Neil Batchelor

EncodeDotHost

<p>EDH Recent Category Manager removes the manual work of curating a “recent articles” category or tag. Once configured, the plugin silently monitors your site and ensures that exactly the number of posts you choose are always assigned to your selected category or tag — no more, no less.</p>
<p>Whenever a post is published, unpublished, or permanently deleted, the membership is recalculated instantly. The oldest post drops out and the newest one takes its place.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Settings page nested under the <strong>Posts</strong> menu in the WordPress admin.</li>
<li>Choose to manage either a <strong>Category</strong> or a <strong>Tag</strong>.</li>
<li>Choose any existing category (excluding the site default) or any existing tag as the managed term.</li>
<li>Select between 1 and 15 posts to maintain.</li>
<li>Switching taxonomy type or changing the managed term cleanly removes the plugin’s assignments from the previous one.</li>
<li>Changing the post count takes effect immediately without waiting for the next publish event.</li>
<li>No configuration files or code edits required after activation.</li>
</ul>


EDH Recent Category Manager

Automatically maintains a configurable number of your latest published posts in a chosen category or tag, in real-time.

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<p>Build a list or grid layout of any post type (products, pages, posts + more).</p>
<p>The visual editing experience makes creating unique designs a breeze.</p>
<ul>
<li>Design post templates (cards) using our drag and drop builder</li>
<li>Built for both Gutenberg users and non Gutenberg users (blocks + shortcodes available)</li>
<li>Query builder – select from multiple post types or restrict by tags, categories, taxonomies, authors and more</li>
<li>Works with any theme</li>
<li>No coding required</li>
<li>Responsive options</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Links</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://customlayouts.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://customlayouts.com/examples/" rel="nofollow ugc">Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="https://customlayouts.com/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/wpcustomlayouts" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow us</a> for updates and tips</li>
</ul>
<h3>What can you make with this plugin?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Popular posts widget</li>
<li>Recent posts widget</li>
<li>A shop layout for listing products (*when combined WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and other product plugins)</li>
<li>A post grid</li>
<li>A portfolio grid</li>
<li>Masonry layouts</li>
<li>Custom post type layouts<br />
And much more…</li>
</ul>
<h3>Layout Editor</h3>
<p>Build single column or grid based layouts using the visual editor.</p>
<ul>
<li>Supports Masonry out of the box</li>
<li>Tons of design options to build the layout you want</li>
<li>Choose to add numbered Pagination ( ‘Load more’ and ‘Infinite scroll’ options are planned )</li>
<li>Powerful query builder</li>
<li>Responsive columns (choose how many columns to show for each device size – and set your own breakpoints)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Query Builder</h3>
<p>Options include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple post type selection</li>
<li>Tag, category and custom taxonomy restriction</li>
<li>Single author or multiple author restriction</li>
<li>Ordering by – post title, published date (for recent posts), modified date, post ID, comment count (for popular posts), author</li>
<li>Posts per page</li>
<li>Offset</li>
<li>Ignore sticky posts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Template Editor</h3>
<ul>
<li>Design individual templates (cards) using our drag and drop editor – creativity is your only limit</li>
<li>Link them with your layouts to build beautiful designs</li>
<li>Hundreds of design options</li>
<li>Unique blocks for building templates + template editor
<ul>
<li>granular control over the blocks you add to your design – choose from a growing list</li>
<li>to re-arrange blocks, just drag and drop</li>
<li>each block has it’s own sidebar full of options such as spacing, colors (including gradients + alpha transparencies), font settings, borders, and more.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Currently available blocks: <strong>Post Title</strong>, <strong>Post Type</strong>, <strong>Post Excerpt</strong>, <strong>Post Author</strong>, <strong>Published + Modified Date</strong>, <strong>Custom Field</strong>, <strong>Taxonomies</strong>, <strong>Link</strong>, <strong>Basic Text</strong> (with shortcode support).<br />
<a href="https://customlayouts.com/documentation/template-elements/" rel="nofollow ugc">Find out more about our template blocks</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gutenberg integration</h3>
<ul>
<li>Custom blocks for building layouts</li>
<li>Seamlessly integrates with our Template Editor</li>
<li>UI built using 90% Gutenberg components 👍</li>
<li>Experimental FSE Query block support (drop our Post Template block into the Query block…)</li>
<li>Works with the version of Gutenberg shipped in WP core, and the Gutenberg plugin (using the latest stable build)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Built for speed</h3>
<ul>
<li>At its base – loads only 1 css file and 1 javascript file on the frontend – total bundle size approx 15kb.</li>
<li>CSS file dynamically created, saving resources and requests per page load (+ avoiding inline CSS)</li>
<li>Caches posts + queries for optimum performance</li>
<li>Not jQuery dependant</li>
</ul>
<h3>Includes 7 sample templates</h3>
<p>We’ve included a pack of templates ready for you to customise – check the installation tab for how to import these to your site.</p>
<h3>Multilingual ready</h3>
<p>Custom Layouts should support most multilingual plugins – we use a custom post type to store content that is not stored in the block editor.<br />
* We’ve also added specific support for WPML’s Advanced Translation Editor.</p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>Admin Template Editor only works on desktop computers (tablets + mobiles not supported)</li>
<li>Admin Template Editor does not work on IE, all other major browsers supported – ** the frontend of this plugin supports IE 11+, no sweat</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improve performance and load speed by providing an option to use CSS Grid for layouts + masonry</li>
<li>Support more CSS unit types in more places</li>
<li>Blocks for WooCommerce</li>
<li>Blocks for ACF</li>
<li>More template blocks (possibly use the block library)</li>
<li>Additional hover options</li>
<li>Additional font options.</li>
<li>Social/sharing blocks</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-layouts/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">Reviews</a> help us improve (and climb the plugin rankings)</strong></p>


Custom Layouts – Post + Product grids made easy

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Build a list or grid layout of any post type (posts, products, pages + more).

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