Portfolio Inertia

The Portfolio Inertia widget allows you to display portfolio projects in an interactive grid layout enhanced with smooth inertia-based hover animations. When users move their cursor over portfolio items, the images react with motion and subtle rotation effects, creating a dynamic and engaging browsing experience.

This widget is ideal for modern portfolios and creative showcases where interactive motion helps highlight projects while maintaining full control over portfolio queries, layout elements, and styling options.

Widget Controls

The widget settings are divided into several sections inside the Content tab in Elementor

1. General Section

• Extra Class: Add a custom CSS class for additional styling or advanced customization.

2. Query Section

• Post per Page: Control number of posts to display per page.
• Excerpt Length: Controls how many words are displayed in the portfolio excerpt.
• Author: Filter portfolio items by selecting specific authors.
• Categories: Select categories to include in the portfolio inertia.
• Exclude Categories: Select categories that should not appear in the portfolio inertia.
• Include Posts: Manually select specific portfolio posts to display.
• Exclude Posts: Remove selected posts from the inertia.
• Order By: Sort portfolio items by ID, title, date, or other available options.
• Order: Choose ascending or descending order.

3. Layout Section

• Post Items: Drag-and-drop layout builder to enable or disable portfolio elements such as feature image, title, excerpt, read more button, categories, tags, and author.
• Post Overlay Items Options: Enable or disable elements that appear in the overlay when hovering over an portfolio item.
• Post Overlay Items: Configure which elements appear inside the overlay.
• Top Meta: Configure metadata displayed above the portfolio content such as categories, author, or date.
• Bottom Meta: Configure metadata displayed below the portfolio content.
• Post Heading Tag: Choose the HTML heading tag used for portfolio titles (H1–H6).

4. Read More Section

• Read More Text: Customize the label of the read more button.
• Icon: Add an icon to the read more button.
• Icon Position: Choose whether the icon appears before or after the text.
• Icon Spacing: Adjust the spacing between the icon and the button text.

5. Image Section

• Thumbnail: Choose the image size used for portfolio thumbnails.

6. Inertia Effects

• Motion Intensity: Controls how far the image slides on mouse-enter. Higher = more dramatic effect..
• Max Rotation: Maximum random rotation angle on hover wobble.
• Animation Speed: Time-scale multiplier for the inertia animation. Higher = faster.
• Wobble Duration (s): Duration of the hover wobble effect in seconds.
• Disable Inertia Effect in Mobile. ( below 768 ): Disable inertia effect for mobile devices.

Styling Options​

All visual elements of the Portfolio Inertia widget can be customized through Elementor’s Style tab.

• Typography for portfolio titles and metadata
• Grid spacing and alignment
• Image borders, padding, and spacing
• Overlay background colors and hover effects
• Button styles including background, border, and typography
• Overlay icon styles and animations

Summary

The Portfolio Inertia widget adds a modern interactive effect to portfolio grids by introducing motion-based hover animations.

• Dynamic portfolio queries
• Grid-based portfolio layout
• Drag-and-drop layout configuration
• Smooth inertia hover animations
• Support for images and video media
• Full styling customization through Elementor

This widget is ideal for creative portfolios, agency websites, and modern project showcases where subtle motion enhances the visual presentation of portfolio items.