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Want to showcase your company history or life story on your website?

If you are also among the people who wanted to show their struggle story in a beautiful timeline. Then you are at the right place do not pay developers a huge amount of money if you can do this task easily with a few clicks. Welcome to a cool Timeline, this is the world’s best Plugin to show your brand’s growth and create attractive timelines to display on your website. You can also check out the demo timeline here.

Why Cool Timeline?

There are many plugins for this task, but the cool timeline is one of the advanced plugins to show story timelines in a responsive horizontal or vertical chronological order. Cool Timeline lets you display text on your timeline, but also insert images, videos, and even custom HTML, clickable links, and many more. This plugin allows you to display as many stories as you want to show on a single page.
Most importantly, It has Shortcode Generator which makes your work easier. You can easily copy and paste the shortcode, no matter wherever you paste the shortcode on the page or in the post, it works anywhere on your website to display your stories without disturbing your website’s performance.

Cool timeline is a:

1.Responsive plugin: Cool Timeline plugin is a responsive plugin which means it can be used on any device you want without any effect on its appearance and performance.

2.Easy customization: This plugin is easy to use, modify and customize Timelines.

3.Clean Timeline: Cool Timeline is used to display both horizontal and vertical Timelines.

Creating a timeline using Cool Timeline Plugin:

Once the plugin is installed and activated, we will go to Timeline stories >> Add new from here you can name the timeline, and start adding media information to it

Choose a specific date and time for your timeline from the calendar here we choose 1 January 2020.

This plugin comes with 5 layouts vertical, horizontal, compact etc. You can do each and every task using these options.

We have created our first story and lets now see how our story looks like.

Here we have just created a simple timeline story, but there are many more uses of this plugin. We can add animations choose a design, and many more.

Now let’s Add an image to our story.

To add image to a story we have to set featured image which will get display on the story.

Go to Timeline stories >> All stories >> Set featured image

This will display a image as a story in the timeline. Here I have choosed cool Timeline Logo to display.

By this way we set an image in cool Timeline story.

When communicating with customers, showing brands past is a good way to create a connection between customer and company. Cool timeline helps you create this connection by displaying your brand’s past in an attractive story timeline which will display on your website.

In our previous article, we have introduced the timeline and mentioned a few proven scenarios where creating a timeline on a website is more viewer engaging than creating an ordinary article. If a google search has dropped you here and you are unsure about what the timeline is and where you can use it. I encourage you to read the previous article first from here.

Now, let’s talk about some of the plugins we can use to create such beautiful timelines we already talked on our previous article. There are many plugins to create a beautiful timelines and every plugin has something unique to offer than the rest of the available plugins. We are going to cover few of such plugins and specifically tells you about their unique features which makes them different from others.

So, let’s starts with one of the cool plugins available in wordpress.org

Cool Timeline

Cool Timeline is one of the most downloaded timeline plugin in the wordpress.org. This plugin is actively trusted by more than 10K users and has more than 200K all-time downloads. There are four different layouts you can choose from to create a timeline and have smooth animation to make your content looks more interesting.

The WordPress itself has improved so much from its first release and that advancement bought us, Gutenberg. Well, the best part of the cool timeline is that its developers keep their users up-to-date with the technology. You can find a Gutenberg instant builder to create a timeline with a few clicks. You can check these Gutenberg specific demos to know more about it. But supporting the Gutenberg doesn’t mean that the famous classic editor is left behind the scene. The Cool Timeline still supports the Classic editor and you can use the shortcode builder in the classic editor to add a timeline on any post or page. The plugin also has a premium version packed with much-advanced functionality. The premium version; Cool Timeline Pro has already impressed more than 6K people on codecanyon.net. You may want to check that out too on codecanyon.net

Timeline Widget Addon for Elementor

As its name indicates, the Timeline Widget Addon for Elementor is actually an addon plugin for Elementor. It lets you create timelines while checking the preview at the same time. Updating the timeline preview in real-time enables you to create the best ever looking timeline without switching the page. The plugin already has different layouts you can select and different combinations of colour let you create a unique timeline every time for your website. If you have already setup your website with Elementor, installing Timeline Widget Addon for Elementor is the only thing you need to create a timeline. You can check here all the demos for Timeline Widget Addon for Elementor.

Creating a user engaging content is a must for any blogging website but even if you are not running a blogging website, you may still want to show your company’s achievements or history in a cool and appealing way.

Displaying your website’s content in a timeline is one of the most appealing way these days. Before we get into all the technical stuff of creating the timeline, let’s consider some example where creating a timeline is more appealing than the regular blog content.

• A history of a company: Creating a Timeline to showcase the company’s history is much more attractive and readable than the regular essay type of content. Anyone will consider gazing over a vertical timeline that showcases the achievements and milestones of a company in chronological order than reading a lengthy post.
• Official Workflow: Every company has a specific workflow for how they operate and do all their daily stuff. Creating a point-to-point or step-by-step guide is a story of old age. Timeline is a modern way of displaying regular stuff in more stylish ways. Not only the official workflow but even creating a project workflow in a timeline is more appealing than the regular post.
• Team Members: I’m sure you already get an idea. There are already plugins out there for showcasing team members but a timeline representation of the team members not only showcase the members itself but it is useful in showing the hierarchy of the team.
• Event Planning:

the list can goes on and on…

There are dozens of reasons you can find to create a timeline instead of a regular post. I’m sure you’ll find more than one reason, why you should create a timeline. If you have already decided to create a timeline, let me guide you step-by-step to create a timeline with the minimal configuration in no time.

