Tim Hyde

<p>A set of useful widgets created for adding more fluid content to any theme. Especially designed for responsive themes. Also has a very useful shortcode for using some of the functionality inside a post or page. The plugin adds a set of new widgets, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Show Posts Widget – for showing posts excerpts, thumbs and post formats.</li>
<li>Show Pages Widget” – Shows thumbs/excerpts of child pages of defined parent page.</li>
<li>flickr Widget – Show flickr thumbs</li>
<li>Twitter Widget – show your latest tweets</li>
<li>Facebook Widget – show your facebook page feed without slowing your site down and in a responsive way!</li>
</ul>
<p>And also adds a powerful shortcode for using the show posts/pages functionality in a post or page.</p>
<p>e.g.</p>
<p>[los_showposts post_type=”posts” columns=”3″ content=”true” heading=”true” cat_id=”” num_posts=”3″ ]</p>
<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>Attribute – Description   Values</li>
<li>post_type – Type of query “pages” or “posts”</li>
<li>cat_id – Category ID for posts    e.g. “23”</li>
<li>exclude_cats – post categories ids to exclude e.g. “23,170,9”</li>
<li>num_posts – Number of items to show   e.g. “5?</li>
<li>columns – Number of columns to layout “1”, “2”, “3” or “4”</li>
<li>heading – Show headings   “true” or “false”</li>
<li>author – Show author link “true” or “false”</li>
<li>tags – Show tags  “true” or “false”</li>
<li>categories – Show categories  “true” or “false”</li>
<li>thumbs – Show Post thumbnails “true” or “false”</li>
<li>dates – Show Post Dates   “true” or “false”</li>
<li>content – Show post/page excerpt  “true” or “false”</li>
<li>parent_id – When showing pages, show children of this parent page.    e.g. “34”</li>
<li>thumbsize – Image size to use use “widget” or “gallery”</li>
<li>entrytag – Heading tag for each item  e.g. “h3”</li>
<li>post_formats – Show post format icons “true” or “false”</li>
<li>post_class – CSS class string to use for each item    default is “los-custom-post”</li>
<li>show_sticky – Set to “1” to enable sticky posts function, “0” is deafult (i.e. sticky is ignored)</li>
</ul>
<h4>More Information</h4>
<p>For further information see <a href="http://themeloom.com/" title="The ThemeLoom" rel="nofollow ugc">ThemeLoom</a></p>
<h4>Thanks</h4>
<ul>
<li>to Andrew Kurtis for Spanish language files</li>
</ul>


ThemeLoom Widgets

A set of useful widgets created for adding more fluid content to any theme. Includes widgets for showing posts, pages, as well as Facebook and Twitter …

Jonathan Daggerhart

<p>This plugin lets you create new WP queries as widgets and use shortcodes for queries on your pages.  It also allows you to override the way category and tag pages display.</p>
<p>Query Wrangler’s interface is highly intuitive way to create queries and will be second nature for any Drupal Views user.</p>
<p>This plugin will bring extreme flexibility to WordPress users with its ability to create custom queries using the WP_Query class with a user interface.</p>
<p>Supports:</p>
<ul>
<li>Most post data, including meta fields</li>
<li>Taxonomy data</li>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields</li>
<li>Custom Content Type Manager</li>
<li>Some exposed filters</li>
</ul>
<p>Some examples of how you would use this plugin include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a list posts with featured images</li>
<li>Create a list of pages or posts within a specific category or tag</li>
<li>Create an image gallery</li>
<li>Modify the way your category pages look</li>
</ul>


Query Wrangler

Query Wrangler provides an intuitive interface for creating complex WP queries as shortcodes and widgets. UI based on Drupal Views.

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