Vikash Srivastava

Simple Blog – Plugin allows you to make your website’s Blog integrated and fully functional. By installing this plugin you will get a custom post type section with name “BLOG” which contains all the meta-boxes like Blog title, blog content , Blog short content and some image upload layout for Listing page and Blog single page in website .
You will also find one page with name “BLOG” when you install this plugin and if you will open this page you will find all your blogs listed in this page with beautiful design.
Note*:: Please read “How to Use” which is present in “Other Notes” section carefully and you will know how to use this plugin . And if you have any issue please raise and also feel free to send suggestions so that I can improve to its best extent.
Language Support: The plugin interface in only in English.
<h3>How To Use</h3>
Welcome to the Simple Blog.
After installing the plugin you will get two(2) things .
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Custom post type section with name “Blog” inside your WordPress Dashboard vertical menu where you already see menu items like “Pages , posts , Media”.
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You will get a ready-made page with name “Blog” inside all the pages of wordpress (This is listing page where you can see all the posts that you will made inside the custom post type called “Blog”).
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When you will open the Blog cutom post type you will get an option to upload all the Blogs that you wish to upload .
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Open the page called “Blog” that you will get after installing this plugin and in this page you will see all your Blog posts that you will upload.
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Copy the folder “simpleBlog” this folder you will find inside the plugin folder . Just copy “simpleBlog” folder inside your theme to override the Blog layout templates .
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Note: Do not forget to change the permalink after installing this plugin . For ex. assign permalink to plain and press update button then again change the permalink to whatever you have before installing this plugin and again press update button.
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Note*: A. Please use “Blog image Section for 750px350px” for displaying the post image on Blog Listing page & 
 “Detail Page-Blog Image Section for 740px360px” for displaying this blog post on its detail page. 
 B. A page with Title “Blog” will automatically be created by installing this plugin this page would be 
 used for displaying all your Blogs and can be used as listing of blogs. 
 In “Blog” page you can upload featured image to set the banner of your Blog listing page and the content box has some texts this text will be appear on the banner . 
 C. Copy the “simpleBlog” folder and paste this folder inside your theme to override the single-blog.php and “Blog” page template name is “blog-listing-tpl.php” .
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<h4>Some of the features added by this plugin</h4>
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You can create all your blog posts very easyily.
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Blog section is ready-made.
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Blog meta box is ready-made.
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Blog Listing page is ready-made with template integrated.
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You can copy the folder with name “simpleBlog” which will be present inside the plugin main folder to your theme to over-ride the templates defined in plugin.
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</ul>
<h3>How To Use</h3>
Welcome to the Simple Blog.
After installing the plugin you will get two(2) things .
<ol>
<li>
Custom post type section with name “Blog” inside your WordPress Dashboard vertical menu where you already see menu items like “Pages , posts , Media”.
</li>
<li>
You will get a ready-made page with name “Blog” inside all the pages of wordpress (This is listing page where you can see all the posts that you will made inside the custom post type called “Blog”).
</li>
<li>
When you will open the Blog cutom post type you will get an option to upload all the Blogs that you wish to upload .
</li>
<li>
Open the page called “Blog” that you will get after installing this plugin and in this page you will see all your Blog posts that you will upload.
</li>
<li>
Copy the folder “simpleBlog” this folder you will find inside the plugin folder . Just copy “simpleBlog” folder inside your theme to override the Blog layout templates .
</li>
<li>
Note: Do not forget to change the permalink after installing this plugin . For ex. assign permalink to plain and press update button then again change the permalink to whatever you have before installing this plugin and again press update button.
</li>
<li>
Note*: A. Please use “Blog image Section for 750px350px” for displaying the post image on Blog Listing page & 
 “Detail Page-Blog Image Section for 740px360px” for displaying this blog post on its detail page. 
 B. A page with Title “Blog” will automatically be created by installing this plugin this page would be 
 used for displaying all your Blogs and can be used as listing of blogs. 
 In “Blog” page you can upload featured image to set the banner of your Blog listing page and the content box has some texts this text will be appear on the banner . 
 C. Copy the “simpleBlog” folder and paste this folder inside your theme to override the single-blog.php and “Blog” page template name is “blog-listing-tpl.php” .
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Hope the above explanation is clear and make sense.
<h3>Future Enhancements</h3>
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Provide control inside the plugin to switch between the layouts like side-bar positioning , Blog container screen-sizes.
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Provide control over no of elements shown on Blog listing page like , social links , recent posts , latest posts
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Simple Blog

