A custom plugin for the Elementor page builder that adds an OpenWidget category with four widgets for showing posts, text and images with hover effects.
Current version: 2.0 · Author: Davide Antonica
| Widget | What it does |
|---|---|
| Article | A grid of post cards with category filter buttons, search and custom redirects |
| Latest Posts Hover | The latest posts as cards with a hover effect |
| Animated Text | A rounded button-like text block whose background slides on hover |
| Image Hover | A circular card that combines two images with a hover effect |
All widgets appear in the Elementor editor under the OpenWidget category.
A responsive grid of post cards, built for pages that list many articles.
- Show the latest N posts, or switch on All post to list every post
- Include / exclude categories, and hide chosen categories from the card badge
- Category filter buttons above the grid, with a customisable "All" button
- Search box, matching the title only or the title and content
- Cards with image (with a default image as fallback), category badge, date, tags, title, excerpt and a Read more button
- Categories with a "+" toggle when a post has more than one
- Custom redirects: send a category, date or tag link to a page of your choice, which can itself contain an Article widget
- Filtering through URL parameters:
Article-category,Article-date(year,YYYY/MM/DDorYYYY/MMmfor a month) andArticle-tag, with a reset button for active filters - Customisable "no post found" message
- Separate style controls for the card, image, title, date, tag, category, content, buttons and search box
Displays the latest posts as cards with a hover effect.
- Number of posts and category filter
- Style sections for the title, date, tag, category, content, category filter buttons and search
- Customisable message when no post is found
A centred, rounded text block with a background made of two colours that slides across on hover.
- Text, width, font size and font family
- Left and right background colours
- Text colour and text colour on hover
- Text shadow (colour, horizontal and vertical offset, blur)
A circular card built from two images, with a hover effect.
- Image 1 (cover) and Image 2 (character)
- Circle size
- Download the latest
OpenElementorWidget.zipfrom the Releases page. - In WordPress go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the zip and install it.
- Activate OpenElementorWidget from the Plugins menu.
- Open a page with Elementor and look for the OpenWidget category in the widget panel.
To install manually, upload the OpenElementorWidget folder to /wp-content/plugins/ and activate it.
Requirements: WordPress and the Elementor plugin.
Drag one of the widgets into a section and use the panel on the left to set content and style. Save the page and preview it.
For the Article widget, a common setup is a page that contains an Article widget with All post switched on. Choose that page in Select Page on your other Article widgets, and their category, date and tag links will open the full list already filtered.
Every push to main that changes more than documentation files builds a zip of the plugin and publishes a new release automatically. The workflow is in .github/workflows/release.yml.
Can I use this plugin with other themes? Yes, it works with any WordPress theme compatible with Elementor.
Can I customise the widget style? Yes, every widget has style controls in the Elementor panel.
Can I choose which categories to show? Yes. The Article and Latest Posts Hover widgets have settings to include or exclude specific categories.
Contributions are welcome. If you have suggestions or bug reports, please open an issue on GitHub.
GPL v2 or later.
Developed by Daddie2.