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Documentation of Post Grid for Gutenberg and Elementor plugins

By postmagthemes — every control explained, plus a full FAQ. Covers both the free and Pro versions, with Pro-only content clearly marked.

Complete User Guide

Demo is here

Contents

  • 1. Getting Started
  • 2. Choosing a Design
  • 3. Query Controls
  • 4. Content Controls
  • 5. Meta Info Controls
  • 6. Main Title Controls
  • 7. Layout Controls
  • 8. Style Controls
  • 9. Typography Controls
  • 10. Resetting Everything
  • 11. The Live Front-End Filters
  • 12. SEO: Structured Data
  • 13. View Tracking
  • 14. The Admin Area
  • 15. Extending the Plugin (Developers)
  • 16. Pro Version Features
  • 17. Frequently Asked Questions

 PRO   marks anything exclusive to the Pro version, wherever it appears in this guide — both inline next to individual controls, and as its own dedicated section (16).

1. Getting Started

This plugin adds a post grid to your site two ways — as a Gutenberg block, or as an Elementor widget. Both produce identical output, since they share the exact same underlying rendering code; use whichever page builder you’re already working in.

In Gutenberg

  • Open the block editor on any page or post.
  • Click the + (Add block) icon and search for “Post Grid.”
  • Insert the block. It renders immediately with sensible defaults — Design 1, 4 posts, all categories.
  • Configure it using the panels in the right-hand sidebar (covered section by section below).

In Elementor

  • Open a page with Elementor.
  • In the widget panel, find “Post Grid” under the Postmagthemes category (or search for it).
  • Drag it onto the page.
  • Configure it using the sections in the left-hand panel (covered section by section below).

Every setting described in this guide exists in both builders, laid out the same way — the same panels/sections, in the same order, with the same defaults.

2. Choosing a Design

The “Design” control (top of the Query panel/section) is the first choice to make — it changes which other controls are even available, since each design has some settings unique to it.

Design 1 — Standard Grid

Design 1 post grid

A responsive grid, 2–6 columns, any number of posts.

The general-purpose choice. A clean grid of cards, column count and post count both configurable. Best for a straightforward “more posts” section.

Design 2 — Golden-Ratio Featured

One featured post (38.2%) beside a 2×2 grid of smaller posts (61.8%) — always 5 total.

A magazine-style featured layout, always exactly 5 posts: one large and four small. Good for a homepage “featured stories” block.

Design 3 — Stacked Rows

Design 3 post grid

Image + content at the golden ratio per row, with an optional related-posts strip.

Each post is its own row — image and content side by side. Includes an automatic related-posts strip under each row. Good for a more editorial, list-style page.

3. Query Controls

Everything that decides which posts appear, and in what order.

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Sidebar → Query panel   Elementor: Left panel → Query section

  • Design — Design 1, 2, or 3 (see Section 2).
  • Show sort filter — Shows/hides the live front-end “Most recent / Most commented” dropdown (see Section 11).  Default: on.
  • Show category filter — Shows/hides the live front-end category dropdown (see Section 11).  Default: on.
  • Columns — Design 1 only. Number of columns in the grid, 2–6.  Default: 2.
  • Number of posts — Design 1: how many posts to show. Design 3: same idea, its own separate setting.  Default: 4 (Design 1), 3 (Design 3).
  • Alternate image side — Design 3 only. When on, odd rows show the image on the left and even rows on the right, alternating down the page. When off, every row is image-left.  Default: off.
  •  PRO   Post type — Query any registered post type — not just regular blog posts. The free version is fixed to Posts; this replaces that restriction with a dropdown of every post type your site actually has (internal WordPress/Elementor post types are automatically excluded from the list).  Default: Posts.
  •  PRO   Taxonomy — Which taxonomy to filter by, from whichever are actually registered for the selected Post type above. This is what “Category” becomes in the Pro version — the same idea, generalized beyond just the Category taxonomy.  Default: Category.
  • Category — Free version only (Pro replaces this with the Taxonomy control above). Restrict the grid to one category, or leave on “All categories.” The dropdown shows each category’s post count next to its name, e.g. “Business (12).”  Default: All categories.
  • Author — Restrict the grid to one author, or leave on “All authors.”
  • Order by — Date or Comment count. Always shows newest/most-commented first — there’s no separate ascending/descending choice.
  • Specific posts — Search and pick exact posts by title. When any are picked, they completely replace the Category/Author/Order settings above — exactly the posts you chose, in the order you chose them, nothing else.
  • Exclude posts — The inverse of Specific posts — pick posts to remove from whatever the Category/Author/Order query would otherwise return. Has no effect while Specific posts is in use, since there’s nothing left to exclude from an exact list.

