Bill Erickson

This plugin extends <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode" rel="ugc">Display Posts</a> by letting you break your content down by month or year. You can use all of the <a href="https://displayposts.com/docs/parameters/" rel="nofollow ugc">Display Posts parameters</a> to customize the query.
Month Listing
<pre><code>[display-posts display_by_month="true" posts_per_page="999" title="Posts by Month"]
</code></pre>
Use the <code>display_by_month</code> parameter to break it down by month. To list all your content, use a high <code>posts_per_page</code>, like 999. You can also add an optional <code>title</code> to appear above the listing.
Year Listing
<pre><code>[display-posts display_by_year="true" posts_per_page="999" title"Posts by Year"]
</code></pre>
Use the <code>display_by_month</code> parameter to break it down by year. To list all your content, use a high <code>posts_per_page</code>, like 999. You can also add an optional <code>title</code> to appear above the listing.
Filters
If you’re a developer, you can use the following filters to customize the markup:
<ul>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_heading_tag</code> – The heading tag used for date headings. Default is h4.</li>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_heading_class</code> – The class added to the heading tag. Default is .display-posts-date.</li>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_month_format</code> – The date format used for month headings. Default is ‘F Y’.</li>
<li><code>display_posts_date_view_year_format</code> – The date format used for year headings. Default is ‘Y’.</li>
</ul>

Display Posts – Date View

List your content broken down by month or year. This is an extension of the Display Posts plugin.

Tim Hyde

A set of useful widgets created for adding more fluid content to any theme. Especially designed for responsive themes. Also has a very useful shortcode for using some of the functionality inside a post or page. The plugin adds a set of new widgets, including:
<ul>
<li>Show Posts Widget – for showing posts excerpts, thumbs and post formats.</li>
<li>Show Pages Widget” – Shows thumbs/excerpts of child pages of defined parent page.</li>
<li>flickr Widget – Show flickr thumbs</li>
<li>Twitter Widget – show your latest tweets</li>
<li>Facebook Widget – show your facebook page feed without slowing your site down and in a responsive way!</li>
</ul>
And also adds a powerful shortcode for using the show posts/pages functionality in a post or page.
e.g.
[los_showposts post_type=”posts” columns=”3″ content=”true” heading=”true” cat_id=”” num_posts=”3″ ]
<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>Attribute – Description Values</li>
<li>post_type – Type of query “pages” or “posts”</li>
<li>cat_id – Category ID for posts e.g. “23”</li>
<li>exclude_cats – post categories ids to exclude e.g. “23,170,9”</li>
<li>num_posts – Number of items to show e.g. “5?</li>
<li>columns – Number of columns to layout “1”, “2”, “3” or “4”</li>
<li>heading – Show headings “true” or “false”</li>
<li>author – Show author link “true” or “false”</li>
<li>tags – Show tags “true” or “false”</li>
<li>categories – Show categories “true” or “false”</li>
<li>thumbs – Show Post thumbnails “true” or “false”</li>
<li>dates – Show Post Dates “true” or “false”</li>
<li>content – Show post/page excerpt “true” or “false”</li>
<li>parent_id – When showing pages, show children of this parent page. e.g. “34”</li>
<li>thumbsize – Image size to use use “widget” or “gallery”</li>
<li>entrytag – Heading tag for each item e.g. “h3”</li>
<li>post_formats – Show post format icons “true” or “false”</li>
<li>post_class – CSS class string to use for each item default is “los-custom-post”</li>
<li>show_sticky – Set to “1” to enable sticky posts function, “0” is deafult (i.e. sticky is ignored)</li>
</ul>
<h4>More Information</h4>
For further information see <a href="http://themeloom.com/" title="The ThemeLoom" rel="nofollow ugc">ThemeLoom</a>
<h4>Thanks</h4>
<ul>
<li>to Andrew Kurtis for Spanish language files</li>
</ul>

ThemeLoom Widgets

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