Layout Now turns your posts into polished, modern layouts in about a minute. Pick a layout, choose a skin, fine-tune it with a few smart controls while you watch a live preview, then drop the shortcode anywhere.

Four layouts

Bento Grid — a large hero card with smaller tiles packed around it. Four patterns that always fill the grid without gaps, even when a category has only a few posts.
Edge-Peek Carousel — a swipeable row where the next card peeks in from the edge to invite scrolling. Native touch scrolling, with optional arrows and dots.
Infinite Marquee — a continuous, auto-scrolling stream of cards with softly faded edges. Pauses on hover and focus, and includes a pause button.
Instant-Filter Grid — a clean grid topped with category or tag pills. Clicking a pill filters and animates the cards into place without reloading the page.

Skins and smart controls

Four skins — Clean, Midnight, Editorial and Cinematic — work with every layout. One-click presets change the whole vibe at once, and stepped controls (corners, spacing, hover effect, image ratio, title size, width, light/dark/auto mode, accent color) keep every combination looking designed.

Fast and theme-proof

Loads nothing on pages without a layout. Each page loads only the CSS of the layouts and skins it actually shows, plus a tiny script (2–3 KB) for interactive layouts. The Bento Grid needs no JavaScript at all.
No jQuery and no slider libraries.
Layouts respond to the space they are placed in (container queries), so they look right in a full-width section or a narrow column.
Scoped styles protect layouts from aggressive theme CSS, so they look the same on any theme.
Post queries are cached and refreshed automatically when your content changes.

Accessible

Keyboard and screen reader friendly: real links and buttons, labelled carousel regions and slides, announced filter results, a pause control for moving content, and full support for the “reduce motion” system setting.

For developers

Data sources, layouts and skins are registered through the layout_now_sources, layout_now_layouts and layout_now_skins filters. Templates can be overridden with the layout_now_template filter, and post queries adjusted with layout_now_posts_query_args.

Source code

The admin app is built with @wordpress/scripts. Its human-readable source is included in the plugin at admin/src. To rebuild it, run npm install and then npm run build in the plugin folder. Frontend scripts and styles in assets/ are not compiled.