It's like Post Formats, but actually useful. Every post is unique, start treating them that way.
As of April 2026, McNinja Post Styles is a WordPress style plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Add Custom CSS.
Go to the homepage or blog page of a site, chances are, all of the posts look similar: A title, an excerpt and a featured image. Why not display the most important part of your posts to readers and actually give them a reason to click on your post a read it? That’s what this plugin does.
To enable Post Style formatting functionality, go to Settings->Reading and select “Enable Post Style formatting.”
McNinja Post Styles is what we always wanted Post Formats to be: powerful, flexible and extendable. Unleash the creativity of your content.
McNinja Post Styles can display content based on the Post Style of a post. For example, if your post has a video in it and you’ve selected the ‘Video’ style, your blog page, category pages, etc. will display that vide…
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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