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Timeline – Tell Your Story Through Events and Milestones

Create stunning vertical or horizontal timelines to showcase stories, events, milestones, and memories on any WordPress site – no coding needed.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version2.0.3
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update27 Oct 20266d ago
Active installations2K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.3 / 5 from 6 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Timeline – Tell Your Story Through Events and Milestones version 2.0.3 as active, updated 6d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Turn your history, roadmap, or event schedule into a beautiful interactive timeline visitors can follow at a glance – no code required.

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Timeline is a WordPress timeline plugin that helps you present events, milestones, and stories in an organized visual layout. Create vertical or horizontal timelines, customize their settings, and embed them in your website using shortcodes.

Whether you want to share your company’s journey, display a project roadmap, present an event schedule, or highlight personal milestones, Timeline helps visitors follow your story at a glance.

Why Use Timeline?

Timeline makes it effortless to create responsive, customizable, and interactive timelines that fit perfectly inside posts, pages, and widgets. Whether you’re displaying a personal journey, company history, project milestones, or event schedules, Timeline gives you complete visual storytelling freedom.

The plugin offers vertical and horizontal layouts, supports start alignment, custom HTML titles, and includes a powerful shortcode generator for quick embedding. Choose the layout you like, add timeline items, customize the visuals – and publish. No hassle.

No technical knowledge required.

Free Features

  • Vertical & Horizontal Layouts: Switch between vertical and horizontal timelines with a single click.
  • Start Index Control: Choose whether your timeline begins from the left, right, top, or bottom.
  • Visible Item Limit (Horizontal): Select how many items appear at once for better usability.
  • HTML Support in Timeline Titles: Add icons, bold text, or any HTML tags inside your titles.
  • Responsive & Mobile Friendly: Timelines automatically adapt to all screen sizes.
  • Shortcode Generator: Quickly embed a timeline anywhere using a shortcode.
  • Lightweight & Fast: Clean code, optimized performance, and minimal footprint.

Timeline Pro Features

Upgrade to Timeline Pro for advanced timeline layouts, Gutenberg blocks, themes, animations, and dynamic content.

Pro Features

  • 35+ Ready-Made Templates: Start with pre-designed timeline layouts.
  • Eight Extra Themes: Access Eight more professionally designed themes, some themes supporting both horizontal and vertical layouts.
  • Classic Editor for Descriptions: Edit timeline descriptions beautifully with the integrated classic editor, providing advanced formatting options.
  • Customizable Icons: Add unique icons to your timeline items and style them to create a polished, professional look.
  • Enhanced Customization Options: Fine-tune every aspect of your timeline for ultimate design control.
  • Animation: Add animation to your timeline items.
  • Dynamic Post Timeline Block: Build automated timelines dynamically from any WordPress post type, filtered by taxonomy terms and author.
  • Accordion Timeline Block: Group collapsible timeline steps with custom status markers, icon choices, and smooth interactive expand/collapse toggles.
  • Company History Timeline Block: Feature a spotlit year card with a clickable year rail and optional auto-slide carousel navigation.
  • Career Timeline Block: Showcase work experience, education, and career achievements with specialized timeline layouts.
  • Media Story Timeline Block: Display rich media stories combining images, video highlights, and narrative timelines.
  • Event Schedule Block: Present event agendas, schedules, and multi-track session timelines clearly.
  • Roadmap Timeline Block: Organize product releases, project phases, and strategic milestones into clean roadmap views.
  • Year Navigator Block: Navigate historical timelines effortlessly year-by-year.
  • AI Content Generator: Generate timeline items, titles, and descriptions instantly using integrated AI tools.
  • Load More Feature: Add a customizable Load More button with initial item counts, per-click reveal limits, and custom styling.
  • Add Shortcode API: Embed timelines anywhere using a powerful shortcode system.
  • Slideshow Timeline Block: Create slideshow timelines with autoplay and navigation controls.
  • History Slider: Create history timeline slider with autoplay and navigation controls.
  • Story Slider: Create story timeline slider with autoplay and navigation controls.

👉 Upgrade to PRO

Gutenberg and Dynamic Content

Gutenberg Timeline Block: Build and customize timelines inside the WordPress Block Editor. Dynamic Post Timeline: Generate timelines from WordPress post types, including custom post types, with supported taxonomy, term, and author filters.

Shortcode Support: Embed supported timelines in different areas of your website.

Timeline Use Cases

Company History

Show company milestones, growth, important dates, and achievements.

Project Roadmap

Display product releases, development phases, project milestones, and future plans.

Event Schedule

Present conferences, meetings, workshops, sessions, and event agendas.

Personal Timeline

Create a visual biography, life story, career journey, or personal milestones timeline.

Career Timeline

Show education, employment history, professional achievements, and career progression.

Product Timeline

Display product development, releases, updates, and product evolution.

Educational Timeline

Organize lessons, course chapters, academic milestones, and learning progress.

Portfolio Timeline

Show design processes, development stages, project history, and creative work.

🎯 How to Use Timeline – Quick Start Guide

  • Install and activate the plugin
  • Go to → Timeline → Add New
  • Configure your timeline settings
  • Copy the generated shortcode
  • Paste it inside any post, page, or widget

That’s it — your timeline is live!

How to Create a Timeline with Gutenberg

The Pro version includes a Gutenberg Timeline block.

  • Install and activate Timeline Pro.
  • Open a post or page in the WordPress Block Editor.
  • Click the + button.
  • Search for Timeline.
  • Add the Timeline block.
  • Add your timeline content.
  • Customize the available layout and styling options.
  • Publish or update the page.

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WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • horizontal timeline
  • vertical timeline
  • roadmap
  • storytelling
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Update activity27 Oct 20266d ago

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WordPress compatibility7.1.37.1.4
WordPress compatibility7.1.27.1.3
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.2
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