Locus WordPress Plugin
Locus allows you display any post, page or post type in widgetized areas of you site.
List post from a specific category with options like date format, link text, order and more. Locus is a very simple plugin for display content in diferrent ways:
- Display a single post, page or any available post type.
- Display full content or the excerpt, or both!
- Category descriptions are visible by default, if any.
- Configure date format, link text or hide them all.
- Use styles for every block, (refer the stylesheet in
locus/control/locus-style.css) - Set display post orders, such random, by date, by author, comment count (popularity) etc
- Display thumbnails, if available
- Easy to use: you don't have to learn to use it
- Settings per widget, so you can have different widgets.
blocks
categories
content
pages
post types
posts
widgets
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Usage of Locus over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 15 to 8 — down 7 (-46.7%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 8 | -2 |
| June 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 10 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 10 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 11 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 11 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 11 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 11 | -3 |
| August 2023 | 14 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 14 | -1 |
| June 2023 | 15 | — |
Sites running Locus
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