Enables you to make your Blog section ready for your website. With back-end and front-end with fully responsive layout

Anoop Ranawat

Pratik Jain

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Ketan Patel

Essential Plugin

Piyush Patel

Riddhi Shukla

✅ Now that you have your website ready then why don’t you download and try out this Blog and widget plugin to give it better functionality.
<blockquote>
Note: WP Blog and Widget plugin is created with custom post type. If you are looking for a plugin that works with your WordPress existing Post, please use our plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-designer-for-post-and-widget/" rel="ugc">Blog Designer – Post and Widget</a>.
</blockquote>
By downloading our WordPress blog and widget plugin on your website, you are in a way giving a very professional touch to it. It’s a way to blog your company’s standard and position. It not only has a blog but you can also design and customize it with a brief description as well. Download and try this blog and widget plugin which comes with many other features.
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Your customer might like the professional and fancy vibe of your site with blog and widget.
✅ This plugin displays your blog posts using :
<ul>
<li>Blog (1 designs)</li>
<li>Recent Blog (1 designs)</li>
<li>Blog Widget (1 designs)</li>
</ul>
Download Now it today and explore all the features.
When you want to makeover your WordPress website theme with something extraordinary and creative, you must consider the blog and widget plugin.
WP Blog and widgets, manage and display blog, date archives, widget on your website. You can display the latest blog post on your homepage/front page as well as on the inner page.
The plugin work with shortcode so you can easily display the blog anywhere on your site.
Also added Gutenberg block support.
<h4>✅ Here is the plugin shortcode example</h4>
Blog
<pre><code>[blog]
</code></pre>
Recent Blog
<pre><code>[recent_blog_post]
</code></pre>
To display only slick 4 post:
<pre><code>[blog limit="4"]
</code></pre>
Where limit define the number of posts to display. You can use same parameter with recent blog shortcode.
If you want to display Slider Slider by category then use this short code:
<pre><code>[blog category="category_ID"]
</code></pre>
Enter category id to display categories wise.
Complete shortcode example:
<pre><code>[blog limit="10" category="category_id" grid="2" show_author="false" show_content="true" show_full_content="true" show_category_name="true" show_date="false" content_words_limit="30" ]
</code></pre>
<h4>✅ Here is Template code</h4>
<pre><code><?php echo do_shortcode('[blog]'); ?> 
<?php echo do_shortcode('[recent_blog_post]'); ?> 
</code></pre>
<h4>✅ Use Following Blog parameters with shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[blog]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>limit : [blog limit=”10″] (Display latest 10 blog post and then pagination).</li>
<li>category : [blog category=”category_id”] (Display Blog post categories wise).</li>
<li>grid : [blog grid=”2″] (Display blog in Grid formats. To display blog in list view please do not use ‘grid’ parameter. ).</li>
<li>show_date : [blog show_date=”false”] (Display Blog date OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”)</li>
<li>show_category_name : [blog show_category_name=”true” ] (Display blog post category name OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”).</li>
<li>show_author : [blog show_author=”false”] (Display Blog author OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”)</li>
<li>show_content : [blog show_content=”true” ] (Display blog post Short content OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”).</li>
<li>show_full_content : [blog show_full_content=”true”] (Display Full Blog post content on main page if you do not want word limit. By default value is “false”. Note : This parameter will not work with [recent_blog_post] shortcode.)</li>
<li>content_words_limit : [blog content_words_limit=”30″ ] (Control blog post short content Words limit. By default limit is 20 words).</li>
