Make a dynamic landing page navigation

With few less custom code changes you make with your post previews a landing page navigation.

  1. Add a few posts in a same category and set for each post nice thumbnail feature images.

add a thumbnail feature image to each post

  1. Use [catposts] to add the the free widget Category Posts Widget to the content with shortcode.

add the widget to the content with shortcode

  1. Go to “View Post” and the added the widget should looks like blank post headlines while no widget options are set.

widget added to the content

  1. Use recent posts and order by filter option from Category Posts Widget

It will be dynamically changed …

… because you can use all the widget setting options for filtering the used posts and set order-by filters for a single category. If you want more and you use a bigger WordPress site, you can use the Term And Category Based Posts Widget wiche adds “custom post types”, “custom taxonomies”, WooCommerce products, multi selections, etc.

Use disable widget CSS option.

widget-option-settings-b

  1. And you get something like this.

configuration in the customizer

  1. Float left to make horizontal alignment.

And for transition you can add CSS3 transition time.

  1. After using the CSS attributs and selectors your content should looks like this.

 

Downlaod link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-posts

2 Replies to “Make a dynamic landing page navigation”

  1. Hi there! This article couldn’t be written any better! Looking through this post
    reminds me of my previous roommate! He continually kept preaching about this.
    I am going to forward this article to him. Fairly certain he’ll have a
    good read. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Hello Frank,
    you’re right this tutorial is easy to understand. It should show how customers can change, adapt and create eye-chatching variations with only few lines of CSS styles.
    Daniel

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