Mostafa Shahiri

The Modern Portfolio is a simple widget that displays posts as portfolios based on different filters. 
It is a very useful and applicable plugin for news website, company websites, shopping websites and other 
websites that work with portfolios or filterable items. The Modern Portfolio enables you to show your posts 
based on different filters and items. You can set the options of this widget to filter posts based on their 
tags, their categories or their authors. It gains AJAX method for loading more posts to improve the performance 
for your website. The Modern Portfolio is very flexible with customizable settings ( See screenshot images ).
Some Features of The Modern Portfolio:
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Displaying posts based on tags, categories and authors
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Gainig AJAX method for loading more posts
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Easy to use
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Customizable settings
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Limiting the number of posts
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Ordering posts and pages based on created date, modified date, comments count and random.
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Limiting the length of posts descriptions
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Custom text for readmore links.
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Using a pretty style for displaying the items.
Settings of the Widget:
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Title: A title for widget.Leave it empty if you don’t like to show the title.
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Source Type: The plugin can filter posts based on tags or categories or authors.
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Tags: Selected tags as the filters.
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Categories: Selected categories as the filters.
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Authors: Selected authors as the filters.
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Count: Number of posts are shown in first review before loading more posts.
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Limit Description Length: Number of words for truncating posts descriptions.
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Order By: Ordering type.
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Order: Determine to order posts ascending or descending.
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Readmore Text: A text for readmore button.
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Other options are used for showing or hiding posts items.
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Modern Portfolio

The Modern Portfolio is a simple widget to show posts as portfolios based on different filters.

OTWthemes

You can create a fully functional website using this widget. Check out the showcase. 
Drag & drop the widget in as many sidebars or custom widget areas as you like and build as many independent lists as you like. It is very easy to build any type of list you’d like. 
It works similar to SQL query but no coding knowledge is required! 
<a href="http://otwthemes.com/demos/smart-post-lists-light/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=demo&utm_campaign=spll" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out demo site</a>
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<a href="https://1.envato.market/c/1246358/275988/4415?subId1=spl&subId2=2020&subId3=https%3A%2F%2Fcodecanyon.net%2Fitem%2Fsmart-post-lists-widget-for-wordpress%2F935289&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcodecanyon.net%2Fitem%2Fsmart-post-lists-widget-for-wordpress%2F935289" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro Version</a> | 
 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A8q7UQJzLg" rel="nofollow ugc">Video demonstration</a>.
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How it works
Go to your widgets section. Drag and Drop the widget in a sidebar(widget area) that you want your list to appear in. Fill in the form and click save. Here are the options you can choose from:
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<li>Select multiple categories and tags to list posts from.</li>
<li>Choose the number of posts to list and where to start listing from.</li>
<li>Order the list by: author, date created, date modified, post title.</li>
<li>Order to display posts: ascending, descending.</li>
<li>Select fields you want to show: title, date, excerpt, number of comments.</li>
<li>Select excerpt length in words</li>
<li>Choose to show image on: all posts, first only or none</li>
<li>Choose size of the image: thumb, medium, large</li>
<li>Choose image float: top of text, left of text, right of text</li>
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By filling a simple form this plugin will build an SQL SELECT query, return a result set and build html code based on it. The form controls select expression, where condition, order by expression, limit expression. 
No coding is required!
Showcase
You can create a fully functional website using this widget. Get some ideas at the <a href="http://otwthemes.com/demos/smart-post-lists-light/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=demo&utm_campaign=spll" rel="nofollow ugc">demo site</a>.
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<li>Sidebar examples</li>
<li>Footer examples</li>
<li>Blog examples</li>
<li>Portfolio example</li>
<li>Products example</li>
<li>Widgetized page</li>
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Customize front-end
By default the widget looks like all other widgets from the same sidebar (widget area) you drop it in. It has its own CSS file that overrides the default styles for your list elements. You can use that file to further customize the front-end outlook.
Get more of this plugin
Most themes for WordPress will come with default sidebars and a few footer areas where you can drop widgets in. If you want to have custom widget areas for instance in content areas of your pages and post, or any other area of your site:
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<li>Create your custom widget areas by using a plugin. It’s fast and easy.</li>
<li>Create your custom widget areas by little coding – advanced users.</li>
<li>Use an advanced theme with more widget areas defined.</li>
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Smart Post Lists Light

Create custom post lists based on options you choose from a form in a widget. Different types of lists, blog, portfolio, services pages. No coding.

Modern Portfolio vs Smart Post Lists Light