Title: Smart Post Lists Light
Author: OTWthemes
Published: <strong>May 24, 2012</strong>
Last modified: March 29, 2022

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Smart Post Lists Light

 By [OTWthemes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/otwthemes/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/smart-post-lists-light.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-post-lists-light/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-post-lists-light/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-post-lists-light/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-post-lists-light/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-post-lists-light/)

## Description

You can create a fully functional website using this widget. Check out the showcase.

Drag & drop the widget in as many sidebars or custom widget areas as you like and
build as many independent lists as you like. It is very easy to build any type of
list you’d like. It works similar to SQL query but no coding knowledge is required!
[Check out demo site](http://otwthemes.com/demos/smart-post-lists-light/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=demo&utm_campaign=spll)

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>  [Video demonstration](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A8q7UQJzLg).

**How it works**

Go to your widgets section. Drag and Drop the widget in a sidebar(widget area) that
you want your list to appear in. Fill in the form and click save. Here are the options
you can choose from:

 * Select multiple categories and tags to list posts from.
 * Choose the number of posts to list and where to start listing from.
 * Order the list by: author, date created, date modified, post title.
 * Order to display posts: ascending, descending.
 * Select fields you want to show: title, date, excerpt, number of comments.
 * Select excerpt length in words
 * Choose to show image on: all posts, first only or none
 * Choose size of the image: thumb, medium, large
 * Choose image float: top of text, left of text, right of text

By filling a simple form this plugin will build an SQL SELECT query, return a result
set and build html code based on it. The form controls select expression, where 
condition, order by expression, limit expression.
 No coding is required!

**Showcase**

You can create a fully functional website using this widget. Get some ideas at the
[demo site](http://otwthemes.com/demos/smart-post-lists-light/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=demo&utm_campaign=spll).

 * Sidebar examples
 * Footer examples
 * Blog examples
 * Portfolio example
 * Products example
 * Widgetized page

**Customize front-end**

By default the widget looks like all other widgets from the same sidebar (widget
area) you drop it in. It has its own CSS file that overrides the default styles 
for your list elements. You can use that file to further customize the front-end
outlook.

**Get more of this plugin**

Most themes for WordPress will come with default sidebars and a few footer areas
where you can drop widgets in. If you want to have custom widget areas for instance
in content areas of your pages and post, or any other area of your site:

 * Create your custom widget areas by using a plugin. It’s fast and easy.
 * Create your custom widget areas by little coding – advanced users.
 * Use an advanced theme with more widget areas defined.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Widget settings
 * [[
 * A list with images, titles, dates and comments
 * [[
 * Titles and excerpts
 * [[
 * Only images
 * [[
 * Images with title
 * [[
 * Only titles
 * [[
 * Image left of text
 * [[
 * Image right of text

## Installation

Please refer to [online documentation page](http://otwthemes.com/online-documentation-smart-post-list-light/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=docs&utm_campaign=spll)
for more details and screenshots.

## FAQ

Please refer to [online documentation page](http://otwthemes.com/online-documentation-smart-post-list-light/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=docs&utm_campaign=spll)
for more details and screenshots.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[I regret purchasing!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-regret-purchasing/)󠁿

 [Jrenzoli](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jrenzoli/) September 3, 2016

Problems from the start. Will not save in some widget areas. Smart Post List Light
worked well I upgraded and it will not save in widget areas as before.

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-post-lists-light/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Smart Post Lists Light” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ OTWthemes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/otwthemes/)

[Translate “Smart Post Lists Light” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/smart-post-lists-light)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-post-lists-light/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/smart-post-lists-light/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/smart-post-lists-light/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/smart-post-lists-light/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.8

 * Updated: Core components

#### 1.7

 * Updated: php8 support
 * Updated: Escape html attributes
 * Updated: Sanitize requests
 * Updated: Use strict mode for javascript
 * Updated: Shortcode changes to support block editors

#### 1.6

 * Updated: OTW core functions

#### 1.5

 * Updated: latest version of OTW factory
 * Fixed: error mode modification

#### 1.4

 * Updated: OTW core componets update
 * Updated: WordPress 4.8 support

#### 1.3

 * Updated: WordPress 4.3 support

#### 1.2

 * Fixed: Category dropdown fixes

#### 1.1

 * Added: Image size medium and large
 * Added: Show thumbnail on post first

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.8**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.9.13**
 * Tags
 * [authors](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/authors/)[blog](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blog/)
   [custom post list](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-post-list/)[featured image](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-image/)
   [post list](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-list/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-post-lists-light/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.8 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-post-lists-light/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-post-lists-light/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-post-lists-light/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ OTWthemes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/otwthemes/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-post-lists-light/)

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