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 …

Tubal

<p>A really simple and lightweight plugin (73 lines of code – comments included) to sort posts on-the-fly without making a new query to the database (improves performance).</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports <strong>all <code>order_by</code> and <code>order</code> values of the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Orderby_Parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">query_posts function</a></strong> except <code>meta_value</code> and <code>meta_value_num</code> (which require a database query).</li>
<li>Supports <strong>changing the order of all types of posts</strong>, including custom post type posts and custom post type “archive” posts.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>This plugin adds the function <code>sort_query_posts_by(string $order_by [, string $order])</code> to the global context.<br />
The second <code>$order</code> parameter is optional. Its default value is <code>asc</code> (ascending order).</p>
<p><strong>Call this function before <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop" rel="nofollow ugc">the loop</a> to change how posts are ordered.</strong><br />
After calling this function you can show the posts as you normally would.</p>
<p>You can sort posts by:</p>
<ul>
<li>author</li>
<li>comment_count</li>
<li>date</li>
<li>id</li>
<li>menu_order</li>
<li>modified</li>
<li>parent</li>
<li>title</li>
</ul>
<p>This is specially useful in two cases:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you need to reorder the posts returned by the query that WordPress creates from your given URL. Custom post type “archive” posts are a great example of this case.</li>
<li>When you need the posts returned by your customized query (e.g. <code>query_posts()</code>) to be shown more than once on the same page and ordered differently.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Examples:</strong></p>
<pre><code><?php sort_query_posts_by('title', 'desc'); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>The example above will sort posts by their title in descending order without making a new query to the database.<br />
This way sorting is performance friendly.</p>
<pre><code><?php sort_query_posts_by('ID'); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>The example above will sort posts by their ID in ascending order.</p>
<pre><code><?php sort_query_posts_by('rand'); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>The example above will sort posts randomly. When sorting randomly <code>$order</code> is ignored.</p>
<p>Plugin developed by Túbal Martín at <a href="http://www.margenn.com" rel="nofollow ugc">www.margenn.com</a>.</p>


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