Description
A set of useful widgets created for adding more fluid content to any theme. Especially designed for responsive themes. Also has a very useful shortcode for using some of the functionality inside a post or page. The plugin adds a set of new widgets, including:
- Show Posts Widget — for showing posts excerpts, thumbs and post formats.
- Show Pages Widget» — Shows thumbs/excerpts of child pages of defined parent page.
- flickr Widget — Show flickr thumbs
- Twitter Widget — show your latest tweets
- Facebook Widget — show your facebook page feed without slowing your site down and in a responsive way!
And also adds a powerful shortcode for using the show posts/pages functionality in a post or page.
e.g.
[los_showposts post_type=»posts» columns=»3″ content=»true» heading=»true» cat_id=»» num_posts=»3″ ]
Shortcode Parameters
- Attribute — Description Values
- post_type — Type of query «pages» or «posts»
- cat_id — Category ID for posts e.g. «23»
- exclude_cats — post categories ids to exclude e.g. «23,170,9»
- num_posts — Number of items to show e.g. «5?
- columns — Number of columns to layout «1», «2», «3» or «4»
- heading — Show headings «true» or «false»
- author — Show author link «true» or «false»
- tags — Show tags «true» or «false»
- categories — Show categories «true» or «false»
- thumbs — Show Post thumbnails «true» or «false»
- dates — Show Post Dates «true» or «false»
- content — Show post/page excerpt «true» or «false»
- parent_id — When showing pages, show children of this parent page. e.g. «34»
- thumbsize — Image size to use use «widget» or «gallery»
- entrytag — Heading tag for each item e.g. «h3»
- post_formats — Show post format icons «true» or «false»
- post_class — CSS class string to use for each item default is «los-custom-post»
- show_sticky — Set to «1» to enable sticky posts function, «0» is deafult (i.e. sticky is ignored)
More Information
For further information see ThemeLoom
Thanks
- to Andrew Kurtis for Spanish language files
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the contents of zip file to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- The new set of widgets will be available in Appearance->Widgets
FAQ
for further information see ThemeLoom
- Installation Instructions
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- Upload the contents of zip file to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- The new set of widgets will be available in Appearance->Widgets
- Upload the contents of zip file to the
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Contributors & Developers
“ThemeLoom Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.8.5
- fixed facebook like count not showing
1.8.4
- fixed for new facebook api version
1.8.3
- updated deprecated functions
- fixed margin on mobile columns
1.8.2
- fixed links in fb feed
1.8.1
- fixed missing fields in fb feed
1.8
- fixed issue with api 2.4
1.7
- Updated to latest facebook api
1.6
- Added page feed option to show all or only Page’s posts in feed
- Now clears cache on widget save
- Cache expire period now editable in widget
1.5
- Added Spanish language files (thanks to Andrew Kurtis)
1.4
- Small fix for Facebook widget
1.3
- Added option to exclude post categories and a exclude_cats shortcode parameter.
1.2
- Added a Facebook widget using Graph API
1.1
- Switched Twitter widget to use new API. Now requires api keys.
1.0
- First release.