Blog Manager

Your best articles deserve better than your theme's post list

Many themes come with a blog page that offers few variations: one column, a grid and little else. That page is the shelf for your content: if a visitor finishes an article and the list does not show the next one in an appealing way, they leave. Blog Manager lets you create as many post lists as you want, each with its own template, content and style, and place them wherever suits you.

It works just as well for a homepage that shows only the latest news, for a category page with a different look or for a sidebar with featured posts, because each list is configured separately.

Over 20 Blog Manager templates and over 15 hover effects

The templates are grouped into families and most of them support several columns:

• Grid: from 1 to 4 columns.
• Image left or right: 1 or 2 columns.
• Newspaper: 2 or 3 columns.
• Timeline.
• Widget style: image left, right or top.
• Slider carousel: from 3 to 5 columns, plus a widget-style variant with 2 to 4 columns.

You can keep the default settings of each template or modify the whole list. In addition, for each list you choose one of the more than 15 hover effects applied to the images.

With Blog Manager you decide what each card shows and in what order

In each list you can show, hide and reorder by dragging these elements: title, media, media type icon, meta data, excerpt, continue reading link and social media icons. The meta data has its own selector, also with drag and drop, so you keep only what matters (for example, removing what adds nothing in a short list).

The supported media types are image, slider, YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud, which is useful if your blog mixes text articles with video or audio. The posts in a list are chosen by categories, tags or authors, and you adjust the order, pagination, click behavior, popups and excerpt length.

The page for each single post is still up to your theme

Blog Manager builds post lists. Before installing it, separate what it already solves from what you will have to cover yourself:

• It solves: the design of the lists, the choice of content on each card, the hover effects, the carousel and the pagination.
• It solves: placing each list on a page, in a post, in a sidebar or in a theme file.
• You cover: the look of the single post page, which depends on your theme.
• You or a professional cover: any style the plugin options do not reach, with your own CSS.
• You cover: deciding which list goes on each page and checking how it looks on mobile before publishing.

Pagination, load more button or infinite scroll

Each list can use regular pagination, a load more button or infinite scroll. To place it, each list has its own shortcode, which you paste into the editor of a page or post, or into a theme file with the do_shortcode function. For sidebars there is a widget. As for style, there are options for title, excerpt, continue reading and background or border of the items, and each list has its own CSS class for manual tweaks. The plugin is ready to be translated into other languages.

Frequently asked questions

How many lists can I create?

As many as you want, each with its own template, post selection and style.

Can I place it outside the content of a page?

Yes: with the shortcode in the content or in theme files, and with the widget in a sidebar.

Can I tweak the design with CSS?

Yes. Each list has a unique CSS class, so you can style one without affecting the others.

Does it support posts with video or audio?

Yes, you can choose image, slider, YouTube, Vimeo or SoundCloud as the media type.