springthistle

<p>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!</p>
<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.

Justin Tadlock

<p><em>Template Tag Shortcodes</em> is a plugin that turns many of the WordPress <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags" title="WordPress template tags" rel="nofollow ugc">template tags</a> into easy-to-use shortcodes.</p>
<p>This plugin was created so end users could make use of the template tags within their posts and pages.  Currently, this plugin creates 40+ shortcodes for use.  Not all template tags are available as shortcodes, but you are more than welcome to request others be added.</p>
<p>See the FAQ or the included <code>readme.html</code> for a list of all available shortcodes.</p>
<h3>What are the parameters for each shortcode?</h3>
<p>There are several parameters for many shortcodes and none for others.  Each shortcode represents its equivalent template tag.  A list of the available parameters for each shortcode is included in the plugin’s <code>readme.html</code> file.</p>


Template Tag Shortcodes

A plugin that turns many of the WP template tags into shortcodes (40+ shortcodes).

April's Call Posts vs Template Tag Shortcodes