ibnuyahya

This plugin allow you to display post list in your page or post by using shortcode.
<ul>
<li>Author: ibnuyahya</li>
<li>Author URI: <a href="http://www.ibnuyahya.com" title="developers note" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.ibnuyahya.com</a></li>
<li>Copyright: Released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to use</h3>
just put this shortcode in your post or pages
[cat totalposts=”3″ category=”1,3″ thumbnail=”true” excerpt=”true” ]
<ul>
<li>totalposts – your total number of post to display. default is -1</li>
<li>category – category id. use comma , for multiple id</li>
<li>thumbnail – set true if you want to display thumbnail. default is false</li>
<li>date – set true if you want to display post date. default is false. Uses format set in WordPress Settings > General > Date Format</li>
<li>excerpt – set true if you want to display excertp. default is true</li>
<li>orderby – your post will order by . default post_date . check https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts for detail</li>
</ul>
thumbnail 
* create custom field key as thumbnail-url and put your thumbnail url in the value area
style at your own 
* you need to style your category-post-shortcode plugin in your style.css example
.cat-post{ 
 width:100%; 
} 
.cat-post-list{ 
 display: block; 
 margin-bottom: 20px; 
 position: relative;
} 
.cat-post-images{ 
 float:left; 
 width:140px; 
 display:block; 
}
.cat-content{ 
 width:350px; 
 float:right; 
} 
.cat-post-title{ 
 display: block; 
 width:100%; 
} 
.cat-post-date{ 
 display: block; 
 width:100%; 
} 
.cat-clear{ 
 clear:both; 
}
<ol>
<li>more info or sample, please visit http://ibnuyahya.com/wordpress-plugins/category-post-shortcode</li>
</ol>

Category Post Shortcode

This plugin is to display post by category in your page/post

Automattic

Gary Jones

Mohammad Jangda

Josh Betz

nickdaugherty

Jeff Bowen

Bradford Campeau-Laurion

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pkevan

This plugin is designed to help you curate your content. It lets you assign and order stories within zones that you create, edit, and delete, and display those groupings of related stories on your site.
This plugin was originally built by <a href="http://digitalize.ca" rel="nofollow ugc">Mohammad Jangda</a> in conjunction with <a href="http://wpdavis.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">William Davis</a> and the <a href="http://www.bangordailynews.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bangor Daily News</a>.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add, edit, and delete zones.</li>
<li>Add and remove posts (or any custom post type) to or from zones.</li>
<li>Order posts in any given zone.</li>
<li>Limit capabilities on who can add, edit, and delete zones vs add content to zones.</li>
<li>Locking mechanism, so only one user can edit a zone at a time (to avoid conflicts).</li>
<li>Idle control, so people can’t keep the zone locked.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Function Reference</h3>
Get an array of all zones:
<pre><code>z_get_zones()
</code></pre>
Get a single zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_zone( $zone )
</code></pre>
Get an array of ordered posts in a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_posts_in_zone( $zone )
</code></pre>
Get a WP_Query object for a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_zone_query( $zone );
</code></pre>
More functions listed in <code>functions.php</code>.

Zone Manager (Zoninator)

Content curation made easy! Create "zones" then add and order your content!

Category Post Shortcode vs Zone Manager (Zoninator)