Smart Post Show – Post Grid, Post Carousel & Slider, and List Category Posts

by ShapedPlugin LLC

Description

Live Demo | Support | Upgrade to Pro!

Smart Post Show allows you to filter and display posts, pages, and taxonomies (categories, tags, and post formats) in carousel and grid layouts without coding. Create post carousels and grids to display your content in various ways.

Three Steps to Create Your Post Carousel or Grid

Step 1: Select a carousel or grid layout. Customize the layout with various settings.
Step 2: Filter posts by type (posts, pages), ID, taxonomy (categories, tags, post formats), author, keyword, status, and sort order (ID, title, date, modified date).
Step 3: Paste the generated shortcode anywhere you want to display your post carousel or grid.

Easy to Use

Display any post type without writing code. The plugin provides an intuitive interface suitable for all users. The settings panel helps you create carousels and grids efficiently, with well-organized options and clear descriptions.

Responsive & SEO Friendly

Smart Post Show is responsive and SEO-friendly. Customize the number of slides displayed on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

Customization Options

The plugin offers multiple customization options and is extendable with hooks to modify the query and output.

Performance Optimized

The plugin follows WordPress coding standards and is optimized for performance.

Theme Compatibility

Smart Post Show works with most WordPress themes and plugins, including Genesis, Divi, Avada, and others. It is compatible with single-site and multisite WordPress networks.

Page Builder Integration

The plugin integrates with page builders such as Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, ThemeFusion, Beaver Builder, and SiteOrigin.

Translation & RTL Ready

Translate the plugin into your language using .po and .mo files. The plugin is Right-To-Left (RTL) ready and supports multilingual websites.

Regular Updates

The plugin is regularly updated with new features, bug fixes, and security patches.

Documentation

If you have any questions about working with Smart Post Show, you can take a look at the online documentation.

Author

Designed and Developed by ShapedPlugin

Installation

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

PHP 5.6 or later
MySQL 5.6 or later
WordPress 5.0 or later

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working

AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION (EASIEST WAY)

To do an automatic install of Smart Post Show, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click Add New.
In the search field, type “Smart Post Show”. Once you have found it, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now” and then “Activate”.

MANUAL INSTALLATION

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

Download post-carousel.zip
Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
Select post-carousel.zip from your computer
Click ‘Install Now’
Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

Download post-carousel.zip
Extract the post-carousel directory to your computer
Upload the post-carousel directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

You will now see the Post Carousel menu in your WordPress admin panel.

The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Screenshots

Demo
Filter Content
Display Options
Carousel Controls
Detail Page Settings
Typography

Faq

Is Smart Post Show free?

Yes! Smart Post Show is free to use.

How can I show Post Carousel or Post Grid?

After activating the plugin, you will see “Smart Post Show” in the WordPress admin dashboard.

Three Steps to Create Your Post Carousel or Grid
* Step 1: Select a carousel or grid layout to display your posts. Customize the layout with various settings.
* Step 2: Filter posts by type (posts, pages), ID, taxonomy (categories, tags, post formats), author, keyword, status, and sort order (ID, title, date, modified date).
* Step 3: Paste the generated shortcode where you want to display your post carousel or grid.

I’d like access to more features. How can I get them?

Additional features are available in the Pro version of the plugin.

What if I upgrade to the premium version?

Your existing Post Carousels or Grids content will work with premium version. You won’t lose your existing content.

Do I need coding skills to use Smart Post Show?

No coding skills are required. You can create post carousels and grids without writing shortcode attributes.

Is Smart Post Show responsive?

Yes, Smart Post Show is responsive and works on mobile and touch devices.

Can I show Post Carousel or Grid anywhere on my website?

Yes, you can add Post Carousel or Grid inside blog posts, pages, widgets, and elsewhere on your WordPress site using a shortcode or PHP function.

How to show Post Carousel or Grid on my homepage, header.php, or PHP files?

<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[smart_post_show id=”x…”]’); ?>

Can I have multiple Post Carousels or Grids with separate settings?