4. Content Controls

What appears inside each card, beyond the title itself (which always shows).

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Sidebar → Content panel   Elementor: Left panel → Content section

  • Show featured image — Shows/hides each post’s featured image.  Default: on.
  •  PRO   Use post format styling — When on, posts using the Video, Audio, Gallery, or Quote post format show a format-specific display instead of a plain image (see Section 16). Turn it off to show every post’s regular featured image whatever its format. Only shown when “Show featured image” is on.  Default: on.
  • Show excerpt — Shows/hides a short excerpt under the title.  Default: on.
  • Excerpt length — Only shown when excerpt is on. Maximum words before it’s cut off with an ellipsis.  Default: 20 words.
  • Show tags — Shows/hides each post’s tags.  Default: off.
  • Show category badge — Shows/hides the colored category label on each card. Colors are assigned automatically and consistently per category — nothing to configure.
  • Show “Read more” button — Shows/hides a button/link at the bottom of each card.  Default: on.
  • Button text — Only shown when the Read More button is on. The text on the button.  Default: “Read More”.
  • Add structured data (SEO) — Outputs schema.org JSON-LD for the posts shown, for richer search-engine results (see Section 12).  Default: on.
  •  PRO   Show social share buttons — Shows/hides a row of share buttons on each card, right after the meta info (see Section 16).  Default: on.
  •  PRO   Platforms — Only shown when social share buttons are on. Choose which of the 10 platforms appear: Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Reddit, Telegram, Tumblr, Email, and Copy link.  Default: Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Pinterest.
  •  PRO   Enable animations — Turns six effects on or off together: image zoom and card lift on hover, social icon hover colors, the gallery slider crossfade, cards fading in as you scroll, and a smooth transition when filtering (see Section 16).  Default: on.

5. Meta Info Controls

The small line of icons/details under each post’s content — always in this order, and not reorderable, since these render in a fixed position after everything else on the card.

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Sidebar → Meta info panel   Elementor: Left panel → Meta info section

  • Show author — Shows/hides a small avatar and the author’s name, linked to their author archive. Always the first item in meta info when on.  Default: on.
  • Show date — Shows/hides the publish date, linked to that day’s archive.  Default: on.
  • Show comments — Shows/hides the comment count, linked to the comments section.  Default: on.
  • Show views — Shows/hides a view count (see Section 13 for how this is actually tracked).  Default: on.
  • Show reading time — Shows/hides an estimated reading time, based on a 200-words-per-minute average.  Default: on.
  •  PRO   Show word count — Shows/hides the post’s total word count.
  •  PRO   Show image count — Shows/hides how many images are in the post’s content.
  •  PRO   Show video count — Shows/hides how many videos are in the post’s content.
  •  PRO   Show post age — Shows/hides a relative time like “2 hours ago,” alongside the regular date — not instead of it.  Default: on.

6. Main Title Controls

An optional heading shown above the whole grid — separate from each post’s own title.

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Sidebar → Content panel (bottom)   Elementor: Left panel → Main title section

  • Show main title — Turns the section heading on or off.  Default: off.
  • Main title text — Only shown when the main title is on. The heading text itself.
  • Main title tag — Only shown when the main title is on. Which HTML heading level to use (H1–H6).  Default: H2.

