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.

Jeremy Herve

This plugin allows you to use the <code>jeherve_post_embed</code> shortcode to embed posts from your site or others’ anywhere on your site.
When creating the shortcode, you can use any of the 20 shortcode parameters to make sure the embed will include the posts you want to display, and will look the way you want it to look.
Important: You can only pull posts from 3 different types of sites:
<ul>
<li>WordPress.com sites.</li>
<li>Sites using the <a href="http://jetpack.me" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack</a> plugin, with the JSON API module.</li>
<li>Sites using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/" rel="ugc">REST API</a> plugin, by adding <code>wpapi="true"</code> to your shortcode parameters.</li>
</ul>
Questions, problems?
Take a look at the Installation and FAQ tabs here. If that doesn’t help, <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rest-api-post-embeds" rel="ugc">post in the support forums</a>.
Want to contribute with a patch?
<a href="https://github.com/jeherve/rest-api-post-embeds/" rel="nofollow ugc">Join me on GitHub!</a>

REST API Post Embeds

Embed posts from your site or others' into your posts and pages.

April's Call Posts vs REST API Post Embeds