Shortcodes Usage for Popular Posts

Last Updated on Feb 19, 2025

If you’re using shortcodes to display your Popular Posts, there are many different tags that you can use to change the theme and style of your Inline Popular Posts, Popular Posts widget, or Popular Products cards.

With attribute tags you can override styles such as colour (background, text, etc), add or remove titles, even change the layout by changing theme (alpha, beta, etc).

Before getting started…

Detailed in this guide is a list of all the attribute tags that you can use to override and change the default settings:

Example Usage

Popular Posts Shortcode example

The image above shows an example of the inline Popular Posts shortcode being changed with the attributes theme, changing the theme to alpha for this post only.

[monsterinsights_popular_posts_inline]

Adding any of the extra attribute tags below to an existing or new Inline Popular Posts shortcodes in your blog posts allow you to modify attributes that can be set.

  • theme (theme name lowercase: alpha, beta, charlie, etc)
  • title_color (css color)
  • title_size (integer – in px)
  • label_color (css color)
  • label_text (string – text to display for label)
  • background_color (css color)
  • background_border (css color) – theme specific
  • border_color  (css color) – theme specific
  • border_color2  (css color) – theme specific
  • icon_color  (css color)
  • icon_background  (css color)
[monsterinsights_popular_posts_widget]

Popular Post Widget shortcode attribute tags allows you to edit the way the widget displays information in the sidebar.

  • theme (theme name lowercase: alpha, beta, charlie, etc)
  • title_color (css color)
  • title_size (integer – in px)
  • label_color (css color)
  • label_text (string – text to display for label)
  • background_color (css color)
  • background_border (css color)
  • meta_color (css color)
  • meta_size (integer – in px)
  • meta_author (on/off)
  • meta_date (on/off)
  • meta_comments (on/off)
  • comments_color (css color)
  • columns (1/2/3)
  • widget_title (on/off)
  • widget_title_text (string – text to display for title)
[monsterinsights_popular_posts_products]

Popular Products shortcode attribute tags allows you to change specifics about the product cards that are displayed inline on product pages.

  • title_color (css color)
  • title_size (integer – in px)
  • label_color (css color)
  • label_text (string – text to display for label)
  • background_color (css color)
  • background_border (css color)
  • price_color (css color)
  • price_size (integer – in px)
  • meta_price (on/off)
  • meta_rating (on/off)
  • meta_image (on/off)
  • rating_color (css color)
  • columns (1/2/3)
  • categories (comma separated ids)