7. Layout Controls

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Sidebar → Layout panel   Elementor: Left panel → Layout section

  • Title tag — Which HTML heading level each post’s own title uses (H1–H4).  Default: H3.
  • Content alignment — Left, center, or right text alignment for each card’s content.  Default: Left.
  • Card element order — Drag rows to change the order image, category badge, title, excerpt, and tags appear in each card. Meta info and the Read More button always render last, in that order — not reorderable, by design.  Default: image, badge, title, excerpt, tags.
  • Card element order (Design 3) — Design 3 has its own separate version of this control — the same idea, but without “image” as an option at all, since Design 3’s image is always its own fixed column (left or right, per Alternate image side), never a position within the reorderable content.  Default: badge, title, excerpt, tags.
  • Related post title — Design 3 only. The section label shown above each row’s related-posts strip. Leave empty to hide just the label — the related posts themselves still show.  Default: “Related Posts”.
  • Show related post image — Design 3 only. Shows/hides the square thumbnail on each related post.  Default: on.
  • Show related post title — Design 3 only. Shows/hides the title on each related post.  Default: on.

8. Style Controls

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Sidebar → Style panel   Elementor: Left panel → Style section

Spacing & radius

  • Column margin — Horizontal gap between cards.  Default: 15px.
  • Row margin — Vertical gap between rows.  Default: 15px.
  • Image corner radius — Roundedness of each featured image’s corners.  Default: 10px.
  • Card corner radius (top / bottom) — Roundedness of each card’s own corners, top and bottom set independently.  Default: 10px / 10px.

Box shadow

  • Horizontal offset — How far the shadow shifts left/right.  Default: 0px.
  • Vertical offset — How far the shadow shifts up/down.  Default: 2px.
  • Blur — How soft the shadow’s edge is.  Default: 12px.
  • Spread — How much the shadow grows beyond the card’s edge.  Default: 0px.
  • Color — Shadow color.  Default: #000000.
  • Opacity — Shadow strength, 0 (invisible) to 1 (solid).  Default: 0.09.
  • Inset — When on, the shadow sits inside the card’s edge instead of outside it.  Default: off.

Border

  • Width — Card border thickness. 0 means no visible border regardless of style/color.  Default: 0px.
  • Style — Solid, dashed, or dotted.  Default: Solid.
  • Color — Border color.  Default: Grey.

9. Typography Controls

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Sidebar → Typography panel   Elementor: Left panel → Typography section

 PRO  In the Pro version Typography is grouped per element: Title, Category tag, Meta info, and Excerpt. In Gutenberg each element is a collapsible sub-panel inside the Typography panel; in Elementor each is a popover in the Typography section. The controls are identical in both builders. Title font size and the two size percentages below exist in the free version too; everything else in this section is Pro.

Font source  PRO

  • Font source — One switch at the top of Typography that applies to all four elements: System fonts or Google Fonts. Each element’s Font family dropdown then shows the matching list. The two sources remember their own selections, so switching back and forth never loses a choice.  Default: System fonts.

Title

  • Title font size — Font size for each post’s own title — the base size every other title-size setting below scales from.  Default: 20px.
  • Column B title size (% of Column A) — Design 2 only. Design 2’s four smaller posts (Column B) get their title size as a percentage of the main Title font size above, rather than a separate fixed number — e.g. 75% of a 20px title is 15px automatically.  Default: 75%.
  • Related post title size (% of parent) — Design 3 only. Same idea — related-post titles are a percentage of the row’s own title size, calculated automatically.  Default: 80%.

Related post titles also automatically use one heading level below the parent row’s own title tag (an H3 row title makes related titles H4, and so on) — this part isn’t a separate setting, it just always follows the row title’s level.

