Diana van de Laarschot

The default custom menu in WordPress only allows adding a link that leads to a list of posts and pages belonging to a taxonomy (category, tag, etc). If you want to list the posts and pages themselves and if you want WordPress to do this automatically for you, then I hope you will find this plugin useful.
Also works for custom taxonomies and custom post types 
NEW: CPCM V3 now provides support for Full Site Editing with the Gutenberg Block Editor 
WARNING: Coming from version 1.x? There are breaking changes, read the changelog before upgrading.
<h4>Using it</h4>
Enable the plugin and go to either Appearance > Menus or Appearance > Customize or Appearance > Editor. Add a category (or other taxonomy like tag or custom) to the menu. Next, you can choose if you would like to replace the category by the posts or pages themselves.
For each Category in your menu, you now have the following extra configuration options:
<ul>
<li>Replace by posts in the category y/n; </li>
<li>specify the (maximum) number of posts you want to show for this item (max 10);</li>
<li>their ordering ascending or descending by Title, Date or Menu Order;</li>
<li>specify the title for the menu items. For this you can use %post_title, %post_author and other wildcards, see ‘Other Notes > Wildcards’. Default value: %post_title</li>
</ul>
<h4>Wildcards</h4>
You can control the title of the menu items generated by the plug-in with the following wildcards:
<ul>
<li>%post_title</li>
<li>%post_author</li>
<li>%post_date for the unformatted post date: 2012-11-10 18:14:23</li>
<li>%post_date() for a formatted post date with the following default formatting: November 10th, 2012</li>
<li>%post_date(<your formatting here>) for custom date formatting. Example: %post_date(l jS \of F Y, h:i:s A). See <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time" rel="nofollow ugc">https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time</a> for formatting options.</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt()</li>
<li>%post_date_gmt(<your formatting here>)</li>
</ul>

Category Posts in Custom Menu

Dynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.

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Ghost Tags. An Animating Tag Cloud Widget!
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Download Premium version that allows you to set the amount of Tags shown – with support: http://nrcstudios.info/index.php/ghost-tags
Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.
<ul>
<li>Use web fonts to set alternating font-styles for each tag.</li>
<li>Adds spice to your otherwise not so spicy blog.</li>
<li>Displays all used or associated Tags on your site.</li>
<li>Cycles through all tags in an alternating carousel motion.</li>
<li>Clickable links to search terms in cloud.</li>
</ul>
View Demo: http://ghostcloud.nrcstudios.info
Download Premium version that allows you to set the amount of Tags shown – with support: http://nrcstudios.info/index.php/ghost-tags
Update 3-5-2012: jQuery script loading changed to fix conflict issues.
Please consider a donation if you use this free widget http://nrcstudios.info. 
-Thank You
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
<h3>Loading jQuery before plugins</h3>
The correct way to load jQuery into your theme is to load it prior to all plugins being loaded. Having said this know that the plugin loads jQuery seperately in case your theme is not set to load jQuery. To load jQuery from the theme instead of the plugin do the following changes to your theme and plugin files.
Step One: Open your themes functions.php file and add the following code anywhere on the page: 
if( !is_admin()){ 
wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’); 
wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”), false, ‘1.7.1’); 
wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’); 
}
Step Two: Open the ghost-tags.php file and comment out or delete the echo script line on line 19 by adding two backslashes before it (“//”))
// echo “<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js’></script> ” ;
*Step Three: Upload the saved files to your server.
This will load jQuery into your theme before any plugins get loaded on the page thus eliminating the need for each plugin to load jQuery. 
When each plugin loads different versions of jQuery on the page this creates compatability issues and will cause your plugins to not work correctly. I seriously suggest the users of FlickrShow to use this method of including jQuery on the page.

Category Posts in Custom Menu vs Ghost Tags