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.

Ulrich Sossou

Justin Ahinon

Saymar90

<p>The Loops plugin offers you great flexibility for displaying your site<br />
content and users list. It provides a graphical user interface in your<br />
WordPress site admin that allows you to query the database for content<br />
without having to write any PHP code or SQL queries.</p>
<p>With this plugin, you can display the queried content in a page or post<br />
(using shortcodes) or a widget.</p>
<p><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sorich87/#content-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out my other free<br />
plugins.</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with any theme without modification</li>
<li>Works with any ‘custom post types’ plugin</li>
<li>Display list of posts and users with all the possibilities offered by<br />
WordPress</li>
<li>Custom templates</li>
<li>Display the loops anywhere with a shortcode or a widget</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contributors</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/sorich87/the-loops/contributors" rel="nofollow ugc">Contributors are listed<br />
here</a></p>
<h4>Notes</h4>
<p>For feature request and bug reports, <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/the-loop?forum_id=10#postform" rel="ugc">please use the<br />
forums</a>.</p>
<p>If you are a plugin developer, <a href="https://github.com/sorich87/the-loops" rel="nofollow ugc">we would like to hear from<br />
you</a>. Any contribution would be<br />
very welcome.</p>


The Loops

Like Drupal Views but for WordPress, The Loops allows you to query the database for content and display it in a page without having to write php code.

April's Call Posts vs The Loops