Advanced Post Block – Display Your Posts Exactly How You Want

Each layout includes sub-layouts such as Title Meta, Left or Right Image, Overlay Content, and Overlay Half Content.

Filtering and Query Controls

• Easily select and organize the content you want to display:
• Display standard posts, pages, or any custom post type.
• Filter by categories, tags, or authors.
• Control post order and offset.
• Include or exclude exact posts by ID.
• Split long lists across pages with pagination or prev/next navigation.

Design Customization

Fine-tune the look and feel of your content listings:

• Show or hide featured images, and choose whether they link to the post.
• Customize post titles, excerpts, and read more links.
• Display post metadata such as date, author, and categories, with control over visibility and styling.

Responsive and Performance-Focused

All layouts are optimized for mobile and desktop devices. The plugin is built to load efficiently and minimize impact on performance.

Key Features – Free Version

Everything you need to build a professional and modern content display:

• Template Library: Import ready-made post layouts in one click from the editor toolbar, with search (title, category, keyword), category and Free/Pro filters with live counts, live scrolling previews, and a Favorites tab to save the layouts you use most.
• Core Layouts: Choose from professional Grid, Masonry, Slider, Ticker and News Ticker views.
• Accordion Layout: Display posts as collapsible panels with Classic and Card Stack themes, single open mode, expand icon controls, and header styling.
• Magazine 1 Layout: Front-page editorial look – a large hero post beside a scrollable sidebar list, with its own sidebar list layout and a responsive hero min-height.
• Magazine 2 Layout: A full-width hero post above a responsive grid of the remaining posts, with its own grid sub-layout and a responsive hero min-height.
• Flexible Sub-layouts: Optimize displays with Default, Left/Right Image, Overlay Content, Overlay Half Content , and Title-Meta layouts.
• Slider Options: Customize the slider layout with loop, touch move, autoplay, speed, effect, pagination and navigation with the customization and styling.
• Dynamic Post Query: Advanced filtering by post type (posts, pages, or any custom post type), posts per page, categories, tags , authors, taxonomy relation (AND/OR), and post order.
• Post Precision: Use Post Offset to skip the first “N” posts, target exact content with Include Posts and Exclude Posts by ID, or Exclude Sticky Posts from any query.
• Pagination & AJAX: Numbered Pagination , prev/next Navigation , and a Load More button with a custom label – with alignment, colors, active/hover colors, padding, spacing, and back-to-top on page change.
• Element Visibility: Full control to show or hide thumbnails, titles, metadata, excerpts, and read more buttons.
• Sortable Elements: Drag and drop to rearrange the Post Title, Metadata, and Excerpt inside each post.
• Feature Image Settings: Pick the image size , set a fallback image , toggle link, set dimensions (Width/Height), adjust image fitting (Cover/Contain), apply a normal or hover grayscale filter, and animate the corner radius on hover.
• Title Control: Customize post title with enable link, select tag, word/character limit , typography, alignment, colors, and margin.
• Flexible Metadata: Show or hide the post author (with an optional author link ), date (with a “Time Ago” display), categories with position, reading time with a custom label, comment counts, and the post view count – with a custom separator , typography, different colors and margin.
• Meta Separator Color: Give the character between meta items its own color.
• Category Badge Styling: Set the padding, border radius and margin of the on-image category badge.
• Dynamic Excerpt: Display excerpt from post excerpt or content with limit, alignment, typography, colors, and margin.
• Customized Read More: Show Read More button with custom label and icon with link tab and style for alignment, typography, padding, colors, borders, shadows and hover animation.
• Interactive Container Design: Alignment, backgrounds, borders, and shadows with padding support for article blocks and content areas.
• Shortcode Support: Seamlessly display post blocks anywhere on your site using shortcodes.
• Responsive Ready: Fully optimized for a perfect experience on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.
• Developer Friendly: Built with clean code following the best WordPress developmental standards.

Pro Version – Unlock Premium Power

Advanced Post Block Pro adds precision filtering, layout enhancements, and deeper content control for high-performing websites.

What’s Included in Pro:

• Premium Templates: Unlock the full Template Library – import Pro-only, professionally designed post layouts in one click.
• Exclusive Layouts: Unlock the Grid 1 and Timeline layouts, plus the List Left/Right Even-Odd and Overlay Content Box sub-layouts.
• Timeline Layout: Lay posts out as a dated sequence, Vertical or Horizontal , with control over max width, orientation, line width, dot style, dot position and dot size, a date shown Inline , in the Gutter or on a Badge , and Year/Month grouping.
• Accordion Pro: Unlock the With Thumbnail , Numbered FAQ , Split Panel , and Minimal Lines themes, multiple open panels, custom animation speed, 12 extra indicator icon sets, and Lift/Zoom hover animations.
• Ticker Options: Set the ticker direction, speed, interval, height, visible post count, and pause on mouse hover.
• News Ticker Options: Set the news ticker label, theme, type, direction, speed, animation, and pause on mouse hover.
• Query Presets: Instant query configurations for Popular , Random , Sticky , Most Comments , Related Posts , and more.
• Deeper Filtering: Filter by Custom Taxonomies , run a Search Query , and order by Post ID , Name (Slug) , Comment Count , or Include Posts order.
• Post Precision: Exclude the current post from any query.
• More Load More Types: Infinite Scroll with a trigger offset, spinner and loading label.
• Feature Image: Lazy load images and apply the Scale Up hover animation.
• Title Ellipsis: Append a trailing ellipsis to titles trimmed by the word/character limit.
• Excerpt Control: Pull the excerpt from the Yoast SEO , Rank Math , or All in One SEO meta description, and toggle its trailing ellipsis.
• Advanced Read More: 14 extra arrow icons, an icon gap and left/right icon position, an Auto/Bottom button position, and a pulse hover animation.
• Metadata Customization: Set the gap between meta items, drag-and-drop reorder them, and set the meta alignment.
• Meta Author: Set a custom author icon.
• Meta Date: Preset or custom date formats and a custom date icon.
• Meta Category: Top Left, Top Right and Bottom Right on-image positions, plus a custom category icon.
• Custom Taxonomies: Show custom taxonomy terms in the meta row, each with its own custom icon.
• Meta Reading Time: Show the reading time with seconds , and replace the default reading time icon with your own.
• Meta Comment Icon: Replace the default comment icon with your own.
• Post View Count: Replace the default view count icon with your own.
• Custom Query Hook: Leverage the apb_query filter for deep developer-level control.

How to Use – Step-by-Step Setup

Getting started is fast and beginner-friendly.

You can set up your first post grid in just a few clicks.

Step-by-Step Setup:

• Install and activate the Advanced Post Block plugin.
• Open a post or page in the Gutenberg editor.
• Click the + icon.
• Find the block called Advanced Post Block under the “Advanced Post Block” category.
• Choose your layout style, post type, and configure display settings.
• Save and publish.
• That’s it!

Gutenberg Block Support Using the Block Editor? You’re covered.

• Easily find the Advanced Post Block in the Gutenberg block library.
• Drag and drop to add dynamic post lists to any page o