Blog Designer is a good handy and free solution for everyone who is looking for a responsive blog page with the website. Blog Designer provides you with a variety of 8 different blog templates to setup your blog page for any WordPress websites. Sometimes, we always stick with one blog layout as per theme, but it’s not easy to change or modify only blog layout very easily, only you can do it by modifying code and css files. However, using Blog Designer plugin you can design your blog page as per your choice to give it a WOW factor. Also you can modify various settings very quickly from admin side as Blog Designer plugin has User Friendly Admin Panel. So, beginners can start blogging within 5 minutes, no coding skill required. You can show your new blog page design with any page via below shortcode. Shortcode : [wp_blog_designer] – To display blog on page Live Demo: wpblogdesigner.net Documentation: Blog Designer Documentation Link Check our new WordPress Blog Theme Check our new WordPress Portfolio Plugin NOTE: We have updated Blog Designer plugin’s backend UI from new version 1.8.7 for better usability. So, kindly clear the browser cache if you are facing an any issue with backend design or layout settings after upgrading to newer version of plugin. Blog Designer Plugin Features...
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Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found PHP error/s while activating this plugin on our server
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Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 5.9 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days
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Blog Designer is a good handy and free solution for everyone who is looking for a responsive blog page with the website. Blog Designer provides you with a variety of 8 different blog templates to setup your blog page for any WordPress websites. Sometimes, we always stick with one blog layout as per theme, but it’s not easy to change....
Blog Designer is a good handy and free solution for everyone who is looking for a responsive blog page with the website. Blog Designer provides you with a variety of 8 different blog templates to setup your blog page for any WordPress websites. Sometimes, we always stick with one blog layout as per theme, but it’s not easy to change or modify only blog layout very easily, only you can do it by modifying code and css files.
However, using Blog Designer plugin you can design your blog page as per your choice to give it a WOW factor. Also you can modify various settings very quickly from admin side as Blog Designer plugin has User Friendly Admin Panel. So, beginners can start blogging within 5 minutes, no coding skill required.
You can show your new blog page design with any page via below shortcode.
Shortcode : [wp_blog_designer] – To display blog on page
NOTE: We have updated Blog Designer plugin’s backend UI from new version 1.8.7 for better usability. So, kindly clear the browser cache if you are facing an any issue with backend design or layout settings after upgrading to newer version of plugin.
Blog Designer Plugin Features
Fully Responsive
Cross Browsers Support (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.)
Page Selection option to show your blog posts with any page
Easily manage number of posts per page
Show/Hide Post category, tags, author, comment counts, etc.
Multiple Post Category Selection
8 Default Blog Templates – Boxy-Clean, Classical, Crayon-Slider, Light Breeze, Spektrum, Evolution, Timeline and News
Alternative Background color selection for posts
Style your content with wide variety of options like text color, background color, font size, etc.
Maintain post content length with summary text
Manage your ‘Read More’ text
Custom CSS support
Square/Circle social share buttons
Translation Ready (.pot file attached)
Blog Designer Pro Features:
Pro version overcomes your limitations with lite version of blog designer.
Blog Designer PRO Plugin Features
40+ Default Blog Templates with 200+ option combinations and more coming soon!
15+ Full-width/list style unique blog templates to showcase posts in good readable format
10 Unique grid templates to showcase your stories in multiple columns
5+ Unique timeline templates to showcase your stories in horizontal and vertical presentation
3+ Magazine templates to represent you blog posts in newspaper style
3 Unique slider templates to showcase your posts with big featured images
3 Masonry templates to showcase your vertical featured images in good format with posts
Unlimited Blog, Archive and Single Layouts to design anything with blog
40+ Category/Tag/Author/Date/Search Result Archive Layout page Design
40+ Single Post Layout Design with number of features
Single Template override option to implement and make plugin compatible for any themes
Custom Post type support for Layouts
Template color preset for demo color of templates
Date Range post selection for Blog Layouts
Page Builder Support for Visual Composer, Divi Builder, BE Page Builder, etc.
Support of ‘Co-Authors Plus’ plugin to showcase multiple post authors
Support of ‘Loco Translate’ plugin to make your blog multilingual
Easy to switch from free to PRO via ‘One Click’ option
Demo Install Layout Settings with Restore Default option
Grid layouts with ‘Media Query’ setting options for responsive screen
5+ Date Format options to select any best date format
‘Live Preview’ before create/modify Blog Layouts
Post like feature to add like with the specific blog
Multiple order by options – Published/Modified Date, Post ID, Post Title, etc.
Advanced Filter options for categories & tags to include and exclude posts for loop
Advanced Query: ‘Include/exclude’ categories and tags from the loop
Wide range of post title settings including link enable/disable
4 Pagination type options including “Load More”
5+ Pagination Templates for next posts link
3 Template style to design Load More button
25+ ‘Load Icon’ library to select any loader on next load process
Date/Taxonomy filterable option with selected templates
Blog Post Template color available with selected templates
Custom ‘Read More’ link option to target your external blog link
10 Multiple social sharing button styles
Social Share counts available with different positions
Pinterest instant share button with featured image
Whatsapp, telegram, pocket, reddit social share buttons for instant mobile share
‘Share via Email’ option to share your blog and learnings to your friends
Author Biography design available with Single Post Layout
Unlimited Author Layout possibilities to give new look to every authors
Related Posts with category and column selection
600+ Font Awesome icons support
800+ Google font-family support
Duplicate Blog and Archive Layouts via single click
We found the following errors while activating the plugin. Read more how WP Hive generates this data.
[01-Feb-2022 04:25:55 UTC] PHP Notice: wp_enqueue_script() was called incorrectly. "wp-editor" script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 5.8.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 5768
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