Post layouts for editorial sections

Blog Designer Pack Premium and Blog Designer Pack PRO are paid editions of a WordPress plugin for displaying posts in news, magazine and blog sections. Shortcodes create grids, lists, masonry layouts, sliders, carousels, grid boxes and tickers. Timeline and vertical scrolling displays are also available. Use separate layouts for recent, featured, trending or category posts on news and review websites, personal blogs, and travel, fashion, food or recipe blogs.

Post selection and paid features

Shortcode settings can limit the number of posts, choose a category by ID or slug, pick a styling, and control whether author, category, date, content, tags, comments or a Read More button appear. Other settings set media size and post ordering. Grid and masonry layouts have column and pagination settings; sliders and carousels include controls for autoplay, speed, looping and navigation. Carousels can also set how many posts appear and scroll at a time. Ticker settings include its title, colors, font style, slide direction, autoplay and speed.

Paid capabilities include filtering posts by category or tag, custom post type and taxonomy support, custom tags and custom post links. Category grids and sliders provide topic views, while featured and trending post functions give selected articles a dedicated display. Timeline layouts arrange posts chronologically, and multiple post types can be used in a layout. The PRO capability list includes more than 90 news and blog designs.

Pagination choices include numeric controls, Ajax options, Prev and Next, Load More and infinite scroll. The paid feature list also includes a shortcode generator with live preview and a layout function for managing shortcode layouts centrally.

Shortcodes and widgets

The plugin offers shortcodes for post grids, lists, masonry, sliders, carousels, grid boxes and tickers. Widgets display latest posts or vertically scrolling posts, so editorial content can appear in a widget area as well as within a page.

Setup and theme styling

Install and activate the paid edition in WordPress, choose a layout and its parameters in the shortcode generator, then place the shortcode on the page or post where the display should appear. Configure the content source, filters and presentation settings for each section. The plugin is described as working with WordPress themes, though theme styling changes may be needed for compatibility.