The Post List widget by Atomic Addons shows your posts as a list. The first post is the featured one: a large image with the category, title, a short excerpt and the meta row under it. The posts after it are compact rows with a small thumbnail beside the category, title and meta. It suits sidebars and narrow columns. This guide covers adding the widget, choosing the posts and setting up the list.
Enable the Post List Widget
Post List is a Pro widget and needs Atomic Addons Pro. Switch it on from the plugin dashboard:
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Go to WordPress Dashboard → Atomic Addons.
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Click the Widgets tab.
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Search for Post List. You can also open the Posts / Dynamic category.
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Turn the Post List widget on.
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Click Save Settings.
Add the Post List Widget
Post List works on any page:
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Open the page in Elementor (Edit with Elementor).
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In the widget panel, search for Post List. The widget sits in the Atomic Addons Pro category.
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Drag it into the page and set it up with the controls below.
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Click Publish (or Update).
Layout
Open the widget and go to Content → Layout:
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Item Gap: The space above each row, 16px unless you change it.
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Featured Image Height: The height of the first post's image, 200 to 600px. By default it keeps a 16:9 shape.
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List Image Width: The width of the thumbnails in the rows after the first, 100 to 500px. By default they are 88px wide, 112px on screens 768px and wider.
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Image Position: Left, the default, or Right: which side of the rows the thumbnail sits on. The featured post keeps its image on top.
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Alignment: Left, center or right alignment of the text.
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Image Resolution: Which image size WordPress serves, Medium by default.
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Featured Content Into Image: Lays the first post's text over its image, on a dark gradient, in white. Off by default.
Query
Content → Query decides which posts appear:
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Item Limit: How many posts to show, 1 to 20, 4 by default. With pagination on, it is the number per page.
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Source: Posts, the default, picks from your blog posts with the filters below. The list also has Pages and every other public post type on your site. Manual Selection shows only the posts you search for and pick in Search & Select, of any type. Current Query shows the posts of the page being viewed — a category, tag, author, date or search results page; the editor may not show them until you save and reload. Related shows, on a single post, other posts of the same type by the same author; narrow it down with Include By → Terms, and add Exclude By → Current Post to leave out the post itself.
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Include / Exclude: Include By keeps only posts in the Terms you pick (categories, tags, formats or custom taxonomy terms) or by the Authors you pick. Exclude By leaves out authors, the Current Post, posts you pick with Manual Selection, or terms.
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Offset: Skips this many posts from the start of the list, 0 by default.
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Date: All by default. Or only posts published in the Past Day, Past Week, Past Month, Past Quarter or Past Year, or between a Before and an After date with Custom.
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Order By: Date (the default), Title, ID, Author, Comment Count, Menu Order, Last Modified or Random.
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Order: DESC, the default, puts the newest (or highest) first; ASC reverses it.
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Ignore Sticky Posts: With the Posts source: on by default, so sticky posts take their normal place instead of being pinned to the top.
Only Featured Image Post leaves out posts without a featured image. Query ID is for developers: it gives the query a name that custom code can filter. The section also has a Limit field, but Post List doesn't use it: Item Limit sets the number of posts.
With Current Query the page's own query decides which posts show and in what order, so the filters and order settings are hidden. Item Limit still sets how many appear per page. The Include and Exclude tabs are also hidden with Manual Selection.
Additional Settings
Content → Additional Settings picks what each post shows:
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Title: The post title, linked to the post. On by default.
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Title HTML Tag: The title's markup: H1 to H6, div, span or p. H3 by default.
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Show Text: An excerpt, shown under the featured post only. A post's own excerpt is shown in full; otherwise the widget cuts the post content to the Text Limit, 20 words by default (0 shows the whole content). Ellipsis adds text after a cut excerpt, such as “…”, and Strip Shortcode (on by default) removes shortcodes from it.
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Show Category: The post's categories above the title, each linked to its archive. On by default.
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Show Author: “by” and the author's name in the meta row, linked to their posts. Off by default.
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Show Comments: The number of comments, such as “4 Comments”. Off by default.
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Separator: The character between the meta items, “·” by default.
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Date: The publish date, on by default. Human Different Time shows it as “3 days ago”, and Time Short Format shortens that to “3d ago”. Without the relative date, Show Time adds the time with a clock icon.
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Reading Time: An estimate such as “2 min 30 sec read”, worked out from the post's words and the Reading Speed, 200 words per minute by default.
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Show Pagination: Page numbers under the list, with previous and next arrows. Each page shows Item Limit posts, and the first post of every page is the featured one. Off by default.
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Item Wrapper Link: Makes each whole row a link to the post. As the panel warns, the title link then stops working on its own. Off by default.
Style the Post List
Everything below is on the Style tab. Sections that belong to a feature you turned off are hidden.
- Item — the rows' background, border, border radius, padding and shadow in Normal and Hover states, with a separate Featured Padding for the first post.
- Image — border and border radius. With Featured Content Into Image, Overlay Color sets the gradient over the featured image.
- Title — a hover Style (Underline by default, Middle Underline, Overline or Middle Overline), color, hover color, typography and text shadow, with Featured Color, Featured Hover Color and Featured Typography for the first post.
- Text, Meta and Category — colors, spacing and typography; the category links have Normal and Hover states with background, border, radius and padding, and featured variants of their colors.
- Pagination — alignment, and the page numbers in Normal and Hover states (color, background, border, radius, padding, arrow size, typography), with the space above and between them.
If no post matches the query, the widget shows nothing.
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