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.

Bill Erickson

This plugin extends <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode" rel="ugc">Display Posts</a> by letting you break your content down by month or year. You can use all of the <a href="https://displayposts.com/docs/parameters/" rel="nofollow ugc">Display Posts parameters</a> to customize the query.
Month Listing
<pre><code>[display-posts display_by_month="true" posts_per_page="999" title="Posts by Month"]
</code></pre>
Use the <code>display_by_month</code> parameter to break it down by month. To list all your content, use a high <code>posts_per_page</code>, like 999. You can also add an optional <code>title</code> to appear above the listing.
Year Listing
<pre><code>[display-posts display_by_year="true" posts_per_page="999" title"Posts by Year"]
</code></pre>
Use the <code>display_by_month</code> parameter to break it down by year. To list all your content, use a high <code>posts_per_page</code>, like 999. You can also add an optional <code>title</code> to appear above the listing.
Filters
If you’re a developer, you can use the following filters to customize the markup:
<ul>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_heading_tag</code> – The heading tag used for date headings. Default is h4.</li>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_heading_class</code> – The class added to the heading tag. Default is .display-posts-date.</li>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_month_format</code> – The date format used for month headings. Default is ‘F Y’.</li>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_year_format</code> – The date format used for year headings. Default is ‘Y’.</li>
</ul>

Display Posts – Date View

List your content broken down by month or year. This is an extension of the Display Posts plugin.

April's Call Posts vs Display Posts – Date View