  •  PRO   Font family — The font for each post’s title. System fonts offers Theme Default, System UI, Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman, Verdana, Trebuchet MS, and Courier New. Google Fonts offers a curated list of 39 families (see below).  Default: Theme Default.
  •  PRO   Letter spacing (px) — Space between letters, from −5 to 20 in steps of 0.1. Leave it empty to keep the default; 0 means no extra spacing.  Default: empty (follows the theme).
  •  PRO   Line height — A unitless multiplier from 0.5 to 4, e.g. 1.5. Leave it empty to keep the default.  Default: empty (1.4, or 1.3 in Design 2’s smaller cards).
  •  PRO   Font weight — Default, or 100 (Thin) through 900 (Black).  Default: the theme’s heading weight.

The Title’s font family, letter spacing, line height, and weight apply to every title-like text in the grid — card titles, the main section title (Section 6), related-post titles, and the “Related Posts” label — each of which keeps its own default look until you change a value.

Category tag  PRO

  •  PRO   Font family — Same System / Google lists as Title.  Default: Theme Default.
  •  PRO   Font size (px) — 0 keeps the default size.  Default: 12px.
  •  PRO   Letter spacing (px) — From −5 to 20. Leave empty to keep the default; 0 means no extra spacing.  Default: 0.02em.
  •  PRO   Line height — Unitless multiplier, 0.5 to 4. Leave empty to keep the default.  Default: empty (follows the theme).
  •  PRO   Font weight — Default, or 100 (Thin) through 900 (Black).  Default: 500 (Medium).

Meta info  PRO

  •  PRO   Font family — Same System / Google lists as Title. Applies to the whole author / date / comments / views / reading time row.  Default: Theme Default.
  •  PRO   Font size (px) — 0 keeps the default size.  Default: 12px.
  •  PRO   Letter spacing (px) — From −5 to 20. Leave empty to keep the default; 0 means no extra spacing.  Default: 1px.
  •  PRO   Line height — Unitless multiplier, 0.5 to 4. Leave empty to keep the default.  Default: 1.
  •  PRO   Font weight — Default, or 100 (Thin) through 900 (Black).  Default: 400 (Regular).

Excerpt  PRO

  •  PRO   Font family — Same System / Google lists as Title.  Default: Theme Default.
  •  PRO   Font size (px) — 0 keeps the default size.  Default: 14px.
  •  PRO   Letter spacing (px) — From −5 to 20. Leave empty to keep the default; 0 means no extra spacing.  Default: empty (follows the theme).
  •  PRO   Line height — Unitless multiplier, 0.5 to 4. Leave empty to keep the default.  Default: 1.6.
  •  PRO   Font weight — Default, or 100 (Thin) through 900 (Black).  Default: the theme’s body weight.

Every control above starts empty (or 0 for sizes) and, left alone, leaves your cards looking exactly as they did before these controls existed. Google Fonts are loaded from Google’s servers only when the Google Fonts source is selected, in Regular (400) and Bold (700) — other weights chosen on a Google font are approximated by the browser. The default System fonts source makes no external requests.

10. Resetting Everything

Where to find it — Gutenberg: Bottom of the Typography panel   Elementor: Its own “Reset” section, right after Typography

A “Reset all settings” / “Reset to default” button resets every control covered in Sections 3–9 back to its default value in one click — Query, Content, Meta info, Layout, Style, and Typography all at once. A confirmation prompt appears first, since this can’t be undone. In Elementor, remember to click Update/Publish afterward to actually save the reset.

 PRO  In the Pro version the Reset button has its own “Reset” panel (Gutenberg) or section (Elementor) right after Typography, and it also resets every typography control from Section 9.

11. The Live Front-End Filters

Two dropdowns can appear directly above the grid on the published page — not in the editor, on the actual live site — letting visitors change what’s shown without a page reload:

  • A category dropdown (all categories, including post counts).
  • A “Most recent / Most commented” sort dropdown.

