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<p>Easy is a multi-functional widget covering most of the native WordPress functions commonly used in templates.<br />
You can place almost any part of your content anywhere in your sidebars.</p>
<p>The widget is made out of drag&drop bits (bricks) and is totally up to you what you want to show on your website.</p>
<p>Showcase:</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N8KoQmQmXB0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Easy widget has variety of bricks representing the content and its logic. You can make simple or complex layout simply by dragging the bricks in to their slots and define on what cases it has to be shown or not.</p>
<p>Content bricks are:</p>
<ul>
<li>title</li>
<li>content</li>
<li>featured image</li>
<li>categories</li>
<li>tags</li>
<li>taxonomies</li>
<li>custom meta</li>
<li>comments</li>
<li>author</li>
<li>date</li>
<li>shortcode</li>
<li>post gallery</li>
<li>sidebar</li>
<li>WPpagenavi (when installed)</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>and even your own content bricks if you like</li>
</ul>
<p>The resulting content is displayed based on the logic you build the same way as you did the content.<br />
You just drag the logical bricks to their slot and the content will be shown based on that logic.<br />
Logical bricks are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of posts</li>
<li>post type chooser</li>
<li>offset</li>
<li>hierarchical logic (for pages and alike) </li>
<li>category filter</li>
<li>custom meta filter</li>
<li>post status</li>
<li>edit link</li>
<li>permissions</li>
<li>meta filter</li>
<li>taxonomy filter</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>and even your own logic bricks if you like</li>
</ul>
<p>In adition to that the result can be designed to your needs. You can add your own classes to the whole widget (the HTML structure) and also to each content brick (a part of the content).<br />
Then again it is totally up to you how you design your website.</p>
<p>Does it reminds you something?<br />
Yes, it is exactly what you do when you design your template; you loop through the post or pages in your template, but this time without touching the code.<br />
All the content and logical bricks are only graphical representation of the WordPress functions.</p>
<p>The aim of this plugin is to speed up common programming work, so we do not have to repeat our selves.<br />
Imagine a website made out of “sidebars” filled with widgets representing the list of last posts, menu, the image gallery, any content that is actually the website.<br />
All built out of widgets that you can re-arrange anyway you or your client like right out of the admin area. That is the main purpose of the widgets anyway, Easy makes it real.</p>
<h4>Notice</h4>
<p>In order to have the website fast as light even with the Easy plugin heavily in charge use the W3TC caching plugin [<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="ugc">1</a>]</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/general" rel="nofollow ugc">General description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/view" rel="nofollow ugc">View description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/control" rel="nofollow ugc">Control description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/extend" rel="nofollow ugc">Extend</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy theme framework</h4>
<p>A pure theme with slots (sidebars) for tons of your widgets.<br />
 * <a href="http://2046.cz/easy-framework" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy framework</a></p>
<h4>Compatible with (although not fully covering):</h4>
<p><a href="http://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate/" rel="ugc">qTranslate</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/&sa=U&ei=R-DNUcKJIM2B4AT7xoGwDQ&ved=0CAcQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNE2SU-CT1WLx80VKYlh4e1w6ZIcbg" rel="nofollow ugc">CCTM</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/" rel="ugc">WP-pagenavi</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="ugc">W3TC</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/" rel="ugc">fancybox</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-to-posts/" rel="ugc">Posts 2 Posts</a>, <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced custom fields</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/timber-library/" rel="ugc">Timber</a> and others.</p>


Easy

Plenty of options. Easy to use. Highly recommended to anyone who needs to create a custom configurable widget without the hassle of touching any PHP code. May need to add a dash of CSS to style your creation though.
One recommendation: Add a way to override HTML tags. For example, I prefer to use < article > instead of div and < li > for some items. A text field for the preferred HTML tag above the CSS text field would work well.
Thank you!



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<p><strong>ECS adds what Elementor doesn’t have — without replacing what it does well.</strong></p>
<p>Every feature is a standalone module. Enable only what you need from <strong>ECS <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Modules</strong> in the WordPress admin. Unused modules load zero CSS, zero JS, and register no hooks.</p>
<h4>🎨 Dark Mode Colours</h4>
<p>A <strong>Default Colours</strong> tab appears inside Elementor’s Site Settings, right next to Global Colors.</p>
<ul>
<li>Set a <strong>Default</strong> and a <strong>Dark Mode</strong> colour for every global colour slot.</li>
<li>Dark mode colours are written as CSS variables — no JavaScript swapping, pure CSS, zero flash.</li>
<li>A <strong>fallback swatch</strong> shows the default colour when the dark slot is empty.</li>
<li>The <strong>Dark Mode Switcher</strong> widget lets visitors toggle between light and dark with full style controls.</li>
</ul>
<h4>📐 Container Layout</h4>
<p>Two additional layout modes for Elementor Flex Containers:</p>
<p><strong>Slider Mode</strong> — Turn any container into a CSS-only slider. No JS library, no dependencies.</p>
<p><strong>Custom Layout</strong> — Pick a Theme Builder template as the layout frame. Place ECS Placeholder widgets inside the template; ECS distributes the container’s children into those slots automatically. Supports cycling and graceful fallback. Works live in the Elementor editor.</p>
<h4>🔁 Loop Custom Layout</h4>
<p>Arrange Loop Grid items inside a Custom Layout template using ECS Placeholder widgets — powered by Elementor’s native Loop Grid query. Full editorial control over the item grid without leaving Elementor.</p>
<h4>📱 Menu Responsive</h4>
<p>Turn any Elementor Nav Menu widget into a responsive hamburger menu. Layout, alignment, animation, and breakpoint controls — all from the Elementor panel.</p>
<h4>✍️ Editorial Text</h4>
<p>Wrap images inside text blocks with float controls and captions. Magazine-style editorial layouts built entirely in Elementor.</p>
<h4>🎨 Style Templates</h4>
<p>Save any widget’s Style tab settings as a named preset and apply them to other widgets of the same type in one click — across pages, templates, and sites. Export and import your full style library as JSON.</p>
<h4>🛠 JSON PowerEdit</h4>
<p>Edit any Elementor widget’s raw settings JSON directly from the panel. Raw textarea for paste-and-replace, interactive tree view for surgical edits. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl/Cmd + Enter to apply.</p>
<h4>✅ Legacy (ECS 3.x — backward compatibility)</h4>
<p>The original loop skin functionality is preserved in the Legacy module for existing sites built with ECS 3.x. If you’re updating from ECS 3.x, this module activates automatically. For new projects, use Elementor’s native Loop Builder.</p>
<p>Note: This plugin requires Elementor (free). Container Layout (Custom Layout mode) and Style Templates require Elementor Pro.</p>


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Seven free modules for Elementor: dark mode, container layouts, mobile menu, editorial text, style presets, JSON editor — all modular, all free.

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