Sometimes a listing is not a query at all — it is a hand-picked set. A row of three case studies on a landing page, or the two posts a campaign is built around.
Include Post(s) in the Dynamic Smart Showcase widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor limits the listing to the IDs you name, in place of whatever the query would have returned.
To check the complete feature overview documentation of The Plus Addons for Elementor Dynamic Smart Showcase widget, click here.
Requirement – This widget is a part of The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro, make sure it’s installed & activated to enjoy all its powers.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — Dynamic Smart Showcase is only in The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro. With the Pro plugin switched off the widget is not in the editor at all, and a page that already uses it shows nothing where the widget was.
- Widget to enable: Dynamic Smart Showcase, switched on under The Plus Addons > Widgets.
- You need published content: the widget queries your site. Posts, pages or a custom post type with published entries must already exist, or the widget prints Posts not found.
- You need the post IDs: the numbers WordPress uses internally, not the slugs. The steps below show where to find them.
How to Find a Post ID
- In the WordPress dashboard, go to Posts.
- Hover over the post you want to show.
- Read the edit link in the status bar at the bottom of the browser. The number after
post=is the post ID.
How to Include It
- Select the Dynamic Smart Showcase widget on your page.
- Open the Content Source section.
- Type the post ID into Include Post(s). For several posts, separate the IDs with commas:
2402,2405. - Make sure Maximum Posts Display is at least as large as the number of IDs you entered — it starts at 1.
The Result
Only the two named posts are listed:
How It Behaves
- Only the named IDs are queried, so the categories, tags and taxonomy settings no longer widen the listing.
- Order By and Order still apply, so the posts appear in date order by default rather than the order you typed the IDs.
- It works for every post type. Use the ID shown in the edit link for that post type.
- Maximum Posts Display still caps the result: with three IDs and a maximum of 2, only two posts are drawn. Offset Posts still skips from the front of that list.
- Select Category and Select Tags are still applied on top. If none of your IDs sits in the selected category, the widget shows Posts not found.
- Exclude Post(s) is ignored while Include Post(s) has a value.
- If none of the IDs exists, the widget prints Posts not found.
Limitations
- The field takes IDs only — no slugs, no titles.
- You cannot control the order of the cards by the order of the IDs. Use Order By instead, and consider Default Menu Order if you need a hand-set sequence on a post type that supports it.
- The list is static: a new post will not appear in the listing until you add its ID.
Troubleshooting
Nothing shows at all
Check that the IDs exist and are published. A typo produces Posts not found rather than a warning.
Fewer posts than IDs
Raise Maximum Posts Display in Content Source. It defaults to 1, so a single card is drawn no matter how many IDs you entered.
The posts are in the wrong order
The listing is sorted by Order By and Order, not by the order of the IDs.
