Description
The News Addons for Elementor adds 19 dedicated widgets to the Elementor builder for news portals, blogs, and digital magazines — including grids, lists, posters, sliders, carousels, tickers, and tabs — with taxonomy filters, meta queries, custom post types, offsets, and specific IDs. Targeted at media editors, agencies, and content producers who need to build dense editorial layouts in Elementor without relying on closed magazine themes or manual markup.
Key Features
- 19 Editorial Widgets: Grid, List, List Featured, Inline, Poster, Text, Ticker List, Ticker Inline, Slider Grid, Slider List, Carousel, and variations of Tabs (Grid, List, Inline, Text).
- Advanced Queries: taxonomy filters in unlimited combinations, custom meta query for fields, inclusion/exclusion by ID, offset, limit, and order direction.
- CPT and WooCommerce Support: displays any custom post type registered in WordPress, including WooCommerce products.
- Flexible Pagination: infinite scroll, numerical pagination, and swipe navigation, configurable per widget.
- Visual Controls: title, excerpt, image ratio and size, container styles, and inline panel navigation for the Elementor dashboard.
Benefits of News Addons for Elementor
- Theme Freedom: builds magazine-style home pages over any Elementor-compatible theme, without being locked into a news theme.
- Content Recycling: queries existing posts by category, tag, or custom field and displays them in distinct formats by section.
- Dense Editorial Composition: stacks grids, sliders, tabs, and tickers on a single page to mimic the visual rhythm of news portals.
- Short Learning Curve for Editors: everything is configured in the Elementor panels, with no need for PHP templates or shortcodes.
For Who is This Plugin Suitable?
- News portals, online newspapers, and media outlets that publish high volumes of content.
- Editorial blogs, magazine websites, and theme-specific sites that need segmented home pages by editorial sections.
- Agencies and freelancers who deliver Elementor-built content sites for media clients.
For continuous content publishers, the News Addons for Elementor consolidates the listing formats that typically require a dedicated magazine theme into a single package: latest news tickers, featured grid, section tabs, and related story carousels. This allows editors to experiment with different layouts per section of the site without relying on custom development.
Frequently asked questions
Is News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets GPL-licensed?
Yes. News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets cost at Ultrapack?
News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets include updates?
Yes. The current version of News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets is 1.0.0, published at Ultrapack on Jan 10, 2024. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of News Addons for Elementor – Ultimate News, Blog and Magazine Widgets goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Updates: manual. When a new version comes out, download it on this same page and upload it over the old one; WordPress asks whether you want to replace the current version.
The file on this page is the developer’s full package, documentation included. Do not upload that file through the dashboard: WordPress answers that the package does not contain a valid plugin. The plugin comes ready inside it, as a ZIP of its own, and that is the one you upload.
- Download the file
elements-news-addons-for-elementor.zipand extract it on your computer. - Look inside the extracted files for the file
Plugin/xel-news.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Select that file, click Install Now and then Activate.
- There is nothing to zip. The ZIP inside the package is already in the format WordPress accepts.
- The rest of the package belongs to the author: documentation, license and sometimes sample files. None of that is installed through the dashboard.
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