{"id":5298,"date":"2023-12-27T04:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T04:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=5298"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:24:17","password":"","slug":"how-to-use","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/how-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After installation, how to use Content Views plugin on your WordPress website?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. To <strong>display posts, pages, custom post types<\/strong> in beautiful layouts, you can use any ways below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/create-shortcode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Create shortcodes,<\/a> then <a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/insert-shortcode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insert shortcodes<\/a> to where you want to display.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use our blocks in the Block Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/use-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read more<\/a>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use our widgets in the Elementor page builder (<a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/how-to-use-our-elementor-widgets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read more<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. To <strong>change the layout of Blog, Category, Search&#8230; pages<\/strong> to a beautiful grid, please use the (Pro) feature <a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/completely-replace-wordpress-layout-by-content-views-pro-layout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Replace Layout<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. To <strong>add frontend search &amp; filter<\/strong> to your site, please use the (Pro) feature <a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/live-filter-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Live Filter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. To <strong>show related posts<\/strong> with our Pro plugin, please check <a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/show-related-posts-content-views-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this document<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. To <strong>show grid of categories\/tags<\/strong> with our Pro plugin, please check <a href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/display-taxonomy-as-output\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this document<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there are many other features to use. Please explore our view shortcode, blocks, widgets to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For any questions, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contentviewspro.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact us here<\/a>.<br>Best regards,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installation, how to use Content Views plugin on your WordPress website? 1. To display posts, pages, custom post types in beautiful layouts, you can use any ways below: 2. To change the layout of Blog, Category, Search&#8230; pages to a beautiful grid, please use the (Pro) feature Replace Layout. 3. To add frontend search &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/how-to-use\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to use?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[19],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5298","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-getting-started"],"year_month":"2026-09","word_count":147,"total_views":"6","reactions":{"happy":"1","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin1","author_nicename":"admin1","author_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/author\/admin1\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Getting Started","term_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/cats\/getting-started\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5298\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}