Advanced Post Block – Display Your Posts Exactly How You Want
Turn your posts, pages, and custom post types into beautiful grids, sliders, and magazine layouts – with powerful filters and zero code.
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Why Advanced Post Block?
The default WordPress post list is plain. Advanced Post Block is a Gutenberg block that displays posts, pages, and custom post types in grid, list, masonry, slider, ticker, and news-style layouts – perfect for blogs, magazines, and content-heavy websites. Flexible query controls let you filter by category, tag, author, keyword, or custom taxonomy, and query presets speed up common setups.
Modern browsing features are built in: AJAX-based post loading, pagination, load more, and infinite scroll let visitors explore content without page reloads, while post view tracking lets you sort by popularity and surface trending content. A built-in Template Library lets you skip setup entirely – import ready-made, professionally designed post layouts in one click straight from the editor toolbar.
Every element is under your control: show or hide featured images, titles, metadata, excerpts, and read more links, then style typography, colors, and spacing to match your theme. All layouts are responsive and built for performance.
Free Features
- Template Library: Import ready-made post layouts in one click from the editor toolbar, with search, category and Free/Pro filters, live previews, and a Favorites tab.
- Core Layouts: Choose from professional Grid, Masonry, Slider, Ticker, and News Ticker views.
- Flexible Sub-layouts: Optimize displays with Default, Left/Right Image, Overlay, and Title-Meta layouts.
- Slider Options: Customize loop, touch move, autoplay, speed, effect, pagination, and navigation.
- Dynamic Post Query: Advanced filtering by post type, posts per page, categories, authors, taxonomy relation (AND/OR), post order, and more.
- Element Visibility: Full control to show or hide thumbnails, titles, metadata, excerpts, and read more buttons.
- Featured Image Settings: Toggle link, set dimensions, and adjust image fitting (Cover/Contain) for a polished look.
- Title Control: Customize post titles with link, tag selection, typography, alignment, colors, and margin.
- Flexible Metadata: Show or hide post author, date, categories, and comment counts with full styling control.
- Dynamic Excerpt: Display the excerpt from post excerpt or content with limit, alignment, typography, and colors.
- Customized Read More: Custom label and icon with styling for typography, padding, colors, borders, shadows, and hover animation.
- Interactive Container Design: Alignment, backgrounds, borders, and shadows with padding support for article blocks.
- Shortcode Support: Display post blocks anywhere on your site using shortcodes.
- Responsive Ready: Set different columns per device for a perfect experience on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- Developer Friendly: Built with clean code following WordPress development standards.
Pro Version
Advanced Post Block Pro adds precision filtering, layout enhancements, and deeper content control for high-performing websites.
Pro features include:
- Premium Templates: Unlock the full Template Library with Pro-only, professionally designed layouts.
- Exclusive Layouts: Grid 1, Magazine 1, and Magazine 2 layouts plus sub-layouts like Overlay Content Box, Overlay Half Content, and List Even/Odd.
- Ticker & News Ticker Options: Direction, speed, interval, height, label, theme, animation, and pause on hover.
- Display Pages: Showcase standard WordPress pages alongside your posts.
- Query Presets: Instant configurations for Popular, Random, Sticky, Most Comments, Related Posts, and more.
- Deeper Filtering: Query by tags, custom taxonomies, search terms, and extra Order By options.
- Post Precision: Offset, include/exclude by ID, and exclude current or sticky posts.
- Pagination & AJAX: Modern pagination, navigation, infinite scroll, and load more button.
- Sortable Elements: Drag-and-drop to rearrange post title, metadata, and excerpt.
- Advanced Image Control: Image size, lazyload, default placeholder, grayscale hover effects, and hover radius styling.
- Title Limits: Precise word/character limits with ellipsis.
- Metadata Customization: Separators, gaps, reordering, alignment, custom icons, author links, date formats, and “time ago” display.
- Category Badges: Position categories on the image with padding and border radius styling.
- Reading Time & View Count: Show post read time and post views in the meta area.
- SEO Excerpts: Display the meta description from Yoast, Rank Math, or AIOSEO as the excerpt.
- Custom Query Hook: Leverage the
apb_queryfilter for deep developer-level control.
How to Use
- Install and activate the Advanced Post Block plugin.
- Open a post or page in the Gutenberg editor.
- Click the + icon and search for Advanced Post Block.
- Add the block, then choose your layout style, post type, and display settings.
- Save and publish – that’s it!
You can also open the Template Library from the editor toolbar to import a ready-made layout in one click, or use the shortcode to display post blocks anywhere on your site.
Use Cases
- Blogs: Replace the default post list with modern grid, list, or masonry layouts.
- Magazines & News Sites: Use Magazine layouts, News Ticker, and popularity sorting for editorial-style pages.
- Portfolios & Custom Content: Display any custom post type with taxonomy filtering.
- Landing Pages: Highlight related, popular, or hand-picked posts with query presets.
- Content-Heavy Sites: Let visitors browse seamlessly with pagination, load more, and infinite scroll.
What Users Say
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Plugin
❛❛Amazing plugin, with now option to showcase pages instead of posts as well. Just perfect!❜❜
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It does what I need it to do very well
❛❛This plugin works good, has many options and sounds like more to come. What I like best is the support. Nothing better then a quick reply and they were able help out too! Looking forward to much more style control maybe in a future update.❜❜
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Job!
❛❛I love the layout! Makes things fast and easy.❜❜
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful plugin, exceptional support
❛❛I’ll be completely honest, the level of support offered by the plugin creator is exceptional! This is the best plugin for your blog posts arrangement, it makes your blog look wonderful and well-organized.❜❜
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Source Code
You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository: Advanced Post Block on GitHub
Third-Party Libraries
This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries.
jQuery Easy Ticker
- Source: https://github.com/vaakash/jquery-easy-ticker
- GitHub: https://github.com/vaakash/jquery-easy-ticker
- License: MIT – https://github.com/vaakash/jquery-easy-ticker/blob/master/LICENSE
- Purpose: Provides smooth vertical scrolling for the News Ticker layout.
Swiper
- Source: https://swiperjs.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper
- License: MIT – https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper/blob/master/LICENSE
- Purpose: Modern touch slider used for Slider and News Ticker components.
react-responsive-masonry
- Source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-responsive-masonry
- GitHub: https://github.com/cedricdelpoux/react-responsive-masonry
- License: MIT – https://github.com/cedricdelpoux/react-responsive-masonry/blob/master/LICENSE
- Purpose: Handles responsive masonry layouts for post displays.
Freemius Lite SDK
- Source: https://bplugins.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/freemius-lite-sdk
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
- Purpose: Provides an opt-in consent form for usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin. No data is sent before explicit user consent.
- External Services: Communicates with
api.bplugins.com(activation events) andwp.freemius.com(opt-in processing) only after user opt-in. See bPlugins Privacy Policy and Freemius Privacy Policy.
bpl-tools
- Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
- Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls.
- External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made