Jonny Quinn

<p><strong>Latest Content by Anything</strong> is a lightweight yet powerful shortcode plugin that displays your latest content from any post type with flexible taxonomy filtering.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Universal Post Type Support</strong> – Works with posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and ANY custom post type</li>
<li><strong>Taxonomy Filtering</strong> – Filter by category, tag, or any custom taxonomy</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Integration</strong> – Automatically displays product prices when showing products</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Layouts</strong> – Choose between horizontal or vertical layouts</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Display</strong> – Control titles, excerpts, thumbnails, and more</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong> – Clean code with proper escaping and sanitization</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong> – No bloat, minimal CSS, no jQuery dependency</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display latest blog posts on your homepage</li>
<li>Show featured products from a specific WooCommerce category</li>
<li>Create a portfolio grid from custom post types</li>
<li>Build related content sections</li>
<li>Display team members from a custom post type</li>
<li>Show testimonials filtered by service type</li>
<li>Feature recent news articles by category</li>
</ul>
<h4>Basic Usage</h4>
<p>Simply add this shortcode to any page, post, or widget:</p>
<pre><code>[latest_content_by_anything]
</code></pre>
<h4>WooCommerce Example</h4>
<p>Display your latest products with prices:</p>
<pre><code>[latest_content_by_anything post_type="product" num_items="4" layout="horizontal"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
<p>Looking for more? <strong><a href="https://themecanvas.co.uk/pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Latest Content by Anything Pro</a></strong> adds:</p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple design templates</li>
<li>Visual shortcode builder</li>
<li>AJAX pagination (load more)</li>
<li>Masonry and carousel layouts</li>
<li>Gutenberg block</li>
<li>Custom field display (ACF compatible)</li>
<li>Priority support</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode Parameters</h3>
<h4>Display Options</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>num_items</code> – Number of items to display (default: 5)</li>
<li><code>post_type</code> – Post type to query: post, page, product, or any CPT (default: post)</li>
<li><code>display_titles</code> – Show post titles: true or false (default: true)</li>
<li><code>excerpt_length</code> – Excerpt length in words, 0 to hide (default: 100)</li>
<li><code>thumbnail_size</code> – WordPress image size: thumbnail, medium, large, full (default: thumbnail)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Filtering Options</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>taxonomy</code> – Taxonomy slug to filter by (e.g., category, product_cat)</li>
<li><code>term</code> – Term slug within the taxonomy to filter by</li>
</ul>
<h4>Layout Options</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>layout</code> – Display layout: vertical, horizontal, or grid (default: vertical)</li>
<li><code>columns</code> – Number of columns for grid layout, 1-6 (default: 3)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sorting Options</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>orderby</code> – Sort by: date, title, modified, rand, menu_order (default: date)</li>
<li><code>order</code> – Sort direction: ASC or DESC (default: DESC)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Additional Options</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>exclude</code> – Comma-separated post IDs to exclude</li>
<li><code>offset</code> – Skip the first N posts (default: 0)</li>
<li><code>show_date</code> – Display post date: true or false (default: false)</li>
<li><code>show_author</code> – Display author name: true or false (default: false)</li>
<li><code>show_read_more</code> – Add “Read More” link: true or false (default: false)</li>
<li><code>read_more_text</code> – Custom “Read More” text (default: Read More)</li>
<li><code>cache</code> – Enable query caching: true or false (default: true)</li>
</ul>
<h4>WooCommerce Options</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>hide_price</code> – Hide product prices: true or false (default: false)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Complete Example</h4>
<pre><code>[latest_content_by_anything
    num_items="6"
    post_type="product"
    taxonomy="product_cat"
    term="featured"
    thumbnail_size="medium"
    excerpt_length="20"
    display_titles="true"
    layout="horizontal"
    hide_price="false"
]<h3>Additional Resources</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>* <a href="https://themecanvas.co.uk" rel="nofollow ugc">Full Documentation</a> – Detailed guides and examples<br />
* <a href="https://themecanvas.co.uk/feature-requests/" rel="nofollow ugc">Feature Requests</a> – Suggest new features<br />
* <a href="https://themecanvas.co.uk/pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Version</a> – Unlock advanced features</p>


Latest Content by Anything

Display latest posts, products, or any custom post type with powerful filtering by taxonomy. Lightweight, flexible, and WooCommerce compatible.

