Jeff

<p>Use a shortcode to display your posts.  Display them by tag, number of posts, order (asc, desc), orderby (date, time created, none, ID, author, title, parent, rand), pagination (pages), and display the results in one column or two.</p>
<p>Intended to be used with object caching (memcache) for maximum efficiency.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Display Posts tag=’a tag’ pages=’true’ posts=’7′ order=’desc’ orderby=’date’]</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>cat</h4>
<ul>
<li>Category name. Add multiple categories separated by commas. (Note: Using cat and tag will increase query load dramatically)</li>
</ul>
<h4>tag</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tag name. Add mulitiple tags separated by commas.</li>
</ul>
<h4>pages</h4>
<ul>
<li>True or false. Display the posts with pagination or all on one page.</li>
</ul>
<h4>posts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Number of posts to display. If pages is true it is the number of posts per page.</li>
</ul>
<h4>order</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display the posts in descending or ascending order.</li>
</ul>
<h4>orderby (There are many options including)</h4>
<ul>
<li>date</li>
<li>time created</li>
<li>none</li>
<li>ID</li>
<li>author</li>
<li>title</li>
<li>parent</li>
<li>rand</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requires PHP version 5.3.0 or greater.</h4>


L7 Display Posts

This plugin is very efficient.  Updates object cache when post is saved or updated so user never hits an empty cache.  Great for sites with huge numbers of posts and high traffic.



I use it on my site.

Efficiently show posts by tag or category using a simple shortcode.  Utilizes caching for greater speed and fewer database calls.

cavimaster

<p>Show content of any selected page in a widget.</p>
<p>In the back office, on your post page, check the checkbox “Add this page on widget”.<br />
This selected page, appears finaly in your “Page on widget” widget.<br />
Drag and drop your widget on widget-zone like you want.<br />
Show or unshow the page title<br />
Limit content lenght with number of words.<br />
Custom the read more link.</p>
<h4>Exemple</h4>
<ul>
<li>create a widget zone in top of the home page on your custom template</li>
<li>Select with the checkbox your welcome or about page on back-office</li>
<li>Put the “page on widget” widget on your new widget-zone</li>
<li>You ave now  home page with first, a welcome or about page and after the normal posts order</li>
</ul>
<p>Widget options: show or not page title || limit words of content || “read more link” custom</p>
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Page on widget

Show content of any selected page  in a widget

L7 Display Posts vs Page on widget