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Displays posts with their featured images from a specified category in a responsive grid using a simple shortcode.
Easily show and display posts from specific categories using a simple shortcode.
After installation simply go to Settings > DCP Lite to find the plugins page with the shortcode options.
If you require more features, there is also a premium version of this plugin, Display Category Posts Via Shortcode Pro.
You can see the extra features it offers on the Settings > DCP Lite page.
Some of those features are:
<ul>
<li>Pagination</li>
<li>Ability to add character limit to your posts which automatically adds the “read more” link at that point, instead of adding the “read more” break yourself to each and every post.</li>
<li>Ordering of the posts</li>
<li>How many posts to show in a row (2,3 or 4)</li>
<li>Ability to turn post titles into links</li>
<li>Ability to turn posts’ featured images into links</li>
<li>Show date</li>
<li>Add “load all” ajax button which loads all the posts at once</li>
<li>Fetch posts from multiple categories</li>
<li>Fetch specific posts regardless of their categories</li>
</ul>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
You may provide arbitrary sections, in the same format as the ones above. This may be of use for extremely complicated 
plugins where more information needs to be conveyed that doesn’t fit into the categories of “description” or 
“installation.” Arbitrary sections will be shown below the built-in sections outlined above.
<h3>A brief Markdown Example</h3>
Ordered list:
<ol>
<li>Some feature</li>
<li>Another feature</li>
<li>Something else about the plugin</li>
</ol>
Unordered list:
<ul>
<li>something</li>
<li>something else</li>
<li>third thing</li>
</ul>
Here’s a link to <a href="https://wordpress.org/" title="Your favorite software" rel="ugc">WordPress</a> and one to <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" title="Markdown is what the parser uses to process much of the readme file" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown’s Syntax Documentation</a>. 
Titles are optional, naturally.
Markdown uses email style notation for blockquotes and I’ve been told:
<blockquote>
Asterisks for emphasis. Double it up for strong.
</blockquote>
<pre><code><?php code(); // goes in backticks ?>
</code></pre>

Display Category Posts Via Shortcode Lite

Displays posts with their featured images from a specified category in a responsive grid using a simple shortcode. After installation simply go to Se …

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HEP Display Posts plugin allows users to display posts with responsive design in the websites in different ways by using multiple options.
You can display the posts in 2 (two) ways in your websites. They are: 
1. Using Widgets 
2. Using Shortcodes
Widget Instructions
To show the posts as widgets, you need to follow these instructions: 
* Hover on ‘Appearance’ on the left sidebar of admin panel 
* Click on ‘Widgets’ 
* In the widgets page, add an ‘HEP Display Posts’ widget in the required sidebar 
* That’s it! Now posts will be shown in the sidebar of the website
Shortcode
The shortcode of this plugin is:
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts]
</code></pre>
To show the posts as shortcodes, just paste the shortcode in your desired area, the posts will be shown accordingly. You can paste it in different posts, pages, sidebars etc. wherever you wish.
Options
There are several options to modify the display of the posts. The attributes, which are needed while using the shortcode are also mentioned. 
* Widget Title: Display the title of the widget. For example: Latest Posts 
* Number of Posts (shortcode attribute: hep_no_of_posts): How many posts will be shown. Default value is 5.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_no_of_posts="5"] 
</code></pre>
* Text Alignment (shortcode attribute: hep_text_align): How the text will be aligned. For Arabic, Right to Left (rtl) alignment is used. For English, Left to Right (ltr) alignment is used. Default value is ‘ltr’.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_text_align="ltr"]; the values are ltr, rtl 
</code></pre>
* Order Posts (shortcode attribute: hep_post_sorting_order): How the posts will be ordered, Ascending or Descending. Default value is ‘Descending’ (‘desc’ for shortcode).
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_post_sorting_order="desc"]; the values are asc, desc
</code></pre>
* Order Posts By (shortcode attribute: hep_post_sorting_order_by): According to which information the posts will be ordered. The options are by Date, by Post Title, or Random. Default value is ‘date’.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_post_sorting_order_by="date"]; the values are date, title, rand
</code></pre>
* Show By Category (shortcode attribute: hep_settings_post_category): Show posts according to category(ies). The slug of the category should be given. Multiple category slugs could also be entered, separated by commas. You can keep it blank for no specific categories.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_settings_post_category="news"]
</code></pre>
* Show By Tag (shortcode attribute: hep_settings_post_tag): Show posts according to tag(s). The slug of the tag should be given. Multiple tag slugs could also be entered, separated by commas. You can keep it blank for no specific tags.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_settings_post_tag="tag1"]
</code></pre>
* Show By Author (shortcode attribute: hep_settings_post_author): Show posts according to author. The slug of the author should be given. Only one slug is allowed here. You can keep it blank for no specific author.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_settings_post_author="admin"]
</code></pre>
* Hide Thumbnail (shortcode attribute: hep_hide_thumbnail): Hide the thumbnail images of the posts displayed on webite. In order to hide the thumbnail for shortcode, the value should be ‘on’.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_hide_thumbnail="on"];
</code></pre>
* Hide Date (shortcode attribute: hep_hide_date): Hide the date of the posts displayed on webite. In order to hide the date for shortcode, the value should be ‘on’.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_hide_date="on"]
</code></pre>
* Word Limit for Title (shortcode attribute: hep_title_word_limit): How many words of the title will be shown. Keep 0 (zero) to show the full title. Default value is 0 (zero).
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_title_word_limit="5"]
</code></pre>
* Message for No Posts (shortcode attribute: hep_no_posts_message): Message to show if no posts are found. Default message is ‘No posts found!’.
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_no_posts_message="No posts found!"]
</code></pre>
A sample shortcode is given below with some of the attributes:
<pre><code>[hep_display_posts hep_no_of_posts="5" hep_text_align="ltr" hep_post_sorting_order="desc" hep_post_sorting_order_by="date"]
</code></pre>

HEP Display Posts

HEP Display Posts plugin allows users to display posts with responsive design in the websites in different ways by using multiple options.

Display Category Posts Via Shortcode Lite vs HEP Display Posts