Plugin Name: Timeline Builder Pro.
Difficulty Level: None.

Now, we’ll create a timeline to understand its working. We are going to create a timeline about project workflow. Just follow along me and you are good to go.

I am assuming that you have already downloaded and activated the plugin on your WordPress website. As soon as the Timeline Builder Pro is activated on your WordPress site, you’ll see a menu “Timeline Addon” menu in the WordPress admin menu bar.

Navigate To the Timeline Addons > Timeline Builder and you’ll land on a page where all your timelines will be listed. This page does not contain any timeline as we just did a fresh installation of the plugin. (Fig 1)

Click on the button “Add New Timeline” button to create a new timeline and it will add a new timeline post and navigate you to the newly created timeline post. As you can see (fig 2) a new timeline is created and we have given it a title: Project Workflow. Obviously, you can give any name to your timeline that you like.

As it’s visible in the screenshot, timeline builder pro plugin has added some default stories for you with some random content. You must change this to something more useful for your website.

Let’s take a quick look to all the required stuff we should change or add.

Title: This is the title of your story, each should have a unique title according to the story. Let’s change this to:- Initial Discussion.
The title can be long but just don’t make it too long that it took away the overall grace of the timeline design.

Description: You can add descriptive content here. For example: while creating a project workflow, you can write about the steps in details here. For the sake of this tutorial, just add the following lines in the description:- Discuss the project requirement with the client and finalize all terms and conditions. The discussion field has a rich text box. You can actually format all the text or add HTML content here. This field actually allows you to add as much text as you want but here is my advice for creating a good timeline; keep it short and simple.

Primary Label: You can think of it as a small section in a chapter you would like to highlight. For a project with deadlines, you probably write the date of starting the project here. Let’s change this to:- 1 Jan.

Sub Label: Sublabel is more like a subheading. Just change this to:- 2021 and move ahead.

Choose Media Type: Each story contains media. There are three options available to add media. A media can be an image, a youtube video link or an image slider. We are going to add an image of handshake here by selecting media type as image and upload the image by clicking on the button upload. This is straight forward I guess, this is same as uploading a featured image in the WordPress post.

Now click on the Layouts tab at the top bar and this will brings the layout related option. We are not going to keep the layout and design as the default selection which is ‘Both Sided’ layout and ‘default’ design. Just reach to the ‘timeline animation ‘option and we’ll change this to ‘flip-up’. if you don’t see this option, you might have changed the layout to something else. Only a few layouts have this option so you may want to change it back to the both-sided or one-sided layout.

Everything is straight forward right? Now change to another tab by clicking over the ‘General / Design’ tab at the top bar. You’ll see a lot of typography and colour settings. The different combination of these settings can change the overall colour theme of each timeline. We’ll be changing the ‘Label’s Background Color‘ to red and ‘Timeline Midline Color’ to blue in a lighter shade. You may need to scroll a little bit to find this option below. You may want to change the other settings to find the best colour theme for your timeline.

We only have added a single story and you actually have to repeat these steps for other stories too. But for now, just hit the ‘Publish’ button to publish this timeline and add this timeline on any page by using the shortcode provided in the ‘Shortcode’ sidebar widget. You can also use the ‘Preview Changes’ button to preview the timeline on the front end without using it on your website right now. Let’s have a look at our timeline on frontend:-

See, how super easy it is to create a timeline using the Timeline Builder Pro plugin by coolplugins.net. Now before you do a google search for all the available (other) plugins to create a timeline, let’s see why should you consider using the Timeline Builder Pro plugin.

1. Easy to setup: The Timeline Builder Pro is super easy to use and creating a timeline requires the time you takes to create the content. A timeline can be created as quickly as you can be ready with the content to publish. In a nutshell, creating a timeline with Timeline Builder Pro is similar to creating a post in WordPress. It’s easy and it’s fun.
2. Easy to customize: It only takes a few clicks to customize everything and its all optional. You can decide what you want to change and what you want to keep as default. The customization settings are created in such a way that a beginner with zero experience can configure the timeline like a pro.
3. Advanced Design: Most of the timeline plugin only has simple timeline designs. The Timeline Builder Pro plugin is equipped with advanced layout with multiple designs and it only takes few clicks to change the design. The plugin keeps updating with new designs and as soon as you’ll change a design, everything looks fresh again.
4. The vast variety of combination: The timeline builder pro offer so many configurations to customize the timeline that you can create almost endless colour designs with different combinations. You can create multiple timelines with a different colour scheme. For example; you can create a timeline for your Christmas events with a Christmas theme.
5. Responsive designs: All the designs in the Timeline Builder Pro are responsive and it is the most important factor for any website. An advanced design is of no use if it’s not responsive for the different devices in use these days.

Final Words

There are a lots of themes and page designing plugins to make an appealing website but some content must stands out from the rest of the website. A history of the company, achievements, ongoing project and goals etc, are some of the few examples of the content that should standout and must be visible clearly to the visitors. There is a reasons why not all the stones in our ways aren’t consider as a milestones. A timeline is one of the best way to create a unique and appealing design for such milestones of your company. So next time when you want some content to be stands out from the rest, try the Timeline Builder Pro to create such a unique content. The best part of using this plugin is, its developed and supported by the experts and codecanyon’s elite author. The plugin is developed with the best coding standard implemented by the WordPress itself. So, if you are using a plugin like Timeline Builder Pro, you are always in good hands.