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Daniel Floeter

Mrinal Roy

<p>Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category.</p>
<h4>Term and Category based Posts Widget</h4>
<p>A premium version of that free widget available at <a href="https://tiptoppress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">tiptoppress.com</a> created for big WordPress sites.</p>
<h4>Premium features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto-sizing Grid layout</li>
<li>Custom field support in the Template</li>
<li>Shortcode support in the Template</li>
<li>Image-Slider (or News-Ticker)</li>
<li>Asymmetrical list layouts</li>
<li>Full background images</li>
<li>Masonry responsive grid layout</li>
<li>More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …)</li>
<li>Custom Post Types, Events, Products support</li>
<li>All free features</li>
<li>E-Mail support</li>
<li>More examples on the <a href="https://demo.tiptoppress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo pages</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tiptoppress.com/template-arrange-post-details/" rel="nofollow ugc">Template</a> to arrange the post details.</li>
<li>The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons.</li>
<li>Font-icon support.</li>
<li>‘Load more’ button / Ajax API</li>
<li>Item Title heading level buttons</li>
<li>Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp)</li>
<li>Shortcode (Easily change all Shortcode options in the customizer).</li>
<li>Date range filter</li>
<li>New date format: Time since plublished</li>
<li>Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private.</li>
<li>Multiple shortcodes at the same site or post.</li>
<li>Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another).</li>
<li>Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode.</li>
<li>Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”.</li>
<li>For editing shortcode adds a Customizer link to the admin-bar (“With one click to the Customizer”).</li>
<li>Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit).</li>
<li>Fluid images (max-width in %).</li>
<li>One thumb dimension can be left empty.</li>
<li>Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail.</li>
<li>Set a default thumbnail.</li>
<li>Hide widget text or text, if there is no post.</li>
<li>Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail.</li>
<li>Option exclude current post.</li>
<li>Option show post author, comment’s count, post date.</li>
<li>Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes</li>
<li>Admin UI: Buttons to easy add post details placeholder.</li>
<li>Multi sites support.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full <a href="https://tiptoppress.com/category-posts-widget/documentation-4-9" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a></li>
<li>Shortcode: Use [catposts] in the content and <a href="https://tiptoppress.com/use-shortcode-to-add-category-posts-widget-to-the-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">edit in the customizer</a></li>
<li>Formatting date and time: See <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time" rel="nofollow ugc">Formatting Date and Time</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at<br />
<a href="https://github.com/DanielFloeter/category-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> (If possible with a pull request).</p>


Category Posts Widget

Very easy to customize the view, as a widget or shortcode. Utilizes the customizer to customize the shortcode display. Elegant.

Very useful and works perfect

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.

Taylor Lovett

<p>Show latest posts from specific categories in your sidebar. Simple, easy-to-use, and customizble.</p>
<p>Special Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose posts from up to three categories to display posts from</li>
<li>Optionally show post titles</li>
<li>Optionally show post bylines</li>
<li>A dashboard widget that displays WordPress blogging tips, SEO tricks, exclusive tutorials, SEO strategies, and more!</li>
<li>Show either the content, the excerpt, or the content with a limited number of characters</li>
<li>Limit the number of posts shown. Offset the posts that are shown</li>
<li><strong>Widget includes a style manager!</strong></li>
<li>Easily change the font size, font family, title font size, etc from within the widget.</li>
<li>This widget is reusable</li>
<li>Very easy to setup. <strong>Requires NO technical knowledge</strong> to install</li>
<li>Can be translated to multiple languages</li>
<li>Outputs <strong>clean, validated code</strong></li>
<li>Free Support via email</li>
</ul>
<p>Restrictions/Requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Works with WordPress 2.8.1+, WPMU, and BuddyPress (WordPress 3.0+ is highly recommended)</li>
<li>PHP 4 or 5</li>
<li>PHP register_globals and safe_mode should be set to “Off” (this is done in your php.ini file)</li>
<li>Your theme must call wp_head() and wp_footer()</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuring and Using the Plugin</h3>
<p>Instructions for this plugin can be found at http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For questions, feature requests, and support concerning the Latest News Widget plugin, please visit:<br />
http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins</p>


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