Content Views free version helps you to display posts, pages in beautiful grid and list.
Content Views Pro offers you a lot more features and options. The following table shows the important differences between the free version and Content Views Pro.
| Free | Pro | |
| Top premium features | ||
| Support custom post type, custom taxonomy, custom field | ||
| Front-end filter, search, and sort (by category, tag, custom taxonomy, custom field, text search) for any post type (sample) | ||
| Show multiple content types in one view (for example: show posts, pages, products in one grid) (read more) | ||
| Premium layouts: Pinterest, Masonry, Timeline, Glossary, One & others (sample) | ||
| Change color, font, and other typography styles of elements without writing CSS (read more) | ||
| Reuse View (use one view for different purposes, no need to create many views) (sample) | ||
| Load more, Infinite scrolling pagination (sample) | ||
| Replace layout in Blog, Category, Search, Archives page with beautiful layout without coding (sample) | ||
| Replace layout in WooCommerce Shop, Category, etc page with beautiful layout without coding (sample) | ||
| Make money $ online by displaying advertisements (Google Adsense, HTML banner, etc) in output (sample) | ||
| Filter Woocommerce products (recent, sale, best-selling, featured, top rated, out of stock) with 1 click (read more) | ||
| Support post type, custom field, membership, translation, page builder plugins (Woocommerce, The Events Calendar, Advanced Custom Fields, Pods, Types, WPML, Polylang, Elementor, etc. – see all plugins) | ||
| Filter posts by taxonomy terms with animation (sample) | ||
| Thumbnail overlay (sample) | ||
| Set your own excerpt | ||
| Enable lazy loading for images, iframes to improve page loading time | ||
| Show image/audio/video (Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, SoundCloud, etc.) in post content as thumbnail (sample) | ||
| Social sharing Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Linkedin, Pinterest (sample) | ||
| Show category as output (sample) | ||
| Show related posts from the same category as the current post | ||
| Layout | ||
| 3 basic layouts: Grid, Collapsible list, Scrollable list | ||
| Responsive layout (eg. 1 column for mobile, 3 columns for tablet, and 6 columns for desktop) | ||
| Advanced settings for Grid layout: same height columns (line up items in same row), add border between items | ||
| Advanced settings for Scrollable list: show/hide buttons, automatic cycle with custom interval, support swipe/touch in mobile/tablet devices | ||
| Premium layouts (Pinterest, Masonry, Timeline, Glossary, One & others) | ||
| Filter | ||
| Show post, page | ||
| Include, exclude post/page by ID | ||
| Include, exclude post/page by name (type some characters to searching for posts to include/exclude) | ||
| Limit number of post/page to show | ||
| Offset (skip some first posts) | ||
| Sticky posts (include, exclude, show at top of list) | ||
| Filter/query by category, tag, author, status, keyword | ||
| Filter/query by custom taxonomy | ||
| Filter/query by custom field | ||
| Filter/query by date (today, future, custom date, custom year, from date to date, etc) | ||
| Show posts of current logged in user/author | ||
| Show child pages of a specific parent page by ID | ||
| Show child pages of the current parent page automatically (without having to specify the parent page ID) | ||
| Sort by | ||
| Sort by ID, title, date (alphabetical, newest to oldest, etc.) | ||
| Sort by random order, custom field, drag & drop, page order (menu_order), slug, comment count | ||
| Show | ||
| Show Title, Content, Thumbnail, Meta fields | ||
| Show custom field (sample) | ||
| Change the display order of all the fields (Title, Thumbnail, Content, etc.), for example: show title above thumbnail | ||
| Show image/audio/video in post content as thumbnail (sample) | ||
| Set custom size (custom width, custom height) for thumbnail | ||
| Show all images in the same size | ||
| Set custom style (round edge, border, circle, shadow) for thumbnail (sample) | ||
| Set custom/manual excerpt | ||
| Display the date in custom format (for example: “1 day ago”) | ||
| Hide the read-more button | ||
| Exclude content of specific HTML tags in excerpt | ||
| Show author avatar | ||
| Select which taxonomy to show in meta fields output (for example: show category, hide tag) | ||
| Pagination | ||
| Numbered pagination | ||
| Load more (sample) | ||
| Infinite scrolling (sample) | ||
| More | ||
| Style Settings (unlimited color, custom font, padding, margin, text align, text direction, etc.) | ||
| Thumbnail overlay (always, on hover, none) | ||
| Right to Left (RTL) support | ||
| Open in beautiful lightbox/popup (sample) | ||
| Disable click action on title, thumbnail | ||
| Use rel=”nofollow” for links | ||
| Link to an external website instead of an internal post (use custom link for post) | ||