Blog Designer Pro

Blog Designer Pro for WordPress

Blog Designer Pro is a layout tool for creating and managing blog content without modifying theme code or CSS files. It provides a large collection of templates and configuration settings for presenting posts, archives, and single entries in various visual formats.

Layouts can be used for blogging sites, company updates, tutorials, product news, author biographies, event summaries, fashion content, reviews, and other sites that need more control over how posts are displayed. A user-friendly administration panel provides access to the main styling options.

Templates for different content styles

The Pro edition includes 50 default blog templates with more than 200 option combinations. These include full-width and list layouts, multi-column grid templates, horizontal and vertical timeline templates, magazine designs, sliders with featured images, and masonry layouts.

• 15 or more full-width and list-style templates.
• 10 unique grid templates.
• 5 or more timeline templates.
• 3 or more magazine templates.
• 3 slider templates.
• 3 masonry templates.

The collection works with different ways to present stories, from readable lists and newspaper-style layouts to visual grids and chronological timelines.

Blog, archive, and post control

You can make unlimited blog, archive, and single layouts. The add-on includes more than 40 archive layout designs for category, tag, author, date, and search-result pages, along with more than 40 single-post layout designs.

Layouts can support custom post types, date-range selection, category and tag filtering, and different designs for different categories. A single-template override option helps apply a selected design and supports compatibility with themes. Blog and archive layouts can also be duplicated with one click, while import and export tools help transfer layouts.

Design and content settings

Use color presets, alternative post background colors, text colors, font sizes, summary lengths, and custom Read More text to shape the presentation. More than 600 Font Awesome icons and more than 800 Google font families are supported. Social sharing buttons can use square or circle styles.

The add-on includes an image media settings panel, an Isotop filter option for categories and tags, and a recent-posts sidebar widget. Related posts can be configured with category and column selection.

Integrations and workflow

Blog Designer Pro supports WPBakery, Divi Builder, and BE Page Builder. It also supports Co-Authors Plus for displaying multiple post authors and Loco Translate for translation processes. WooCommerce, WooCommerce single and archive pages, and the Easy Digital Downloads plugin are supported. Action and filter hooks are available for developers.

Installation and setup

Install Blog Designer Pro in WordPress, open its administration panel, and create a blog, archive, or single-post layout. Select a template, adjust the available content and style settings, then assign the layout to the relevant page or content type. Layouts can also be displayed through the [wp_blog_designer] shortcode. The plugin is translation ready, with a POT file included.