springthistle

This plugin is useful if you are using lots of posts in a variety of ways on your website, i.e. not just on your homepage and not just separated out by categories. For example, You may have a blog with lots of information on upcoming events and lots of announcements. You have a variety of people who come to your blog looking for different information, and it’s hard for them to filter through everything. You can have a “Cats” page on which you talk about your stance on cats, and use <code>[ahs_callposts]</code> to also call in a list of posts in the “cats” category, perhaps only the most recent 10, perhaps just titles, perhaps displaying just excerpts, perhaps displaying an image for each post. Then have a separate page for the “dogs” category. Etc!
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Specify category</li>
<li>Specify number of posts</li>
<li>Specify content style</li>
<li>Specify random order</li>
<li>Specify multiple columns</li>
<li>Create your own template (NEW as of 2.0)</li>
<li>… and more</li>
<li>Choose global default settings that can be overridden for any individual instance of the shortcode.</li>
</ul>

April's Call Posts

Via shortcode, lets you call in a list of posts that are filtered, ordered, and displayed based on criteria you provide.

RustyBadRobot

The Display Pages Shortcode was written to allow users to easily display listings of pages without knowing PHP or editing template files, it is based heavily on the [display-posts] shortcode by Bill Erickson.
Add the shortcode in a post or page, and use the arguments to query based on tag, id, post type, and many other possibilities (see the Arguments). I’ve also added some extra options to display something more than just the title: include_date, include_excerpt, and image_size.
See the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for information on using the arguments.
<a href="https://github.com/RustyBadRobot/display-pages-shortcode/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="http://widgetmedia.co/display-pages-shortcode-examples/" rel="nofollow ugc">Examples</a>

Display Pages Shortcode

Display a listing of pages using the [display-pages] shortcode.

April's Call Posts vs Display Pages Shortcode