added    related posts option in Query [Feature Request #1267]

  added    Hero Block fallback query option (when posts less than 5)

Related posts option

Hero Block fallback query option

  added    new special IDs Selector for posts, categories, tags, authors

  added    possibility to set custom Post Card Height for mobile, tablet, and desktop

  added    new "Exclude by Author" argument in Query section

  added    new option to open links on new tab ("AnWP Post Grid" >> "Settings")

Custom Post Card Height for mobile, tablet, and desktop

New "Exclude by Author" argument

New option to open links on new tab

New special IDs Selector

  added    'Category Text Color' option in Simple Slider, Simple Grid and Hero Block

  added    'Post Title Color' and 'Post Meta Color' options in Light Grid 

  added    'Category Text Color', 'Post Excerpt Text Color', and 'Post Meta Text Color' options in Classic Grid, Classic Slider, and Classic Blog

  fixed    saving plugin settings in some situation

  added    new option "Default Featured Image" in "AnWP Post Grid" >> "Settings"

  added    custom "Post Icons" option in "AnWP Post Grid" >> "Settings"

  fixed    Swiper (slider) is loaded properly when Elementor's "Improved Asset Loading" is set to Active

  improved    prefixed grid CSS classes to prevent conflicts with some themes

  removed    default video and gallery post format icons. Use more powerful new "Post Icons" options.

New option "Default Featured Image"

Post Icons

  added    Settings: category color picker option to set initial color

  added    Category limit option in all widgets (possibility to show more than one category)

New Tutorials

- Plugin Settings

Category Color Option

Category limit option

  added    premium version

  improvements    minor fixes

  added    option to choose card hover effect (darken & scale or only darken) in "Hero Block", "Classic Grid", "Simple Grid", "Light Grid" (section "Styles & Layout")

  fixed    category background color is not applied in "Hero Block", "Simple Slider", "Classic Slider"

  fixed    incorrect vertical-align of the slider arrows in "Simple Slider" in some cases

Card hover effect

  added    pagination in "Classic Grid", "Classic Blog", "Simple Grid" and "Light Grid"

  added    a new option in posts query "Exclude by Category"

Pagination

"Exclude by Category" option

  added    new options in Classic Blog: 

• post title color, 
• post meta vertical margin, 
• post meta background color, 
• post image width (1/2 or 1/3).

  added    new options in Classic Grid and Classic Slider: 

• post title color, 
• text align, post meta vertical margin, 
• post meta background color, 
• “read more” button.

“Read more” button

  added    new Classic Blog widget

  added    widget header option to the most widgets

Classic Blog

Widget Header option

  added    new Hero Block widget

Hero Block widget

  improved    New Ticker widget (improved performance, added 2 new animations)

  improved    News Ticker widget: 

 -- fixed slider not working when not enough posts;

 -- added Pause on Hover argument

 -- added Navigation

 -- increased max distance between slides to 500 

  added    possibility to set custom Post Card Height for mobile, tablet, and desktop

  added    support for "load more" and pagination in "Widget Header - Category Filter" 

  added    'Post Title Color' and 'Post Meta Color' options in News Ticker

  fixed    "category limit" option doesn't work with "Widget Header - Category Filter"

  fixed    Swiper (slider) is loaded properly when Elementor's "Improved Asset Loading" is set to Active

  added    Category limit option in all widgets (possibility to show more than one category)

  fixes    minor improvements

initial public release