Both are controlled by the “Show sort filter” and “Show category filter” toggles in the Query panel/section (Section 3), and each can be turned off independently. Both are automatically hidden whenever Specific posts is in use, since there’s no sortable/filterable query to represent at that point — it’s an exact, hand-picked list.

Changing either dropdown sends a quick request in the background and swaps in just the new set of posts — the rest of the page, including the dropdowns themselves, doesn’t reload. While that request is in flight, the grid briefly shows a shimmering placeholder shaped like whichever design is active, instead of a blank gap.

Switching one dropdown always keeps the other’s current choice — picking a category and then changing the sort order keeps you inside that category, rather than resetting it back to “All.”

 PRO  With “Enable animations” on (Section 4), the swap is a smooth fade rather than an instant change.

12. SEO: Structured Data

When “Add structured data” is on (Section 4), each grid instance outputs a schema.org ItemList block — a machine-readable summary of the posts being shown, aimed at richer search-engine results. Each entry includes the post’s headline, URL, image, publish date, and author.

This is deliberately minimal by design — it’s not meant to duplicate the full, rich article schema that belongs on each post’s own page (that’s an SEO plugin’s job). If your SEO plugin already outputs its own listing-page schema, you can turn this off per grid instance to avoid the two overlapping.

13. View Tracking

“Show views” (Section 5) isn’t just a display toggle — the plugin genuinely counts views itself, with no theme changes required.

  • Counts once per visitor per post per day (a cookie prevents a refresh, or a same-day repeat visit, from counting again).
  • Skips logged-in staff (anyone who can edit posts), so authors/editors checking their own content doesn’t inflate the count.
  • Filters out common bots and crawlers.
  • If a dedicated view-counter plugin is already active and tracking views under one of a few common key names, that count is shown instead — this plugin’s own tracking only takes over as a fallback when nothing else is tracking views.

14. The Admin Area

A “Post Grid” item appears in the main WordPress admin menu, showing postmagthemes’ other WordPress.org plugins and themes.

After the plugin has been active for more than 7 days, a dismissible notice may appear (on any admin page, not just this plugin’s own) asking for a review. “Nope, maybe later” pushes it out rather than dismissing it outright; “I already did” or leaving a review dismisses it for good.

15. Extending the Plugin (Developers)

Five filter hooks are available for themes or other plugins to customize behavior without editing this plugin’s files directly:

  • pmt_post_grid_args — the full settings array, before rendering.
  • pmt_post_grid_query_args — the underlying WP_Query arguments.
  • pmt_post_grid_card_html — a single card’s rendered HTML.
  • pmt_post_grid_category_color — the auto-assigned category badge color.
  • pmt_post_grid_output — the complete rendered grid output.

Full parameter details and usage examples are in the plugin’s readme.txt, under “Developer hooks.”

 PRO  The Pro version has its own hooks, prefixed pmtpofob_post_grid_pro_, so they never interfere with the free version’s: args, query_args, card_html, category_color, output, and structured_data, plus excluded_post_types and excluded_taxonomies to control which post types and taxonomies are hidden from the Post type and Taxonomy pickers.

16. Pro Version Features  PRO

Everything in Sections 1–15 above applies to both the free and Pro versions — wherever a control is Pro-only, it’s marked with the PRO badge inline (see Sections 3 and 5). This section covers what’s exclusive to Pro beyond those inline controls.

Custom post type & taxonomy support  PRO

Covered inline in Section 3 (Query Controls) — the Post type and Taxonomy controls. Together, they let the grid query any registered post type using any taxonomy registered for it, rather than being fixed to blog posts and categories.

