ThemeLoom Widgets

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

1. Upload the contents of zip file to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. The new set of widgets will be available in Appearance->Widgets

FAQ

for further information see ThemeLoom

Installation Instructions

1. Upload the contents of zip file to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. The new set of widgets will be available in Appearance->Widgets

Reviews

Excellent plugin that should be widely used

colecoboy84 September 3, 2016

I only know this plugin because it comes standard with theme from the ThemeLoom, one of which I’ve used for years. It’s an extremely useful plugin for displaying posts/pages sorted out by category. It can basically do some of what Visual Composer does, without the bloat AND following proper WP coding standards. I was surprised to find this in the repository – give it a try, it’s an excellent resource!

Contributors & Developers

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.