Mate List

Reading rows rather than tiles. By default the Mate List in Sky Addons for Elementor runs a single column of wide rows, each splitting fifty-fifty between the featured image and the text, with a 34px headline, a fifteen-word excerpt and a circular author avatar with the date beneath the name. It suits a blog index or an author page more than a card wall.

Yes, one to four, and unlike the grid widgets it defaults to one column at every breakpoint because the rows are designed to be wide. Two columns with the stacked layout turns it into a conventional card grid; four columns only really works with the image-on-top layout and a short excerpt.

Where the picture goes. Default sets the image and the text side by side at half the row each with the large 34px headline; Layout 1 stacks the image above the text and drops the title to 22px; Layout 2 puts the image underneath. The setting is stored per breakpoint, so a side-by-side desktop row can become a stacked tablet card.

Row Gap and Column Gap are separate responsive sliders. Column Gap starts at 36px, which is also the gap held between the picture and the text inside each row, so a single value keeps the vertical and horizontal rhythm consistent. Row Gap is left unset so the list starts tight and you open it out to taste.

Yes. Show Pagination adds numbered page links below the last row, and they hide themselves when the query fits on a single page. They use WordPress’s standard paged variable, so each page is a real page load with its own URL — which is what you want for a blog index that search engines should be able to walk.

The Default layout is forced to a single column below 768px, with a 24px gap, because half of a phone screen is too narrow for a 34px headline and an excerpt. This applies only to the Default split — if you have chosen Layout 1 or Layout 2 the card is already stacked and keeps the order you picked all the way down.

Both are switches. Show Author removes the avatar chip and the name together; Show Date removes the dated line under it. With the date on, Show Human Diff Time turns it into “two days ago”, a second switch abbreviates that, and Show Time appends the clock time for anything published to a schedule.

You can hand-pick them, but not order them by hand. Setting Source to Manual Selection and searching for individual posts limits the list to exactly those items; they are then still sorted by whatever Order By says, so a hand-picked set comes back newest-first rather than in the order you added them. Use Menu Order if you need a fixed sequence you control.

Large is the default and the right starting point, because at fifty-fifty the image occupies roughly half the content width — Medium will look soft on a wide screen. The Image Size list offers every size registered in WordPress up to 2048×2048 and Full, and posts with no featured image draw Elementor’s placeholder rather than collapsing the row.

Scale. The Mate List gives each post a wide row with a half-width image, a 34px headline and an author photo; the Post List packs posts into a compact two-column run with a fixed 156px thumbnail beside the text. Choose the Mate List for a main blog index and the Post List for a sidebar or a footer block. Neither needs Elementor Pro.