Yes, you can create unlimited Post Carousels or Grids with separate settings on pages, posts, templates, widgets, or elsewhere.

Will Smart Post Show work with my theme?

Smart Post Show works with any WordPress theme that follows WordPress standards.

Where can I report bugs?

If you find a bug, please report it in our support. You will be replied once the issue is resolved.

Is Smart Post Show Multilingual Ready?

Yes, Smart Post Show is translation-ready and compatible with WPML, Polylang, Loco Translate, qTranslate-x, GTranslate, Google Language Translator, WPGlobus, and others.

Is Smart Post Show ready with multisite?

Yes, Smart Post Show works with WordPress multisite networks.

Reviews

The PRO version works very well

By mpojalow on September 15, 2025

Everything is fine. The temporary licensing issues that appeared on my website were quickly and positively resolved by support, with the bonus of a lifetime license. This is a very kind gesture from the developer, for which I am grateful.

Great but need improvment

By Mohsen Tavoosi (mohsenion) on September 11, 2025

This plugin need duplicate option to able copy any existing carousels or lists. Also there is a bug! If you turn of paging, Just default counts(12) items will be show. And even if you turn of paging, You should go turn it on, Then change item counts to show, Then turn of paging and then save!

Excelent plugin!

By zulex on June 9, 2025

Excelent plugin, even as free version it is enough to create very nice pages. Useful and fast

Post Show plugin is the Best

By imaxweb on April 8, 2025

Today I purchased and activated the Smart Post Show plugin. It’s a very powerful tool with so many options that perfectly meet my needs. I reached out to live support for a few adjustments, and they provided excellent service with perfect solutions. Great customer support! I 100% recommend this plugin.

Refund Received, But Not Worth the Hassle

By happybuilder24 on April 15, 2025

I tried the premium Smart Post Show plugin and it completely missed the mark. It didn’t display content correctly and failed to integrate smoothly with my site. Despite giving support full access, the problems weren’t fixed.

In the end, I did get my money back — but the experience left a lot to be desired. Wouldn’t recommend this plugin.

great plugin

By Maria (maenmiu) on March 14, 2025

one of the few i installed 3 years ago or so and never uninstalled or felt the need to replace

great

By wamkat on March 13, 2025

great

Great plugin

By afromcpie on March 13, 2025

This plugin really helped us to present specific posts across a variety of pages. The support team are very responsive and helpful.

Helped implement "featured" content

By styzer on February 14, 2025

I needed to reproduce a layout with 3 boxes of text content below the hero image on my site. (Classic Editor).

The solution I finally explored successfully was using SmartPostShow and disabling all "slider" functions except "Include Only - Enter post IDs, or type to search by title."

So I created 3 posts and called them out with this. No need to slide or autoplay. AND it's responsive. Not 100% by 90% is perfect for this. 🙂

When a plugin is well designed, it can serve alternative purposes!

Did ZACKLY What I Needed!

By chiachatter on January 18, 2025

BUT - what else can I do with it? That is TBD. It served its original purpose magnificently, now I want to use it again, and will be actively seeking ways to incorporate it into my site. Yes, the plugin is THAT GOOD!

Changelog

3.0.11 – Nov 25, 2025

Tested: WordPress 6.9 compatibility.
Tested: WooCommerce 10.3.5 compatibility.

3.0.10 – Aug 25, 2025

Fix: Elementor editor preloader issue.

3.0.9 – Aug 25, 2025

Improved: Enhanced plugin security and data validation.
Improved: Custom CSS and JS option.

3.0.8 – Aug 21, 2025

New: The Content orientation: Left and Right options.
New: The Carousel Navigation: Top-Left position.
New: The Carouse Pagination: Dynamic option.
Improved: Some plugin options are enhanced to make them more user-friendly.
Tested: WooCommerce 10.1.1 compatibility.

