Using WP Show Posts | Rugby.Com.Ar

Adding post lists and grids to your Site couldn’t be easier than with the WP Show Posts plugin. Dispatch uses the Free version to display posts on the Front page and in the Sidebars. Of course with a little Flint Skin CSS treatment.

Head off to Dashboard > WP Show Posts > All Lists. Within are six lists:

Align
Standard
Sidebar
Header
Simple
Simple Sidebar

Each of them have very particular settings required to match the demo content you see here. Changing those settings may affect the way the post is displayed, and not necessarily for the better. So please work on a duplicate or make a note before changing.

Note: the name of the List has no relevance to the different styles displayed.

General ( and important ) information

Before we go into the detail let’s cover some basic and very important information.

Advanced Settings

For the purpose of the demo content a couple of the Lists are using Advanced Settings. First off the Standard List is using Ascending Order (Default: Descending). Secondly the Simple List is using Offset, so it omits the first 4 posts. You may want to put these back to default if you’re not intending to replace them.

Duplicating WP Show Posts List

So we have four lists, and we want to make a new Standard list with a different category. The easiest way is to use one of the Duplicate Post plugins in the WordPress repository. Simple hey. And it works for all post types including GP Elements. Awesome. Note: When making a duplicate you are generally given two options. Clone and New Draft. I advise using the New Draft as some people have reported issues when using Clone.

List: Standard

This is the standard WP Show Post list that has the same custom styling applied to the GP Blog:

En abril vuelve la acción para los jugadores M18 con una nueva edición del Campeonato Sudamericano que se realizará en La Rioja. Argentina, con dos equipos, Uruguay y Chile participarán…

Las Yaguaretés tienen plantel confirmado para la última etapa del Challenger Series, que se disputará en Cracovia (Polonia) el próximo 11 y 12 de abril y definirá a los primeros…

Los Pumas 7s vencieron 12 a 7 a Francia, último campeón olímpico, ganaron por primera vez en su historia el Seven de Hong Kong, quinta etapa del Circuito Mundial, alcanzando…

En el Centro de Alto Rendimiento de Rugby de Santiago de Chile, donde Selknam se ha hecho muy fuerte de local, Pampas ganó, prolongó su invicto y escaló a la…

Los Pumas regresarán a Salta para cerrar la ventana de julio ante Uruguay y tienen confirmados día y sede para todos sus compromisos de la temporada 2025. La décima presentación…

Tras 3 derrotas consecutivas Tarucas volvió al triunfo y lo hizo nada menos que en el clásico ante Dogos como visitante, para meterse de lleno en la lucha por entrar…

Alex Wyllie, histórico jugador y entrenador de los All Blacks, además de haber dirigido a Los Pumas en el histórico Mundial de 1999, murió en Nueva Zelanda a los 80…

Banco Mendoza, Sporting de Mar del Plata y Paraná Rowing fueron los únicos equipos que pudieron ganar como visitantes en la primera fecha del Torneo del Interior B. Los mendocinos…

Gimnasia y Esgrima de Rosario, Estudiantes de Paraná y Córdoba Athletic son los únicos 3 equipos que ganaron sus dos primeros partidos en el Torneo del Interior A. GER le…

Tras la concentración en Casa Pumas y con un cambio respecto al plantel que fue campeón en Vancouver, Los Pumas 7s confirmaron el plantel para disputar las últimas dos etapas…

This is how the list is displayed within the Content area just by adding the WP Show Post Shortcode. Here follows the basic styling changes that have been made.

Content Wrap (WPSP Only)

Using a custom Hook Element the Post article content is now wrapped within a DIV container. This container carries a class of wpsp-content-wrap for styling. This wrap is present on all WP Show Posts that are output inside Dispatch.

Featured Image

The featured image has a fixed height to match the layout. This is achieved using this CSS:


.generate-columns-container article .inside-article img,  .wp-show-posts-image img {
    height: 180px;
    width: 100%;
    -o-object-fit: cover !important;
    object-fit: cover !important;
}

You can edit the height property to suit, or remove the CSS it entirely if you want to use your own sizes.

Meta above title

This is achieved using a flex box on the Entry Header. Again this applied to the GP Blog:


.generate-columns-container article .entry-header, .wp-show-posts-entry-header {
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: flex;
    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
    -webkit-box-direction: reverse;
    -ms-flex-direction: column-reverse;
    flex-direction: column-reverse;
}

Entry Title forced to 2 lines

The entry title always displays a minimum and maximum of 2 lines. This mantains the across row alignment. Again this is applied to GP Blog. The ex unit is used to define the number of lines visible. The lines are set by defining the line-height and setting the height to as many mutiples as you require lines. e.g up the height to 7.5ex will create three lines.


.generate-columns-container article .entry-header .entry-title, .wp-show-posts article .wp-show-posts-entry-title {
    line-height: 2.5ex;
    height: 5ex;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

List: Align

Designed for a single column list this displays the content the image to the left and content to the right. This is subtly different to just resizing the image in the WP Show Posts list settings and aligning it left. Thanks to the Content Wrap we added (above) the content will never wrap around the image. On mobile it just stacks.

To add one of these your posts requires a little markup. And is done like so:

<div class="wpsp-align">shortcode_goes_here</div>