AnWP Post Grid and Post Carousel Slider for Elementor icon

AnWP Post Grid and Post Carousel Slider for Elementor

AnWP Post Grid and Post Carousel Slider for Elementor is a WordPress plugin with the following stats:

  • #3,732 Global Rank
  • 20K+ active installs
  • 4.9/5 84 ratings
  • Since 2020 6 years active

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71.7
Popularity 40% 20K+ active installs
90.7
Reputation 35% 4.9★ from 84 ratings
36.3
Freshness 25% Updated 2 years ago

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About AnWP Post Grid and Post Carousel Slider for Elementor

Easily create awesome post grids and post carousel sliders. Different widget types, powerful filters, "load more" button and many customizab …

Easily create awesome post grids. Different widget types, powerful filters, “load more” and many customizable options.

The plugin adds 7 new widgets to the Elementor Page Builder: Simple Grid, Light Grid, Classic Grid, Simple Slider, Hero Block and Classic Slider.

BASIC FEATURES

✅ 5 grid and 2 slider widget types
✅ powerful filters (by category, by tag, by author, by post id, by post format, most commented, latest, oldest and others)
✅ pagination and “load more” button in post grid
✅ category color option
✅ many customizable options
✅ fully responsive and mobile friendly (custom number of grid columns for desktop, tablet and mobile)
✅ works with most themes out of the box
✅ template system (ability to override output layouts in your theme)
✅ RTL support

LINKS AND DOCUMENTATION

Demo Site
Online Documentation & Community Portal
Changelog

Premium Demo

PREMIUM FEATURES

🔶 Parallax Grid Widget (NEW!)
🔶 Simple Ratio Grid Widget (NEW!)
🔶 Scale Grid Widget
🔶 News Ticker Widget
🔶 Hero Slider Widget
🔶 Mosaic Slider Widget
🔶 Card Slider Widget
🔶 Custom Taxonomy support (NEW!)
🔶 Advanced Pagination
🔶 Taxonomy Redirects
🔶 Header Category Filter
🔶 Widget Blocks

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The plugin requires

PHP version 5.6 or greater
WordPress 4.7 or greater
Elementor

Minimum Requirements

  • PHP version 5.6 or greater (PHP 7.0 or greater is recommended)
  • WordPress 4.7+

Installation

  1. Go to Plugins >> Add new
  2. Type “AnWP Post Grid for Elementor” in Search Plugins box.
  3. Click Install Now to install the “AnWP Post Grid for Elementor”.
  4. If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it.
  5. Install required Elementor plugin. Elementor

Screenshots

Simple Grid Layout

Simple Grid Layout

Light Grid Layout

Light Grid Layout

Classic Grid Layout

Classic Grid Layout

Query Options

Query Options

Style Options

Style Options

Frequently Asked Questions

Will “AnWP Post Grid for Elementor” plugin work with my theme?

Yes! The plugin works with most themes out of the box. If you have any CSS styling issues feel free to ask for help.

How to disable Elementor column gap

Click on “Edit Sections” icon. Then set “Columns Gap” option to “No Gap”.

Ratings & Reviews

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Changelog

1.3.3 – 2025-01-09

  • added: option to change Category Text color used in AnWP Grid widget

1.3.2 – 2024-12-17

  • fixed: slider problem in Elementor 3.26

1.3.1 – 2024-12-17

  • fixed: Schemes\Typography error in Elementor 3.26

1.3.0 – 2024-05-16

  • changed: increased the minimal Elementor version to 3.5.0
  • added: new option “Border” (style, color, width) in all widgets
  • added: “Show Author” option in Classic Grid & Classic Slider

1.2.1 – 2024-02-12

  • fixed: Light Grid image has incorrect proportions in some situations
  • fixed: removed some deprecation code

1.2.0 – 2023-06-30

  • added: excerpt Typography controls in “Classic Grid” and “Classic Slider”
  • fixed: some slides are not visible (CSS conflict with Elementor Pro)

1.1.0 – 2023-03-12

  • added: support for Swiper v8.4 (Experiments and Features)
  • added: sort by Title option
  • improved: minor styles improvements

1.0.0 – 2022-11-06

  • fixed: slider arrows not visible on “Inline Font Icons” experimental feature active
  • fixed: category color picker doesn’t work in WP6.1
  • minor improvements