3.0.7 – Jul 11, 2025

Improved: The plugin setting page tab icons.
Fix: The plugin page style issue was found during testing with the WordPress Playground.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Tested: WordPress 6.8.1 compatibility.

3.0.6 – Apr 14, 2025

Improved: The plugin options styles for RTL language websites.
Fix: A few WPCS-related warnings.
Fix: The help page recommended plugins logo URL not found issue.
Tested: WordPress 6.8 compatibility.
Tested: WooCommerce 9.8.1 compatibility.

3.0.5 – Jan 23, 2025

Improved: The shortcode select option style of the gutenberg block.
Fix: The warning when placing the translation file in the wp-content/language folder.
Fix: The warning was found when the pro version was downgraded to the free version.
Update: The language (.pot) file.
Tested: WordPress 6.7.1 compatibility.
Tested: WooCommerce 9.6.0 compatibility.

3.0.4 – Nov 21, 2024

Fix: The plugin style issue for RTL sites.
Tested: WooCommerce 9.4.2 compatibility.

3.0.3 – Nov 10, 2024

Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Tested: WordPress 6.7 compatibility.

3.0.2 – Oct 15, 2024

Fix: The PHP 7.2 compatibility issue.
Tested: WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility.
Tested: WooCommerce 9.3.3 compatibility.

3.0.1 – Sep 04, 2024

Improved: The plugin security has been improved.
Fix: Some string translation issue.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Tested: WordPress 6.6.1 compatibility.
Tested: WooCommerce 9.2.3 compatibility.

3.0.0 – Jul 11, 2024

New: The Slider Layout feature.
New: The List Layout feature.
New: The Vertical Gap between items option.
New: Image Border and Border-Radius option
New: The Border option of the Read More button.
New: The Border option for grid or list pagination.
New: Border option for slider or carousel navigation.
New: Border-Radius option for slider or carousel navigation.
Improved: Plugin UI and UX improved.
Improved: The backed options have been enhanced.
Improved: The options of Display Settings were reorganized by the Nested Tab.
Improved: The options of Carousel Settings were reorganized by the Nested Tab.
Improved: The Hide on Mobile option is separated for carousel navigation and pagination options.
Updated: The language(.pot) file.
Fix: The ‘SPS_Help’ class conflicts with other plugins
Tested: WordPress 6.5.5 compatibility.
Tested: WooCommerce 9.1.0 compatibility.

2.4.29 – Jun 06, 2024

Tested: WooCommerce 8.9.2 compatibility.

2.4.28 – Apr 08, 2024

Improved: The plugin security has improved.

2.4.27 – Apr 04, 2024

Fix: The warning was found when the plugin was activated via the WP-CLI command.
Tested: WordPress 6.5 compatibility.

2.4.26 – Mar 19, 2024

Improved: The Help Page has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly.
Fix: The warning was found when activating the plugin via WP CLI.
Tested: WooCommerce 8.6.1 compatibility.
Tested: WordPress 6.4.3 compatibility.

2.4.25 – Nov 09, 2023

Fix: Few PHPCS warnings with PHP8.2.
Tested: WordPress 6.4.1 compatibility.
Tested: WooCommerce 8.2.2 compatibility.

2.4.24 – Aug 22, 2023

Fix: The plugin ui interaction conflict along with the EasyTimeTable plugin.
Tested: WordPress 6.3 compatibility.

2.4.23 – Jul 06, 2023

Updated: Minimum required WordPress version for the plugin.
Fix: The issue related to the “nofollow” attribute.
Fix: The issue of not showing carousels with Elementor Pro plugin.
Tested: WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility.

2.4.22 – May 24, 2023

Fix: The tab and key navigation option of the carousel does not work.

2.4.21 – Apr 19, 2023

Fix: Uncaught TypeError – cannot access offset of type string on string.
Tested: WordPress 6.2 compatibility.

2.4.20 – Mar 14, 2023

Improved: The Gutenberg Block NPM packages are updated.
Fix: The conflict of the plugin Swiper with other plugins like Elementor Swiper.
Fix: The Elementor block icon gets modified by another plugin’s icon.

