Do these widgets work?

I want to use Recent Post extended and Wordpress Top posts plugins to display my custom post. They show up in my widget area. When I try house them in Beaver builder, Recent Posts extended does not load at all and wordpress top posts does not show me the options which I see if I do not use Beaver Builder.
Any thoughts on what to do with these?
Thank you,
Patrick

Hey Patrick,

Sorry to say but Recent Posts Extended isn’t compatible with how BB works. Take a look at Justin’s reply on the thread below for more info.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-with-two-widgets-recent-posts-extended-and-ultimate-posts?replies=1#post-7309970

Not really sure about the other plugin though, as I can’t find one when searched. Can you share the link where we can see the plugin?

Ben

Thank you Ben, that was helpful. Sorry the other plugin is Wordpress Popular posts https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/

I want plugins that will enable me to show Top and Recent posts. Do you have good alternatives that work with Beaver Builder?
Thank you,
Patrick

Hey Patrick,

I tried the plugin on the link above and it works fine? What option are you not seeing?

For recent posts, there is a native Recent Posts widget which works fine with BB. We also have a Posts module that you can use. Have you given that a shot?

Ben

Yeah, thank you Ben! I had not noticed the power of the post module. I just tried it and it has worked wonders for my page. BB rocks! Is there a way of customizing the number of characters to be shown for each post with the Recent Posts widget and also to reduce the space between the posts? I guess there is with coding, but anything for non-pros like me?

Hey Patrick,

Not sure which plugin you’re using for your recent posts. Can you share the URL of the site you’re working on so we can check?

Ben

I was using the Recent posts extended plugin when I realized it does not work with BB. Now, I use the inherent Posts Carousel module in BB to display my recent posts. I had used Jackpack before but it does not give me the option to choose to display only my custom posts types.

I wanted to use the Post module but as noted above, the spaces between the posts is really large and I tried reducing with advanced modules but could not. I also wanted to see if there was an option to choose the number of characters of content to show with this module.

My site is a christian blog that has a daily devotional which is a custom post type I built with Types plugin and my theme is altitude pro from genesis framework. This is the most recent page I built with BB,and really loved the ability to do all these little page building without coding! Thank you guys! Really appreciate your plugin and glad I bought it!

I was using the Recent posts extended plugin when I realized it does not work with BB. Now, I use the inherent Posts Carousel module in BB to display my recent posts. I had used Jackpack before but it does not give me the option to choose to display only my custom posts types.

I wanted to use the Post module but as noted above, the spaces between the posts is really large and I tried reducing with advanced modules but could not. I also wanted to see if there was an option to choose the number of characters of content to show with this module.

My site is a christian blog that has a daily devotional which is a custom post type I built with Types plugin and my theme is altitude pro from genesis framework. This is the most recent page I built with BB,and really loved the ability to do all these little page building without coding!

http://patrickoben.com/devotional/what-you-see-is-what-you-get/
Thank you guys! Really appreciate your plugin and glad I bought it!

Hey Patrick,

There should be a Posts Spacing setting on the Posts module which reduces the space between each Post. Is this not working for you? Do you think you can send temp admin access to your site so we can check? You can post the details here using the private reply option below.

To change the length of the texts it’s rendering, you can use a core filter. Just add the code below to your functions.php file. Just change 20 to whatever number of words you want to set it. The default value it 55.

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
  return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

Ben

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Hey Patrick,

The Posts Spacing setting I’m referring to is just under the Layout tab. Check the screenshot below for reference.

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Have you tried playing with that setting? Re the temp user, you can just use a dummy email, and post the access details(username and password) here via private reply. :slight_smile:

Ben