Gridster
Use Gridster to manage your content with ease in a customizable grid.
3(8 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 12 years agoAs of April 2026, Gridster is a WordPress gui plugin with 20 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 23K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: GUI for List Category Posts.
3/58 reviews
20active installs
23K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Gridster is a WordPress plugin that makes building intuitive draggable layouts from elements spanning multiple columns. You can even dynamically resize, add and remove elements from the grid, as edit the elements content inline.
You can fork Gridster at Github or tell me about your issues.
General – Features
- manage your contents within a grid
- drag & drop contents as gridster widgets from your last posts, pages or custom post types
- resize gridster widgets on the fly
- use custom templates for all your gridster-widgets, or per post_type
- override side wide settings for every gridster
- inline edit every content loaded via your templates
- images within your gridster-widgets are re-loaded on every resize of a widget, to best fit its dimensions
- add gridsters by simply adding a generated s…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 3.6.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.4
- Tested compatibility with WP 3.6 – everything fine 😉
- Added support for new
shortcode_atts_{shortcode}-filter, introduced in WP 3.6; use it like thisadd_filter( 'shortcode_atts_gridster', 'YOUR-FILTER-FUNCTION-NAME' ); - Introduced a new filter to modify the HTML generated by the shortcode, use
add_filter( 'gridster_shortcode_output', 'YOUR-FILTER-FUNCTION-NAME' ) - Added two actionhooks, one before and one after the rendering of the shortcode output
- Fix for Activation-, Deactivation and Uninstall-Hooks
…and 5 more changes
Contributors
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