Stratum Widgets: Advanced Posts Elementor Widget

The Advanced Posts widget for Elementor is one of the most customizable and feature-rich widgets for dynamically sourced posts or pages of your WordPress website.

Whether you want to showcase the latest or manually selected posts in a carousel or a modern card-styled grid layout, it’s a doable task with the Advanced Posts Elementor widget by Stratum widgets.

The Purpose of the Advanced Posts Elementor Widget

The Advanced Posts Elementor widget by Stratum will help you:

• Display latest project news (blog posts).
• Selectively showcase popular blog posts in style anywhere on the website.

Key Benefits

Let’s highlight some of the key benefits:

• Modern container shapes, including grid, list, carousel and Masonry styles.
• A good pack of transition behaviors and animation effects to help users interact with your posts.
• Customizable UI controls for the carousel posts slider.
• The ability to selectively feature posts or pages by including or excluding the needed ones.
• Automatic slideshows.

General Features & Settings

Layouts and Design Skins

• List

• Grid

• Carousel

• Masonry. Going with the Grid skin, you are free to set the number of columns and optionally use the Masonry-style grid:

Display post settings

• Show or hide the post image, title and content
• Optionally set an excerpt and its length
• Show or hide the Read more link or replace it with your custom text
• Show or hide the needed meta fields (post author, post category, comment count, etc.)

Post filters for custom query settings

Categorize posts easily with filters (the Query Settings tab in Elementor).

• Showcase posts or pages (so it’s not only posts that you can display in style!).
• Decide on pagination (how many posts to show per page).
• Order your posts by date, title, or menu order.
• Designate ascending or descending order for posts.
• Display only specific posts or exclude the needed ones by IDs.

Styling the Stratum Advanced Posts widget for Elementor

By default, the widget inherits styles (typography and colors) of your activated WordPress theme (it’s Aquentro in my case), but you can give it a completely different look.

Let’s now see how deep you can go into customization of each skin type. Each of them comes with numerous settings allowing you to change layouts, typography, motion and more.

Advanced Posts Elementor Widget – List & Grid Styles

Here are major styling settings:

List & Grid style

• List gap that you can customize individually for different devices (desktop, tablet, phone)
• Columns gap and rows gap for the Grid skin
• Border type
• Box shadow
• Box padding and content padding
• Box background color.

Image style

• Left or right alignment
• Hover animation effect
• Image size

• Image height and width
• Content spacing
• Overlay settings.

Title style

• Title over image
• Title alignment
• Title spacing
• Title typography and color.

Meta fields

• Alignment, spacing, typography, color, and divider color.

Content 

• Alignment, spacing, typography, and color.

Read more

• Alignment, spacing, typography, border type, font color, button background color.

Using Grid, you can set up to 6 columns for layout and optionally turn on Masonry style.

Advanced Posts Elementor Widget – Carousel Layout

The carousel layout comes with extra Carousel settings, including:

• The number of rows, columns and slides to scroll
• Horizontal or vertical slider direction

• Spacing between slides

• Navigation controls design (arrows, pagination, none)
• Dynamic bullets
• Keyboard and mouse-wheel control
• Four slide effects and animation speed, including cube and the coverflow effects.

• Free move mode.

You can also style the carousel widget the way you like:

• The navigation style settings include the arrows size, spacing, color and offset styling

• Carousel style that includes spacing adjustments, content height and width, alignment, animation effects and speed.

The rest of the settings are quite the same as in other skins offered within the widget.

Stratum Free Elementor Widgets: Download Now

Design and display automatically sourced posts of your WordPress website with a powerful styling toolkit that comes with the widget. The Advanced Posts Elementor widget is available for free download along with other brand-new Stratum widgets by MotoPress.

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