WP Show Posts Plug in It's a WordPress article display plug-in , used to display articles and other forms in a customized form on each page of the WordPress website. The feature of this plug-in is that it can generate various forms of article arrangement by simply setting parameters. It can create a wonderful article list page without the complicated setting process like Avada theme. In this article, Lao Wei will introduce how to use the WP Show Posts plug-in in detail.
WP Show Posts Plug in Installation
In WordPress Dashboard>Plug in>Install Plug in>Search WP Show Posts, install and enable it.
WP Show Posts Plug in Installation
The WP Show Posts plug-in has a Pro version for you to choose from. The Pro version has more functions and is more powerful. Usually, the free version is enough. Lao Wei suggests that you use the free version.
WP Show Posts Plug in Settings
After enabling, you will see the [WP Show Posts] column below the article on the left of the dashboard, which is divided into All lists and Add New.
All lists are all established lists;
First, click Add New to add a new list, as shown in the figure below. Please note that the short code in the red box in the figure below will be used later.
The default is English, which can be used if you don't understand Google Browser Translates Chinese Online To assist.
WP Show Posts Plug in Settings
Lao Wei explained the setting of columns in the above figure with the free English version as an example.
1、posts
- Post type: including page, post, product (if WooCommerce is used) and custom article types;
- Taxonomy: including classification, tag (post_tag), post formats (post_format);
- Posts per page: Select 6 to display 6 posts per page;
- Check Pagination. If there are more than 6 articles on each page, they will be paginated automatically. To prevent duplicate content, pagination can be used only when posts are the only content in the content area;
2、Columns
- Columns: Columns represent the columns of the article;
- Columns gutter: set the separation distance between two columns. The default value is 2em or 20px;
3、Images
- Images: if checked, the article images will be displayed (featured images will be displayed);
- Image width (px) and image height (px), image width and height need not be explained;
- Image alignment: image alignment, left, center, right;
- Image location: image location, below the below title and above the above title;
Content
- Content type: content display form. Excerpt summary, full display, none display;
- Excerpt length (words): the number of summary words, 30 words by default;
- Title element: title element, p, span, h1~h5, generally we choose p;
- Read more text: generally input Read more;
- Read more button class: no need to change;
- Meta yuan, whether to display the author, date time, terms column, comments link comment link;
More settings
- Order: arrange articles in descending or ascending order;
- Order by: sort the list by article ID, author, title, slug, article type, date, modification date, parent, random or comment number;
- Other options are generally not touched;
Finally, don't forget to click update on the right to save it.
Use of WP Show Posts plug-in
Now let's set the parameters to see the effect.
- Name the new lists;
- Select post for post type, 6 for posts per page, and check Pagination;
- Select 3 for Columns, and set 3em for Columns gutter;
- Check Images, Image width 600px，Image height 250px；
- Change the Excerpt length to 20 and add Read more;
- Check all Meta columns;
- The options not mentioned above are set by default;
- Click Update to publish;
Next, go to page>Create a new page, name it, click the WP Show Posts button in the figure below, select the new lists, and click OK.
Use of WP Show Posts plug-in
At this time, code like [wp_show_posts id="48 ″] appears in the content area of the page. In fact, it is the simplified code mentioned above when adding a new list. You can also copy and paste it directly.
Select Content (no sidebars) for page layout, and finally update to save the page.
Preview the page effect, as shown in the following figure:
There are pagination buttons that can be clicked to the next page and the previous page. There are read more buttons that also display the information such as the release date, author, column, picture, and summary of the article.
Because the page is too long, Old Wei didn't take all the screenshots.
WP Show Posts plug-in article arrangement effect with meta information
If you think there is too much information displayed, you can remove all the check boxes of Meta from the parameters and set two columns for display, as shown in the following figure:
You can see that there are pagination pages and links to the next and previous pages.
WP Show Posts plug-in article arrangement effect concise version
If the WooCommerce plug-in is installed and some products have been released, you can select product in the post type, and the product list will be displayed. It is a very practical function for foreign trade websites and product display websites.
WP Show Posts Plug in Product List
Lao Wei's summary
After the above explanation, you will find that WP Show Posts Plug in The practicability of is really good, and the examples given by Old Wei are relatively simple settings, even novices and Xiaobai can understand and easy to use.
If your topic does not provide a rich list of articles, then this WordPress article display plug-in You can't miss it.
The setting items in WP Show Posts Pro are more abundant and the effect is more beautiful. In addition to the article list display, you can make more beautiful article display forms such as pictures and gallery gallery. However, we usually don't use such cool functions in actual use.
So Lao Wei suggested that you choose to use WP Show Posts Plug in That's all right. Later, Lao Wei will also explain in detail how to make practical effects in WordPress themes with the WP Show Posts plug-in.
