Ditty Posts - Add WordPress Posts to your Ditty 3.1.4

The Ditty Posts extension is a premium add-on for the core Ditty WordPress plugin (formerly known as Ditty News Ticker).

Its primary function is to dramatically enhance the way you display your WordPress content—including blog posts and custom post types—by pulling them into the customizable Ditty display formats (like tickers, sliders, lists, or grids).

Here is a breakdown of what Ditty Posts allows you to do:

🌟 Core Functionality

Feature

Description

Benefit

Advanced WP_Query

Allows you to build highly specific queries using the full power of WordPress's WP_Query parameters.

You can display posts by specific categories, tags, custom fields, post formats, authors, or date ranges—far beyond the basic "latest posts."

Custom Post Types

Unlike the free Ditty version (which only handles basic posts), Ditty Posts lets you select and display content from Custom Post Types (e.g., portfolio items, products, events, or testimonials).

Enables you to use Ditty's dynamic displays for any type of content on your site.

Mixed Queries

You can combine the results of multiple WordPress queries into a single Ditty display.

Allows you to show, for example, the latest post from Category A and the latest five posts from Category B, all merged and sorted by date in one flowing display.

Complete Design Control

Gives you total control over the HTML and CSS layout of how each post item is rendered, using dynamic layout tags (e.g., {title}, {content}, {featured_image}).

You can perfectly match the design of your displayed posts to your website's theme.

Combine Sources

You can mix WordPress post feeds with content from other Ditty extensions (like RSS feeds, Instagram, or Twitter feeds) in a single Ditty display.

Create one unified, dynamic content stream from multiple sources.

💡 In Simple Terms

The standard WordPress list widgets are often rigid. Ditty Posts allows you to break free from those limits. Instead of a standard vertical list of blog posts, you can display:

A scrolling news ticker showing the titles of your latest portfolio pieces.

A responsive slider of recent blog posts that fall under a specific tag.

A custom-styled grid of your most popular articles, featuring a large featured image and only the excerpt.

Ditty Posts provides the feed source, and the core Ditty plugin provides the display type (Ticker, Slider, List, Grid, etc.) and the customization tools.

Would you like to know more about the different display types available in the core Ditty plugin?