Punit Patel

The Category Posts Shortcode plugin allows you to easily display a list of posts within a specified category on your WordPress website. The plugin adds a new shortcode that can be used within your posts, pages, or widgets. The list of posts is styled to be visually appealing and responsive for various screen sizes.
To use the shortcode, simply add the following to your WordPress page or post editor, replacing “your-category-slug” with the desired category slug:
[category_posts category=”your-category-slug”]
For Multiple Categories:
[category_posts category=”uncategorized”] 
[category_posts category=”blog”]

Category Posts Shortcode

A simple plugin that adds a shortcode to display posts from a specified category.

MrXHellboy

This WordPress plugin (widget) will be shown when visitors are viewing a single post, category page or both. Otherwise, it wont be there at all. 
The widget contains a list of post titles from the same category(s) the visitor is viewing the post from, so the visitor is able to swiftly change posts by clicking on the titles shown. 
Posts published in multiple categories are taken care of just fine. I’ve introduced a new feature in version 1.6 which gives you the possibility to show all the categories the post has been published in or the category where the visitor has been spotted the last time(uses cookie).
The widget can be controlled with the following widget options:
<ul>
<li>Title (before the category name(s))</li>
<li>Exclude category(s) by ID</li>
<li>Exclude categories on: Single, Category, Both, None</li>
<li>Sticky posts on top: Yes | No</li>
<li>Show posts from year: a specific year or all years</li>
<li>Show widget on: categories | single posts | both</li>
<li>Show category title(s): Yes | No</li>
<li>Post has multiple categories – what now: Show all categories | Show the last category viewed</li>
<li>Show how many posts</li>
<li>Single posts view – Order: DESC | ASC</li>
<li>Single post view – Orderby: Author | Category | Date | ID | Random</li>
<li>Category view – Order:?DESC | ASC</li>
<li>Category view – Orderby: Author | Category | Date | ID | Random</li>
<li>Remove/Keep child categories</li>
</ul>
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Category Content

This Wordpress plugin (widget) will be shown when visitors are viewing a single post, category page or both. Otherwise, it wont be there at all.

Category Posts Shortcode vs Category Content