An interactive timeline for Elementor: dated milestones down a vertical spine, for company history, roadmaps and case studies.
Every flight-qualified board Meridian ships still starts on the same bench in Tacoma. Scroll the spine — the node lights as each chapter reaches the centre of the screen.
A working pottery in Somerset, writing down what it learns. No cards, no shadows — the spine and the type do all of it.
Nothing here is a promise, and everything here has an owner. Shipped items keep their notes; planned items take comments until the week they start.
Harborline Studio runs the same five stages on every engagement. The dates are real, the photographs are from the room, and nothing here is compressed for the pitch deck.
The same timeline, fed by a WordPress query instead of a repeater — five most recent posts, featured image, trimmed excerpt and a permalink button. Nothing here was typed by hand.
A five-person furniture shop in Vermont. The timeline is mirrored to the right edge, the connectors are off, and the rows sit tight — the same widget, dressed down to almost nothing.
Every reveal effect switched off on purpose. No fade, no flip — the board just is, the way a real one is when you walk up to it at midnight.
A natural-dye textile studio working one season at a time. The spine is mirrored to the right, so it reads back toward the page rather than away from it.
No cards at all — the entries sit directly on a drawn grid, and hovering one dims the rest. Everything holding this together is a control, including the grid.
Last variation, and the quietest: the date is dialled up to fifty-four pixels and becomes the display type, while the title drops to small caps under it. Same widget, inverted hierarchy.
Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.
Read the documentation for this one, or write to us — a human answers inside a business day.
Yes — a Data Source control switches between the two. The Interactive Timeline widget in Sky Addons for Elementor either takes entries you write by hand, each with a date, title, text and media, or pulls posts, pages and custom post types straight from a query you build in the panel.
Nearly everything a query offers. The Sky Addons Interactive Timeline filters by post type or manual selection, includes or excludes by author and by term, sets a limit and an offset, narrows to today, this week, month, quarter, year or an exact date range, and orders by date, title, author, comment count, menu order or at random.
Yes. The Alignment control in the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline offers alternating sides, everything left, or everything right, and whichever you choose it collapses to a single side on a phone — because two columns of cards either side of a spine are unreadable at 390px.
Yes, that is the interactive part. The spine in the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline has a track and a separate progress fill that grows in step with the section travelling through the viewport, so the coloured portion always marks how far down the story the reader has come. The fill is a gradient by default.
Six, including none. Entries in the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline can fade, slide up, slide in from their own side, zoom or flip as they reach the viewport, with flip set as the default and a Reveal Duration in milliseconds controlling the pace of whichever you pick.
Yes, and it is on out of the box. Click to Focus in the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline smoothly scrolls the clicked entry to the vertical centre of the screen rather than jumping to it, which keeps the surrounding milestones in view and makes a long roadmap navigable.
Yes — Hover Spotlight, on by default. Hovering any entry in the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline fades the rest back so the one under the cursor stands out. It pairs well with a dense company history where a dozen cards would otherwise compete for attention.
No. The Interactive Timeline is a Sky Addons Pro widget and its built-in entry card needs nothing beyond free Elementor. The one optional exception is the Loop Template field, which renders each post through an Elementor loop template if you already have one — leave it empty and the built-in card is used.
Yes. A hand-written entry in the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline holds a date, a title, body text, either an icon or an image, and a link with its own button label. Nothing is compulsory, so a bare date-and-title milestone sits happily between two fully illustrated ones.
Twenty words by default, and you set the number. The Sky Addons Interactive Timeline trims each excerpt to a word count you choose, with zero meaning no limit at all, and separate switches for whether the featured image and the read-more button appear — the button label being yours to write.
It degrades cleanly rather than disappearing. If the animation library is unavailable, the Sky Addons Interactive Timeline shows every entry in place and draws the spine as complete, so a visitor sees the full history instead of a blank column waiting for a reveal that never arrives.
All three, separately. The Sky Addons Interactive Timeline sets spine thickness with independent track and fill styling, node size, its background, its ring colour and the colour it takes when active, plus the gap from node to card and a switch for the short connector line between them.
