edeneye

Breaking Bar is a simple plugin which monitors any chosen category for posts. If there are posts in that category, 
the plugin displays (via the [breaking-bar] shortcode) a prominent bar with the latest post from that category. 
If there are no posts in the chosen category, Breaking Bar stays hidden. Once the shortcode is in place, this allows 
editors and authors to add posts to the Breaking Bar simply by properly categorizing the post.
Current options include:
<ul>
<li>Category selection</li>
<li>A text field for a custom label, (e.g. “Breaking” or “Latest”)</li>
<li>Color options for background, label(text) and link</li>
</ul>

Breaking Bar

A simple breaking news bar that monitors a chosen category and is displayed via a shortcode.

flomei

Sometimes you want to point your visitors/readers on other posts covering a specific topic.
You can either have this coded the hard way in your theme or use a plugin which will always show related articles, but what if you only want this to happen sometimes?
This plugin gives you a shortcode to insert in posts where you want to display a number of related posts. They will be shown with headline and date (optional) and can be styled via CSS.
<h3>Donations</h3>
If you find this plugin to be very useful it would be really kind if you donate a few bucks via PayPal (zahlungen@flomei.de).
Otherwise I really appreciate if you simply spread the word about this plugin or link back to www.flomei.de. 🙂

Show articles by keyword

This plugin adds a shortcode so you can show related articles based on a keyword with no effort.

Breaking Bar vs Show articles by keyword