WP Post Modules for NewsPaper and Magazine Layouts

WP Post Modules is a WordPress plugin for creating post snippets or modules in different display styles. The plugin is best suited for creating online magazine content, newspaper blocks, creative portfolio showcase and regular blog feeds.

WP Post Modules is shipped as Visual Composer addon. The plugin lets you create WordPress post modules with drag and drop interface and easy to configure parameters. With multiple module types and display options, you have almost endless possibilities for creating creative Home pages for your online Magazine, Newspaper and blog.

Try before you buy

Log in to the live demo using this link and the following details:

Username: guest
Password: guest

Then create a new post and insert a pre built template using Visual Composer backend editor. You can create a full width post by enabling the full width option at the end of post options panel.

Full feature list

• 100% responsive design, optimized for retina display
• 20 Pre built Home page layouts (shipped as Visual Composer templates)
• Supports languages with right-to-left orientation (RTL)
• 7 Display styles
  Grid – See demo
  – 4 sub styles
  – Upto 6 columns grid supported
  – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px
  Card (New) – See demo
  – Upto 6 columns grid supported
  – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px
  – Material Design Style appearance
  List – See demo
  – Custom split ratio for thumbnail + content
  – Create any sized list from small to large thumbnails
  – Circular images for list thumbnails
  – Content can be separated as full border, half border or no border
  Portfolio – See demo
  – Upto 6 columns grid supported
  – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px
  – Overlay Content position as top-let or bottom-left
  – Custom overlay content padding
  – Overlay background as black scrim, transparent or auto detected color from image
  – Show overlay as always, on-hover or never
  – Image zoom and rotate effect on hover
  Tile – See demo
  – 4 sub styles
  – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px
  – Tile viewport width for auto calculation of image dimensions
  – Auto resize and cropping for proper formation of tiles
  – Custom aspect ratio for tile images
  – Overlay features same as portfolio
  Ticker – See demo
  – Custom ticker title length
  – Custom ticker animation duration
  – Custom ticker label text
  – Custom ticker label background and foreground with color picker
• Custom Styling per post module (New) – See demo
  – Select Google Fonts for post heading and text contents separately
  
  – Choose colors for heading, post categories and excerpt via color picker
  
  – Custom Google fonts for section titles
• WP Query builder
  
  – Show posts from categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, post IDs, author IDs, etc.
  – Supports offset and post exclusion to prevent redundancy of posts
  – Order and Orderby parameters supported
• jQuery Owl Slider – See demo
  – Supported for Grid, List and Portfolio display styles and their sub styles
  – Change number of slides per view
  – Toggle animation loop
  – Toggle auto play
  – Set autoplay timeout
  – Set animation speed and animation types (slide, zoom and fade)
  – Toggle auto height
  – Toggle previous/next navigation
  – Toggle dots navigation
  – Custom slide margin for desktop and mobile
• Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb
  – Custom width, height and hard crop feature
  – Set image quality from 1 to 100 (Optimization feature)
  – Auto convert imagest to grayscale
  – Auto colorize image from color picker
• Social Sharing buttons per post module – See demo
  – Buttons include Twitter, Facebook, GooglePlus, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Pinterest, VKOntakte, Reddit, Email
  – Open Graph Tags and Twitter Card meta tags for Single posts
  – Social tags can be disabled using filter
• Auto detect overlay background colors from image background
• Text content options – See screenshot
  – Choose heading tag from h1 to h6 and p (SEO factor)
  – Choose main title font size and font weight
  – Set paragraph tag and font size
  – Auto trimming of post excerpt at desired word length
  – Toggle readmore link with custom readmore text
  – Show/hide post meta items like category, author, date, excerpt and comments
  – Auto conversion of category links into expandable dropdown if category links are too many
  – Show author avatar in post meta
  – Built in style and function support for WP Review and Post Views Counter plugin
• Valid Schema microdata on generated post content
  – Schema properties can be changed from element settings
• AJAX Tabs with full support for WP Post Module element as content – Ajax Tabs example
• AJAX Navigation feature for grid, list, portfolio display styles – Ajax Nav example
• AJAX Loadmore feature for grid, list, portfolio display styles – Ajax Loadmore example
• Custom title element with multiple display styles
• W3C valid HTML markup for plugin generated data
• Compatible on all major browsers including IE 9 or above
• Translation ready with POT and PO/MO files included
• Step by step documentation manual for plugin installation and usage
• Professional and dedicated support with fast response time

Important:
– Images shown on live demo are not included in download package. They are only for demonstration purpose.
– This plugin requires WPBakery Visual Composer Plugin, and is shipped as VC addon.

Plugin support

All support is provided via comments section and email. For any questions related to the plugin or general query, feel free to email me from my profile page message box here or comment on the item comments section. I would be glad to respond. Thank you for browsing the plugin.

Credits

• jQuery library
• BFI Thumb Class
• Icomoon Icons
• Live demo images from pexels.com and unsplash.com
• Visual Composer Template Manager
• jQuery Marquee
• jQuery Owl Carousel
• jQuery Easing

Installation

For installation and setup, please refer to the documentation/index.html file inside your
main download archive.

Changelog

= Aug 10, 2017. v1.5.0 =
* Added ajax loadmore option for grid, list, portfolio and card display styles. (See Display tab of the WPPM element)
* Fixed: php notice shown on 404 pages

= July 29, 2017. v1.4.0 =
* Added RTL language support for the plugin
* Fixed: Whatsapp sharing button shows 404 error

= July 26, 2017. v1.3.1 =
* Fixed: Nested shortcode's custom CSS was not detected properly

= July 23, 2017. v1.3.0 =
* Added CSS Design Options per module element (See "Design Options" tab)
* Added Google font family options for post module and headings (See "Content" tab)
* Added Google fonts for the WPPM Title element
* Added color options for post category links, title and excerpt (See "Colors" tab)
* Added Material Design Card style template (See templates dropdown in "Display" tab)
* Moved inline CSS styles for ticker label into head section

= June 27, 2017. v1.2.0 =
* Changed icon font family name to avoid conflict with icomoon family name
* Limited category items listing to 999 to prevent low memory issues
* Updated core class code for proper functioning with old php versions

= June 21, 2017. v1.1.0 =
* Added Social Sharing buttons for post modules
* Fixed backward compatibility for php versions below 5.4
* Increased height for textarea and multi select drop-downs in Visual Composer elements
* Added Social Meta tags (Open Graph and twitter card tags) for Single posts

= v1.0.0 =
* Initial release