Post-format-aware card images  PRO

When a post uses one of these WordPress post formats, Pro automatically replaces the static featured image with format-appropriate content — no separate control to turn this on, it applies automatically whenever “Show featured image” (Section 4) is on and a post uses one of these formats:

  • Video format — embeds the actual video instead of a thumbnail. Checked in order: a self-hosted video file first, then YouTube or Vimeo as a fallback — an uploaded video is never skipped in favor of a YouTube link.
  • Audio format — a self-hosted audio file first, then SoundCloud or Spotify embeds.
  • Gallery format — a prev/next image slider, when the post’s content has 2 or more images.
  • Quote format — pulls the actual quote text from the post’s content as an overlay, instead of showing an unrelated or missing image.

Extra meta info counters  PRO

Covered inline in Section 5 (Meta Info Controls) — Show word count, Show image count, Show video count, and Show post age.

Extra meta info counters  PRO

Covered inline in Section 5 (Meta Info Controls) — Show word count, Show image count, Show video count, and Show post age.

Typography controls  PRO

Covered inline in Section 9 (Typography Controls) — a Font source switch (System fonts or Google Fonts) plus font family, size, letter spacing, line height, and weight for the Title, Category tag, Meta info, and Excerpt.

  • System fonts: Theme Default, System UI, Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman, Verdana, Trebuchet MS, and Courier New.
  • Google Fonts: a curated list of 39 popular families — 21 sans-serif (e.g. Roboto, Open Sans, Poppins), 11 serif (e.g. Playfair Display, Lora, Merriweather), 4 script/handwriting (Lobster, Pacifico, Caveat, Dancing Script), and 3 monospace (Roboto Mono, Source Code Pro, JetBrains Mono).

Social share buttons  PRO

Covered inline in Section 4 (Show social share buttons and Platforms). A row of share buttons appears on each card right after the meta info, styled to match it: icon-only, with a small share icon leading the row. The row has a fixed position — it isn’t part of the drag-to-reorder list — and does not appear in the related-posts strip. Each button uses the platform’s standard public share link, so no API keys or app registrations are needed. With animations on, each brand icon takes its brand color and grows to 2× on hover.

Animations  PRO

A single “Enable animations” toggle (Section 4, on by default) switches six effects on or off together:

  • Image zoom on card hover.
  • Card lift, with a deeper shadow, on hover.
  • Social icon hover colors and scale.
  • A crossfade between images in the Gallery format slider.
  • Grid entrance: cards fade up as they scroll into view, staggered so long grids don’t leave late cards waiting. Cards stay fully visible if the script is blocked, and the effect is skipped for visitors who prefer reduced motion.
  • A smooth fade when the live category/sort filter swaps in new results (Section 11).

Post format styling toggle  PRO

Covered inline in Section 4 (Use post format styling). Turn it off and every post shows its regular featured image whatever its post format — useful when you use formats only to organize content and don’t want the Video, Audio, Gallery, or Quote treatment above.

Runs alongside the free version  PRO

Pro is a separate plugin with its own namespaced identifiers, so it can be active at the same time as the free version without conflicts: its own block (pmt-pro/post-grid), its own Elementor widget name, and its own CSS classes, scripts, settings, and developer hooks (Section 15). Both versions’ blocks and widgets show up in their builders and can be used on different pages of the same site. Pro also adds a “Post Grid by Postmagthemes” category to the block inserter

17. Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need both Gutenberg and Elementor installed?

No. Use whichever one your site is already built with. If Elementor isn’t active, only the Gutenberg block is available, and vice versa — the plugin doesn’t require both.

Will a grid built in Gutenberg look different from one built in Elementor?

No — both call the exact same underlying rendering code, so with the same settings the output is pixel-identical. This is a deliberate design goal, not a coincidence.

How is “Specific posts” different from “Category”?

Category filters the query (e.g. “show the 4 newest posts in Business”) — which posts appear can change over time as new posts get published. Specific posts is a fixed, hand-picked list of exact posts, in the order you chose them, and it completely overrides Category/Author/Order while any are selected.

Why don’t I see the category or sort dropdown on my page?

