flexostudio

Choose from which category and how many posts you want to show, as is shown 
name and picture of the contents of this publication.
<h3>How to use</h3>
<ol>
<li>From the Administration -> settings go to post manager options enter data, generate code copy and paste the desired place in post</li>
<li>FlexoPostManager::category_post($_args); where $ _args is an array of type 
$args = array( 
 ‘category’ => ‘pictures’, 
 ‘count’ => 5, 
 ‘h_num’ => 3, 
 ‘master_class’ => ‘post-preview’, 
 ‘return’ => false, 
 ‘title_first’ => true, 
 ‘template_func’ => ‘format_post_as_picture’, 
 ‘order_by_postmeta’ => array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘fb_score’, 
 ‘order’ => ‘DESC’ 
 ), 
); 
you can put this wherever you want in header, in sidebar …..</li>
</ol>

flexo-posts-manager

shows your chosen number of publications in the selected category

Paolo T. (pixline)

swergroup

Category Pages & Posts Shortcodes offers helpful shortcodes to display a post or page content, or a list of posts. 
It also allow an exclusive relationship between a Category and a Page, in order to display the page content as “header” of category archives, with a simple php tag.
You can safely use shortcodes inside a post or a page, you can embed them in your templates or in your sidebar 
using the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">do_shortcode</a> WordPress function, like that:
<pre><code><?php do_shortcode('[showsingle <options>"]'); ?>
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dev.swergroup.com/pages-and-posts-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation and usage examples</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/page2cat">Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/swergroup/category-pages-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://travis-ci.org/swergroup/category-pages-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Build status on Travis CI</a></li>
</ul>
This plugin is published under GPL2 open source license by <a href="http://swergroup.com/sviluppo/siti-internet-torino/" rel="nofollow ugc">SWER Sviluppo siti internet Torino</a>. If you find it useful, please <a href="https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=swergroup&url=https://wordpress.org/plugins/page2cat/&title=Page2Cat%20WP%20plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Flattr this!</a>

Page2cat: Category, Pages & Posts Shortcodes

Useful shortcodes to display a post or page content or a list of posts. 100.000 downloads!

flexo-posts-manager vs Page2cat: Category, Pages & Posts Shortcodes