tomotomobile

What is “Sakai”?
It is the city of Osaka in Japan. There is a WordPress user community named “WordBar Sakai”. Expand Category Sakai plugin is built by a hands-on some day.
<h4>Special Thanks</h4>
<a href="http://www.webopixel.net" rel="nofollow ugc">webOpixel</a>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<a href="https://github.com/tomotomo/expand-category-sakai" rel="nofollow ugc">Read me.</a>

Expand Category Sakai

Extend categories field. Provides Shortcodes to display the extended category meta-data.

Shellbot

Posts by Category lets you display a list of posts pulled from a particular category or tag, and optionally 
group them by year, month or first letter of the post title.
Current features include:
<ul>
<li>Set a title to be displayed above list of posts</li>
<li>Shortcode allows post list to be inserted anywhere</li>
<li>Limit how many posts should be displayed</li>
<li>Group posts by year, month or first letter</li>
</ul>
Usage
To display the list of posts, add the following shortcode to your post or page.
Default settings:
<pre><code>[sb_category_posts]
</code></pre>
Custom settings:
<pre><code>[sb_category_posts show="10" cat="3" group_by="year"]
</code></pre>
For full list of parameters see <a href="http://codebyshellbot.com/wordpress-plugins/posts-by-category/" title="Posts by Category" rel="nofollow ugc">the plugin release page</a>

Posts by Category

Display a list of posts from a specific category or tag.

Expand Category Sakai vs Posts by Category