibility with "The 7" theme
    - The image.php file had a name conflict with the theme file
* Updated deprecated Elementor hooks to the latest ones

= Jan 10, 2023 - v2.1.0 =
* Moved image align and margin/padding options into the "Images" section
* Toggle switches with Fontawesome icons updated to the Elementor icons
    - E.g. Image align toggle, title align toggle.
* Fixed: Category links "more" dropdown showing 1 extra count
* Ensured compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1 and Elementor 3.9.x
* Tested compatibility with php 8.0.0

= Mar 28, 2022- v2.0.0 =
* Added option for specifying "No posts found" text
    - See WP Post Modules > Content > Query > No posts found text
* Minified and reduced file size of frontend JavaScript file
* Added Elementor specific keywords for the widget
    - Typing any of the following keywords will show the widget in the editor:
      posts, post grid, post list, query loop, blog posts, portfolio
* Ensured compatibility with WordPress 5.9.2 and Elementor 3.6.x  

= Dec 14, 2021 - v1.9.0 =
* Added "Filter by time period" option
    - Filter posts by today, yesterday, last 7 days, current month, previous month, current year and previous year.
    - WP Post Modules > Content > Query > Filter by time period
* Fixed: Deprecated functions of Elementor widget replaced by latest ones
* Ensured compatibility with WordPress 5.8.2 and Elementor 3.4.x

= May 22, 2021 - v1.8.1 =
* Fixed: Video embeds should show when "Show Embed" is enabled
    - Earlier it required to set post format as "Video" 
    - Now it works for "Standard" post format too
* Fixed: Added default width and height for images if no dimensions are provided in module settings
* Tweak: The "BFI Thumb" and "Hard Crop" now set to 'false' by default

= Nov 16, 2020 - v1.8.0 =
* Added option for 'Filter by Author' on Author archives page
    - See WP Post Modules > Content > Query > Author archive filtering
 (This option is useful when module shortcode is placed in widget areas on author archive page. Module shortcode can be generated using Elementor Pro or Anywhere Elementor plugin ).
* Added option for left/center/right alignment of Ajax Navigation buttons
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Ajax Options > Navigation Align
* Added absolute position option for Author Avatar
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Post Meta > Avatar Position Absolute
* Fixed: php notice for undefined publisher logo
* Tweak: Removed overflow: hidden from the wppm-grid container
    - Using a box shadow on the container causes shadow to clip. Now it is fixed.
** Important: Please clear browser caches after updating the plugin

= Aug 30, 2020 - v1.7.0 =
* Added option for equal height columns
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Display > Equal Height Columns
* Added options for controlling author avatar size, margin and border radius
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Post Meta > Author Avatar (Enable this toggle to see more options below)
* Fixed: Content box shadow hiding within parent containers

= Aug 24, 2020 - v1.6.0 =
* Added text shadow option for post titles
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Title > Text Shadow
* Ensured compatibility with WordPress 5.5

= Apr 15, 2020 - v1.5.3 =
* Added vendor specific CSS Flexbox properties for cross-browser compatibility
* Removed clearfix ::before ::after hack from layouts

= Apr 05, 2020 - v1.5.2 =
* Fixed: Twitter share code updated as per latest Twitter API

= Nov 23, 2019 - v1.5.1 =
* Fixed: Ticker(Marquee) not working in RTL pages
* Fixed: Replaced "break-word" deprecated property with "break-all" for word-break

= Sep 11, 2019 - v1.5.0 =
* Added custom field option for image source
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Images > Image Source
* Added link options for post image
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Images > Image Link
    - Choose as permalink, media file or none
* Added lightbox support for post images
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Images > Image Link (Choose Media File) > Lightbox
* Added custom field option for post title
    See WP Post Modules > Style > Title > Title Source
* Ensured compatibility with Advanced Custom Fields Plugin
    - Custom fields generated via ACF supported on post image, title and excerpt

= Aug 23, 2019 - v1.4.0 =
* Added responsive controls for the following settings:
    - Category links padding and margin
    - Ajax Load More button padding and margin
    - Ajax loadmore button border radius
    - Ajax navigation buttons padding and margin
    - Post title margin
    - Excerpt Margin
    - Category links row margin
    - Post meta row margin
    - Social links outer margin (inline style)
* Added 2 new demo layouts
    - Check /dummy_data/demos/demo_11.json and demo_12.json

= Aug 08, 2019 - v1.3.1 =
* Added option for Post Meta alignment
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Post Meta > Post Meta Align

= Aug 06, 2019 - v1.3.0 =
* Added Responsive control for Image Alignment in list style template
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Display > Image Alignment
* Added Native HTML support in post titles (bold, italics, etc.)
* Fixed: Design compatibility on IE11
    - Important: Please cross-check number of columns for mobile view in grid and list style modules

= June 20, 2019 - v1.2.0 =
* Added style support for languages with right-to-left orientation
* Added option to enable/disable BFI thumb
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Images > Enable BFI Thumb
    - If BFI thumb is disabled, native WordPress Thumbnails will be used
    - Native thumbnails with sourceset supported when BFI is disabled
    - Supports OTF Regenerate thumbnails if BFI disabled
    - Performs faster than BFI Thumb resize
* Added customization options for Post Thumbnail Caption
    - See WP Post Modules > Style > Images > Post Thumbnail Caption
    - Added margin dimension field
    - Added typography option
    - Added text align option
    - Added foreground and background color option for caption text

= June 12, 2019 - v1.1.1 =
* Fixed: Duplicate post IDs when same post is shown multiple times on a page

= June 03, 2019 - v1.1.0 =
* Added text trim support for languages that count 'words' by the individual character (such as East Asian languages)
    - Now uses wp_trim_words() native function

= May 17, 2019 - v1.0.2 =
* Added: "overflow: hidden" property to the .wppm-el-post class
* Fixed: Single post term filtering returning no posts in back-end

= May 15, 2019 - v1.0.1 =
* Added missing demos.zip file inside dummy_data folder of main download

= May 13, 2019 - v1.0.0 =
* initial release