robertdrake

This plugin creates the [Category]] Shortcode. The code takes 5 arguments:
number: the number of posts to display. 0 equals the default number. -1 equals the total available.
Order: Ascending or Descending
Display Method: Full, Excerpt, Title
Order By: Author, Date, Title, Modified, Parent, ID, Rand, None, or Comment Count.
Category: this is the category id the category or categories that should be searched. Multiple categories can be specified in a comma separated list.
Example shortcode:
[Category number=’5′ method=’title’ order=’asc’ id=’11,45′ orderby=’comment_count’]
This will show 5 posts in ascending order of category 11 and 45 as arranged by comment_count and will display just the post titles.
<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
A big thank you to g33kg0dd3ss for figuring out the 1.3 fix issue with the loop being broken. She contributed the patch fix.
<h3>Future Additions?</h3>
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Let plugin form allow for multiple category selections
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Let plugin form allow for multiple orderby methods
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In admin form restrict Number of posts to numbers only.
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In admin form setup a copy and paste script
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Accept a category name as a valid input
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Internationalization of the plugin
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Improve Formatting of Posts / Make formatting easier to edit./ Give user more control over formatting
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Allow attachments to come through
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Turn title links on or off.
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Allow comments in output
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Give user more control over the postformatting
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Add ability to modify thumbnail options through shortcode
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Category Shortcode

Plugin adds shortcode capability for adding posts by category to a page.

shawfactor

This is a simple plugin that you may need.
It allows you to display information about the default category via the [lh_display_default_category] shortcode.
By default this shortcode will output the name name of the default category but if you wish to output any of the wordpress category object keys you can output them instead by specifiying the key e.g. [lh_display_default_category key=”category_count”]
This plugin actually supports other taxonomies (that have default term support). So you can also us it like so: [lh_display_default_category taxonomy=”my-custom-taxonomy”]
In time I will add gutenberg support for this plugin
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LH Display Default Category

Display information about the default category via a shortcode

Category Shortcode vs LH Display Default Category