2.4.19 – Jan 05, 2023

Fix: The carousel style issue along with WP Carousel Free.
Improved: Plugin security improved.
Improved: Swiper JS version updated to 8.4.3
Tested: WooCommerce 7.2.2 compatibility.

2.4.18 – Dec 07, 2022

Improved: Load dynamic style according to the shortcode on the page.

2.4.17 – Oct 07, 2022

New: The Free mode of the Carousel layout.

2.4.16 – Aug 26, 2022

Fix: Few deprecated JS warnings on the plugin tools page.

2.4.15 – Jul 20, 2022

Fix: The icons of meta fields do not show after upgrading to Pro.

2.4.14 – Jun 15, 2022

Fix: The premium page warnings.
Fix: CLS issue of carousel layout.

2.4.13 – May 18, 2022

Tested: WordPress 6.0 compatibility.
Fix: Deprecated warning of the Gutenberg Block.
Fix: Few deprecated JS warnings.

2.4.12 – Apr 30, 2022

Fix: Deprecate the warning of the Elementor Block.
Fix: Invalid image URL-related warning.
Fix: The sub-tag is not allowed in the post title.
Fix: WPCS errors and warnings.
Improved: The export functionality has been improved.
Removed: Unused codes from the plugin.

2.4.11 – Apr 18, 2022

New: Add SVG preloading icon as a preloader image.
Removed: Removed the TinyMCE button.
Optimized: Removed unused images in the plugin and optimized existing images and SVGs.

2.4.10 – Mar 05, 2022

Fix: Filtering pages by title doesn’t work.

2.4.9 – Feb 23, 2022

New: Recent WooCommerce products option added.
Improved: Plugins installed page.

2.4.8 – Feb 09, 2022

New: Elementor Addons added.
Improved: Navigation and Pagination default color improved with an accessible color.
Improved: Shortcode Generator settings tabs improved with accessible color.
Fix: Pagination issue for multiple grid shortcodes used in a page.
Fix: A warning related to the Gutenberg block.
Fix: Minor tweaking.

2.4.7 – Feb 02, 2022

Fix: Language .pot file issue.

2.4.6 – Jan 27, 2022

Tested: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.

2.4.5 – Jan 05, 2021

Fix: Compatibility issue for Gutenberg block with WP v4.9.18 or less.

2.4.4 – Dec 28, 2021

New: Gutenberg Block to insert the shows.

2.4.3 – Dec 13, 2021

Improved: Redesign Filter Content tab (Post Types).

2.4.2 – Nov 06, 2021

Improved: Settings page “Save Changes” and “Reset Tab” button.
Removed: “Reset All” button.

2.4.1 – Oct 19, 2021

Fix: The carousel tab properties have been hidden when moving to other layouts.
Fix: Data clean-up on deletion doesn’t work.
Improved: Shortcode settings panel text.

2.4.0 – Sep 27, 2021

New: Import and Export (Tools) option added.

2.3.6 – Aug 30, 2021

New: Filter hook for hiding posts without thumbnails.
Fix: Border radius issue.

2.3.5 – Aug 11, 2021

Removed: Unused code.
Improved: Backend preview security.

2.3.4 – Aug 04, 2021

Improved: Plugin security.

2.3.3 – Jul 30, 2021

Improved: Nonce verification for Ajax requests has been improved.
Fix: Plugin security issues have been fixed.
Fix: Disabling the Nofollow attribute on the Title and Readmore fixed.

2.3.2 – Jul 14, 2021

Fix: PHP old version compatibility issue.
Tested: WordPress 5.8 compatibility.

2.3.1 – Jul 10, 2021

Improved: Backend options panel and typo.

2.3.0 – Jun 21, 2021

New: Generator backend live preview option.

2.2.11 – Jun 04, 2021

Improved: Shortcode, AutoEmbed, and Line break support added to the post content.