Check three things: the corresponding “Show sort filter” / “Show category filter” toggle is on (Section 3), Specific posts isn’t in use (which hides both automatically), and you’re viewing the actual published page rather than the editor preview.

What happens if a Design 3 row has fewer than 4 related posts?

The remaining slots show as an empty placeholder rather than the row looking uneven or short — up to 4 real related posts fill in first, then any leftover spots pad out gracefully. If a post has no category at all, its related-posts strip doesn’t appear.

Does the plugin track post views accurately?

It’s a genuine, real counting mechanism (see Section 13) with real safeguards — bot filtering, once-per-visitor-per-day de-duplication, excluding staff visits — but it’s meant to be a reasonable, at-a-glance number, not analytics-grade precision. For that level of detail, a dedicated analytics tool is the right choice.

I clicked Reset and nothing seems to have changed — what happened?

In Elementor specifically, resetting updates the panel and the live preview, but you still need to click Update/Publish afterward for it to actually save — the reset itself doesn’t auto-save. In Gutenberg, remember to update/publish the page as you normally would after any change.

Does this work with WooCommerce products or Easy Digital Downloads?

Free version: not currently — every query is built specifically for regular blog posts. Pro version: yes, generally — the Post type control (Section 16) can query any registered post type, which includes WooCommerce’s “product” type or EDD’s “download” type if either plugin is active. This isn’t WooCommerce/EDD-specific branded support, just general custom-post-type support that happens to cover them too.

What happens to my data if I delete the plugin?

Deleting it (not just deactivating) removes everything the plugin itself stores — its settings, its view-count tracking, and the short-lived cache behind the live filters. It never touches the actual grids you’ve placed in your pages and posts — that content is yours, and comes right back if the plugin is reinstalled later.

Can I change the plugin’s behavior without editing its files?

Yes — see Section 15. Five filter hooks cover the most common customization points; themes and other plugins can use them directly.

Why does “Column B title size” only appear for Design 2?

Because “Column B” (the four smaller posts) only exists in Design 2’s layout — Design 1 and Design 3 don’t have an equivalent, so the control only shows when it’s actually relevant.

Can visitors filter by tags on the front end, the way they can with categories?

Not currently — the live front-end filters cover category and sort order only.

Can I use Google Fonts?  PRO

Yes, in the Pro version. In the Typography panel/section, set “Font source” to Google Fonts, then choose a font for each element (Title, Category tag, Meta info, Excerpt). The list is a curated set of 39 popular families — it isn’t the full Google Fonts catalog.

Does using Google Fonts affect privacy or page speed?  PRO

Google Fonts are loaded from Google’s servers, and only when the Google Fonts source is selected and a font is actually chosen — visitors’ browsers contact Google to fetch them, which some sites need to mention in their privacy policy. The default System fonts source makes no external requests at all.

I picked a font weight on a Google font but nothing changed — why?  PRO

Google fonts are loaded in Regular (400) and Bold (700) only, to keep each request small and reliable. Other weights (such as 300 or 600) are approximated by the browser using the nearest loaded weight. System fonts have no such limit.

Why did changing the Title font also change other headings?  PRO

The Title settings apply to every title-like text in the grid: card titles, the main section title (Section 6), related-post titles, and the “Related Posts” label. They share one set of controls so the whole grid stays consistent.

What does it mean when a typography control is left empty?  PRO

It keeps that element’s default look. Empty (or 0 for sizes) is the starting state for every new control, and it leaves your cards exactly as they were before. The defaults for each element are listed in Section 9. Setting a letter-spacing of 0 is different from empty — it explicitly means no extra spacing.

Can I run the free and Pro versions at the same time?  PRO

Yes. Pro uses its own block, widget name, CSS classes, and hooks, so the two don’t conflict. Use whichever you prefer on each page.

How do I turn off the hover and scroll animations?  PRO

Switch off “Enable animations” in the Content panel/section. It controls all six effects together (Section 16).

Where can i down load the setup plugins ??

You can download from here.

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