WP Timeline Vertical and Horizontal plugin

Your company was not born the day you uploaded the post

You want to tell the story of your company, a project or a family, and publishing each milestone as a post seems natural. But a blog sorts by publication date. If you load every milestone in one session, WordPress treats them all as having happened that day, and the founding ends up behind whatever you wrote last.

A history needs its own calendar.

WP Timeline, by ExThemes, separates the two. Each item carries its own timeline date and is sorted by it or by a dedicated order field, regardless of the day you wrote it.

Dates a blog cannot handle

What sets this plugin apart shows up when the story leaves the usual calendar:

• Any date, including BC and AD dates, with a date picker from the year 1000.
• Free-form date field for writing whatever you need instead of an exact day.
• Your own numeric order: you type a number on each item and the shortcode sorts by that field.
• Settings export and import to take them to another site.
• External or custom link in place of each item's single page.

If a milestone has no exact date, you can combine the free-form field with the numeric order. That combination is our own recipe, so try it with a couple of items before loading the whole history.

More than 45 layouts, in two directions

There are more than 45 layouts and more than 40 animations, with light and dark modes. The demos break down like this:

• Vertical: Modern, Clean, Wide image, Simple, Background and Classic styles, on two sides or in a single column.
• Horizontal: full width, multiple items at once, step by step and bottom bar.
• Infographics: three styles with their own shortcode.
• Navigation: history bar, AJAX filter, load more, infinite scroll and pagination.
• Content: video, audio and gallery on each item, with Font Awesome icons or images as markers.
• Color: global, per category or per timeline, with custom fonts for headings, text and metadata.

A display plugin, with no agenda or sales

WP Timeline shows content in order; it does not write it for you. Its features do not include ticket sales, bookings or registrations, so it does not replace an events plugin if people need to sign up for something.

You can tell a roadmap with it, but you edit every change yourself: its features do not include votes or statuses either.

Install, load and publish your first timeline

It works with any theme and a shortcode is all you need to display a timeline. It offers support for Elementor, WPBakery and SiteOrigin, and is compatible with WPML. To get started:

1. Upload the plugin under Plugins, Add New, Upload, and activate it.
2. Install the sample data if you want to start from a demo: pick a layout, copy its shortcode and paste it into your page.
3. Go to Timeline, Add New Timeline, write the title and description, add the featured image and publish.
4. Under Timeline, Shortcode builder, create a shortcode with the options you want and paste it into a post, a page or a text widget.

Timelines with a block or with Elementor

Cool Timeline Pro also presents company histories or milestones vertically and horizontally, and is inserted with a shortcode or its own Gutenberg block. If you edit with that editor, it is worth comparing.

If your whole site is built with Elementor, the catalog has Timelentor Timeline Layouts for Elementor.

Dates, content and links in your timeline

Does it accept ancient or BC dates?

Yes. It accepts BC and AD dates; the date picker goes back to the year 1000 and the free-form field lets you write whatever you need.

Can I use my posts or a custom content type?

Yes. It works with categories, tags, custom post types and taxonomies, and the shortcode accepts the post type as an attribute.

Does each milestone need its own page?

No. You can send the item to an external or custom link, and there is a lightbox for images.

Can I have several timelines on the same site?

Yes, as many as you like. With the shortcode you decide which category, how many items and which style each one shows.

Does it work for sites in Arabic or Hebrew?

It has RTL support, and translating its text has its own guide.