Ghanshyam Khanal

<p>Embed a Post title or excerpt or featured image or content within another Post or Page. Use the shortcode([embed_post post_id=”123″ type=”content”])</p>


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Embed a Post within another Post or Page using [embed_post] shortcode.

Aleksandar Urošević

TechWebUX

<p>Posts per Cat is a simple plugin that grab all or only selected categories from blog database, and then list recent N posts from each category, organised in 1-5 columns.</p>
<p>If you are interested to acquisition of plugin, please <a href="https://urosevic.net/wordpress/contact/?subject=Posts-per-Cat%20Acquisition" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>choose how many boxes per row will be displayed (one, two, three, four or five)</li>
<li>define number of post titles to display per category</li>
<li>define category ID’s to exclude</li>
<li>define category ID’s to include</li>
<li>toggle displaying of child categories</li>
<li>ordering boxes by category ID, title or custom (manually entered category ID’s as include list)</li>
<li>toggle displaying sticky posts</li>
<li>toggle usage of custom list CSS</li>
<li>SEO optimized permalink URI’s</li>
<li>integrate to template file, use shortcode [ppc] with options or widget</li>
<li>ready for localisation</li>
<li>template system for single post line in box defined by user in plain HTML with macro keywords for post elements</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode options</h4>
<p>You can use shortcode [ppc], with options below (set option in shortcode to override default settings above):</p>
<ul>
<li><code>columns=2</code> – Number of columns (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5)</li>
<li><code>minh=0</code> – Minimal height of box (in px, set to 0 for auto)</li>
<li><code>include=category_ID's</code> – Include category (comma separated category ID’s)</li>
<li><code>exclude=category_ID's</code> – Exclude category (comma separated category ID’s)</li>
<li><code>parent=0</code> – Only top level categories (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>order=ID</code> – Order categories by (ID, name or custom)</li>
<li><code>catonly=0</code> – Only from displayed category archive (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>noctlink=0</code> – Do not link category name (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>more=0</code> – Standalone link to archives (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>moretxt="More from"</code> – Archive link prefix</li>
<li><code>posts=5</code> – Number of headlines per category block</li>
<li><code>porderby=date</code> – Order posts by date, modified, title, name, ID, author</li>
<li><code>porder=DESC</code> – Order sorting DESC or ASC</li>
<li><code>titlelen=34</code> – Headline length (in characters)</li>
<li><code>shorten=0</code> – Shorten headline (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>commnum=0</code> – Display comment number (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>nosticky=0</code> – Hide sticky posts (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>excerpts=none</code> – Show excerpt (none, first or all)</li>
<li><code>content=0</code> – Use post content as excerpt (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>excleng=100</code> – Excerpt length</li>
<li><code>thumb=0</code> – Show thumbnail with excerpt (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>tsize=60</code> – Thumbnail size, set size in px for thumbnail width (height is same); or set in format WIDTHxHEIGHT (example 220×123); or set predefined custom image size (thumbnail, small, medium, large, full or cusotm defined)</li>
</ul>
<p>Since version 1.4.0 you can use template to display custom formatted output (post line element). Example:<br />
    [ppc]</p>
<h3><a href="%link%" rel="nofollow ugc">%title_short%</a></h3>
<pre><code><span class="comments-meta">(<a href="%comments_link%">%comments_num% comments</a>)</span>
<span class="date-meta">%date% @ %time%</span>
<span class="author-meta"><a href="%author_posts_url%">%author_displayname%</a></span>
%thumbnail%
%excerpt% <a href="%link%">[read more]</a>
[/ppc]
</code></pre>
<p>Supported macros:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>%title%</code></li>
<li><code>%title_short%</code></li>
<li><code>%post_content%</code></li>
<li><code>%excerpt%</code></li>
<li><code>%thumbnail%</code></li>
<li><code>%link%</code></li>
<li><code>%comments_num%</code></li>
<li><code>%comments_link%</code></li>
<li><code>%comments_form_link%</code></li>
<li><code>%datetime%</code></li>
<li><code>%date%</code></li>
<li><code>%time%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_displayname%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_firstname%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_lastname%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_posts_url%</code></li>
</ul>


Posts per Cat

Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.

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