2.2.10 – May 24, 2021

Fix: Undefined variable/PHP error notice issue.

2.2.9 – Apr 27, 2021

Fix: Home page pagination issue in Grid layout.
Update: Swiper JS latest version.

2.2.8 – Apr 17, 2021

Improved: Read More button is independent of Content.
Improved: Help tooltip text alignment and text change for columns.
Improved: AutoPlay Speed and Pause on Hover have been hidden when AutoPlay is off.
Fix: Redirect to the help page after activating the plugin.

2.2.7 – Apr 03, 2021

New: Shortcode field redesigned.
New: Shortcode onClick copy option.
Improved: Help page.

2.2.6 – Mar 16, 2021

Tested: WordPress 5.7 compatibility.
New: Support & Documentation link added.

2.2.5 – Feb 09, 2021

New: Post title br tag supported.
Fix: Grid pagination issue on the same page.

2.2.4 – Jan 12, 2021

Fix: Admin notice style issue.
Improved: Plugin action link system.
New: Help page video tutorial.

2.2.3 – Jan 08, 2021

New: Mouse wheel scrolling for carousel.
Improved: Admin setting improved.

2.2.2 – Dec 17, 2020

Fix: Setting page link issue.

2.2.1 – Dec 14, 2020

Fix: Preloader issue.
Fix: Parse error issue.

2.2.0 – Dec 10, 2020

New: Grid layout.
New: Common Filtering: (include specific posts, exclude posts, and limit options).
New: Advanced Filtering: Taxonomy (categories, tags, and post formats), Author, Sort by (Order by and Order), Status, Keyword, etc.
New: Preloader option.
New: Detail page link type (none) option.
New: Link target options.
New: Add rel=”nofollow” to item links option.
New: Color options for tile, meta field, content, etc.
New: Margin between columns option.
New: Thumbnail Show/Hide option.
New: Thumbnail available sizes option.
New: Post title HTML tag selection.
New: Meta field comment count.
New: Read More options.
New: Post border & border radius option.
New: Post background color option.
New: Inner padding option.
New: Carousel infinite loop option.
New: Carousel lazy load option.
New: Carousel direction option.
New: Adaptive carousel height option.
Improved: Carousel navigation option.
Improved: Plugin renaming Post Carousel to Smart Post Show.
Fix: WordPress 5.6 compatible issue.

2.1.13 – Aug 24, 2020

Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatible issue.

2.1.12 – Nav 25, 2019

Fix: WordPress 5.3 compatible issue.

2.1.11 – May 22, 2019

Fix: WordPress 5.2.1 compatible issue.

2.1.10

Fix: WordPress 5.1 compatible issue.
Improved: Set post image size “large”.

2.1.9 – Nov 01, 2018

Fix: Pagination dots issue.
Fix: Post date issue.

2.1.8 – Oct 02, 2018

Enhanced: Content show/hide option enhanced with Full content and Limited content options.

2.1.7 – Aug 03, 2018

Fix: Languages path issue.

2.1.6 – May 16, 2018

Fix: Date meta issue.

2.1.5 – March 01, 2018

New: Shortcode support in content.

2.1.4 – January 01, 2018

Fix: Shortcode generator error.

2.1.3 – November 25, 2017

Fix: Icon issue.

2.1.2

Fix: Post meta date issue.

2.1.1

Fix: Language-changing issue.

2.1

Improved Admin Setting Panel
Added Carousel Title Option

2.0

Shortcode Generator
Post Title on/off
Post Title Color
Post Title Hover Color
Post Content on/off
Post Content Color
Post Author Name on/off
Post Date on/off
Post Meta Color
Post Meta Hover Color
Two Theme Style
Navigation on/off
Navigation Color
Navigation Background Color
Pagination Dots on/off
Pagination Color
Pagination Active Color
AutoPlay on/off
AutoPlay Speed
Pause on Hover on/off
Pagination Speed
Touch Swipe
Mouse Draggable
RTL Mode

1.0

First Release