<li>order : [blog order=”DESC”] (Blog order ie DESC or ASC).</li>
<li>orderby : [blog orderby=”date”] (Order by Blog ie date, ID, author, title, modified and rand etc).</li>
<li>pagination_type: [blog pagination_type=”numeric”] (Select the pagination type for News ie “numeric” OR “next-prev”. Note : This parameter will not work with [recent_blog_post] shortcode. ).</li>
<li>extra_class: [blog extra_class=””] (Enter extra CSS class for design customization).</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅ Use Following Recent Blog parameters with shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[recent_blog_post]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>limit : [recent_blog_post limit=”10″] (Display latest 10 blog post and then pagination).</li>
<li>category : [recent_blog_post category=”category_id”] (Display Blog post categories wise).</li>
<li>grid : [recent_blog_post grid=”2″] (Display blog in Grid formats. To display blog in list view please do not use ‘grid’ parameter. ).</li>
<li>show_date : [recent_blog_post show_date=”false”] (Display Blog date OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”)</li>
<li>show_author : [recent_blog_post show_author=”false”] (Display Blog author OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”)</li>
<li>show_content : [recent_blog_post show_content=”true” ] (Display blog post Short content OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”).</li>
<li>show_full_content : [recent_blog_post show_full_content=”true”] (Display Full Blog post content on main page if you do not want word limit. By default value is “false”.)</li>
<li>show_category_name : [recent_blog_post show_category_name=”true” ] (Display blog post category name OR not. By default value is “True”. Options are “ture OR false”).</li>
<li>content_words_limit : [recent_blog_post content_words_limit=”30″ ] (Control blog post short content Words limit. By default limit is 20 words).</li>
<li>order : [recent_blog_post order=”DESC”] (Blog order ie DESC or ASC).</li>
<li>orderby : [recent_blog_post orderby=”date”] (Order by Blog ie date, ID, author, title, modified and rand etc).</li>
<li>extra_class : [recent_blog_post extra_class=””] (Enter extra CSS class for design customization).</li>
</ul>
If you are getting any kind of problem with the Blog page means you are not able to see all blog posts then please remodify your permalinks Structure for example 
first, select “Default” and save then again select “Custom Structure ” and save.
Finally, the plugin adds a Recent Blog Post widget which can be placed on any sidebar available in your theme. You can set the title of this list and the number of blog posts to show.
✅ Checkout demo for better understanding
<a href="https://demo.essentialplugin.com/blog-demo/?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=Blog-Widget&utm_campaign=Read-Me" rel="nofollow ugc">FREE DEMO</a> | <a href="https://demo.essentialplugin.com/prodemo/pro-blog-and-widgets-plugin-demo/?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=Blog-Widget&utm_campaign=Read-Me" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO DEMO</a>
✅ Essential Plugin Bundle Deal
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<h4>✅ Features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Gutenberg block support.</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Recent Blog</li>
<li>Easy to add.</li>
<li>Smoothly integrates into any theme.</li>
<li>Yearly, Monthly and Daily archives.</li>
<li>You can create multiple post slider with different options at single page or post.</li>
<li>Added Widget Options like Show Blog date, Show Blog Categories, Select Blog Categories.</li>
<li>Added language for German, French (France) (Beta)</li>
<li>Fully responsive. Scales with its container.</li>
<li>100% Multi Language.</li>
</ul>

WP Blog and Widgets

Very useful if you want to add a second blog to your site, outside of regular posts.

Good plugin to add a second blog section to an existing site

A quick, easy way to add a Blog custom post type, Blog widget to WordPress. Also, work with the Gutenberg shortcode block.

Simple Blog vs WP Blog and Widgets