0.9.1 – 2022-08-16

  • minor improvements

0.9.0 – 2022-04-03

  • removed: IE support (CSS styles)
  • added: option “Image Rendering”. Since v0.9.0 tag is used (better support for image lazy load plugins)
  • added: new widget “Flex Slider” (with initial image aspect ratio)
  • added: new option “Continuous loop mode” in “Simple Slider” and “Classic Slider”
  • added: possibility to sort by latest and oldest modified date
  • added: Custom Post Type support

0.8.7 – 2022-03-15

  • fixed: category filter disappears with installed Elementor Pro 3.6
  • fixed: Swiper slider conflict with some plugins

0.8.6 – 2021-12-17

  • fixed: Slider doesn’t work with active “Improve Asset Loading” in Elementor v3.5

0.8.5 – 2021-10-19

  • fixed: rendering author name
  • added: Category ordering in Post Card
  • added: option to Enable Mutation Observer. Use it to fix slider rendering in hidden areas on initialization (e.g.: tabs)
  • fixed: not working Post Card Height (px) for mobile and tablet with “Load More” and “Pagination”
  • added: new excerpt options (number of words, allow HTML, excerpt source) in Classic Blog, Classic Grid, and Classic Slider

0.8.4 – 2021-07-15

  • added: related posts option in Query
  • added: Hero Block fallback query option (when posts less than 5)

0.8.3 – 2021-05-05

  • added: new special IDs Selector for posts, categories, tags, authors
  • added: possibility to set custom Post Card Height for mobile, tablet, and desktop
  • added: new “Exclude by Author” argument in Query section
  • added: new option to open links on new tab (“AnWP Post Grid” >> “Settings”)

0.8.2 – 2021-03-26

  • added: ‘Category Text Color’ option in Simple Slider, Simple Grid and Hero Block
  • added: ‘Post Title Color’ and ‘Post Meta Color’ options in Light Grid
  • added: ‘Category Text Color’, ‘Post Excerpt Text Color’, and ‘Post Meta Text Color’ options in Classic Grid, Classic Slider, and Classic Blog

0.8.1 – 2021-03-06

  • fixed: saving plugin settings in some situation

0.8.0 – 2021-03-06

  • added: new option “Default Featured Image” in “AnWP Post Grid” >> “Settings”
  • added: custom “Post Icons” option in “AnWP Post Grid” >> “Settings”
  • fixed: Swiper (slider) is loaded properly when Elementor’s “Improved Asset Loading” is set to Active
  • improved: prefixed grid CSS classes to prevent conflicts with some themes
  • removed: default video and gallery post format icons. Use more powerful new “Post Icons” options.

0.7.1 – 2020-12-13

  • added: Settings: category color picker option to set initial color
  • added: Category limit option in all widgets (possibility to show more than one category)

0.7.0 – 2020-11-15

  • minor fixes
  • introduced premium version

0.6.5 – 2020-10-28

  • added: option to choose card hover effect (darken & scale or only darken) in “Hero Block”, “Classic Grid”, “Simple Grid”, “Light Grid” (section “Styles & Layout”)
  • fixed: category background color is not applied in “Hero Block”, “Simple Slider”, “Classic Slider”
  • fixed: incorrect vertical-align of the slider arrows in “Simple Slider” in some cases

0.6.4 – 2020-10-16

  • added: pagination in “Classic Grid”, “Classic Blog”, “Simple Grid” and “Light Grid”
  • added: a new option “Exclude by Category” in posts query

0.6.3 – 2020-08-18

  • added new options in Classic Blog: post title color, post meta vertical margin, post meta background color, post image width (1/2 or 1/3)
  • added new options in Classic Grid and Classic Slider: post title color, text align, post meta vertical margin, post meta background color, “read more” button

0.6.2 – 2020-07-03

  • added new Classic Blog widget
  • added widget header option to the most widgets

0.6.1 – 2020-05-29

  • added new Hero Block widget

0.6.0 – 2020-05-20

  • added 2 post carousel sliders

0.5.2 – 2020-05-03

  • added “load more” button

0.5.1 – 2020-04-14

  • fixed performance problem on sites with large amount of posts

0.5.0 – 2020-04-14

  • Initial public release

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