David Artiss

nutsmuggler

<p>This is a simple community WordPress plugin aimed at giving credit where credit is due.</p>
<p>The plugin inserts an XHTML list into any post/page through a shortcode. If you’re into customization, you can specify a format argument and indicate the exact output you are after. There’s also an option to display inactive plugins as well.</p>
<p>Key features include…</p>
<ul>
<li>A simple template system allows you to format how you’d like the plugin information to be shown</li>
<li>Template tags are available for automatically linked items as well as simple text</li>
<li>Choose from a number of pieces of plugin data to be output</li>
<li>Display inactive plugins as well as active plugins if you wish</li>
<li>Automatically limit long descriptions to specific lengths, and even remove emojis from the output</li>
<li>Output is cached to provide a super-quick response</li>
<li>A separate shortcode allows you to display how many plugins you have!</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://matej.nastran.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Matej Nastran</a>‘s <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-plugins/" rel="ugc">My plugins</a>, from which <em>Plugins list</em> was initially derived.</p>
<p>Iconography is courtesy of the very talented <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/jankirathore" rel="nofollow ugc">Janki Rathod</a>.</p>
<p><strong><em>Please visit the <a href="https://github.com/dartiss/plugins-list" title="Github" rel="nofollow ugc">Github page</a> for the latest code development, planned enhancements and known issues</em></strong></p>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
<p>To get a list of the plugins that are installed and activated in your website, insert the following into any post or page:</p>
<pre><code><ul>[plugins_list]</ul>
</code></pre>
<p>You can customise the output specifying the <code>format</code> argument and a number of pre-defined <code>tags</code>. Here’s an example:</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}"]
</code></pre>
<p>The tags are as follows, all defined within double braces…</p>
<ul>
<li><code>Title</code> – the plugin title</li>
<li><code>PluginURI</code> – the URL of the plugin</li>
<li><code>Author</code> – the plugin author</li>
<li><code>AuthorURI</code> – the author’s URL</li>
<li><code>Version</code> – plugin version number</li>
<li><code>Description</code> – the plugin description</li>
<li><code>RequiresWP</code> – the minimum required level of WordPress</li>
<li><code>RequiresPHP</code> – the minimum required level of PHP</li>
<li><code>LinkedTitle</code> – the title but automatically linked to the corresponding URL</li>
<li><code>LinkedAuthor</code> – the author, linking to their profile</li>
<li><code>Active</code> – shows ‘Active’ or ‘Inactive’, depending on the status of the plugin</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugins list can be freely styled with css, just place any <em>class</em> or <em>id</em> attribute on the <code>format</code> string, or on the elements surrounding it.</p>
<h3>Using HTML</h3>
<p>If you wish to put HTML in your format then you can. However, this can cause havoc in the Visual editor and even causes extra characters to be passed into the output (rogue paragraph tags, for instance). I therefore highly recommend that, if you wish to add HTML, use double braces instead of < and > around your HTML tags – this plugin will correct this before output but it means the visual editor doesn’t try and interpret the HTML.</p>
<p>For example…</p>
<pre><code><ul>[plugins_list format="{{li}}{{LinkedTitle}} - {{LinkedAuthor}}{{/li}}"]</ul>
</code></pre>
<p>The characters will be corrected upon output and you will get a lovely, bulleted, un-ordered list as output.</p>
<p>If you’re using the block editor and need to wrap HTML around the outside of the short code, please see the details further below on the best way to do this.</p>
<h3>Additional Parameters</h3>
<p><strong>Active & Inactive Plugins</strong></p>
<p>By default, only active plugins are shown, but by using the <code>show_active</code>, <code>show_inactive</code> and <code>show_recent</code> parameters you can change this.</p>
<p>For example, this will show both active and inactive…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" show_inactive=true]
</code></pre>
<p>If you wanted to show just inactive, you’d put..</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" show_inactive=true show_active=false]
</code></pre>
<p>If you wanted to show just plugins that are inactive but were recently active, you’d put…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" show_inactive=false show_active=false show_recent=true]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Link Targets & No Follow</strong></p>
<p>By default links will be followed but you can make these “nofollow” by simply adding the parameter of <code>nofollow=true</code>. For example…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" nofollow=true]
</code></pre>
<p>You can also specify the link target too. For example…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" target="_blank"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Truncate the Description</strong></p>
<p>Two parameters exist to truncate the description, so it doesn’t get too long unwieldy. You can specify a maximum number of words or a maximum number of characters using <code>words</code> or <code>chars</code>. Here’s an example of each…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" words=20]

[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" chars=80]
</code></pre>
<p>You shouldn’t do this but if you specify both then the shortest one will be used.</p>
<p>By default, if a truncation occurs, ellipsis will be added to the end. However, you can change this by using the <code>end</code> parameter and specifying your own ending. For example…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" chars=80 end=" [More]"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Remove Emoji</strong></p>
<p>If you want to remove emoji from the description, use the <code>emoji</code> parameter to achieve this. By default this is <code>true</code> but set to <code>false</code> to have them removed. For example…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" emoji=false]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Sort by Author</strong></p>
<p>Want so sort the output by author and not plugin name? Just use the parameter <code>by_author</code>. For example…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" by_author=true]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Cache</strong></p>
<p>By default your plugin list will be cached for 5 minutes, ensuring that performance is impacted as little as possible. Use the parameter <code>cache</code> to change the number of minutes. Set this to false to switch off caching.</p>
<p>For example…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" cache=60]
</code></pre>
<p>This will cache for 1 hour. The following will switch the cache off…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} ({{LinkedAuthor}}) - {{Description}}{{br/}}" cache=false]<h3>Using with the block editor</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>You can insert shortcodes directly into the block editor without an issue and it will be automatically added to a shortcode block. However, if you need to wrap HTML around it then this will cause issues. The solution here is to add a shortcode block first and then add the whole line into that. The HTML then works just fine.</p>
<h3>Plugin Count</h3>
<p>A shortcode also exists to allow you to display the number of plugins that you have. Simply add <code>[plugins_number]</code> to your post or page and it will return the number of active plugins.</p>
<p>To display the number of active AND inactive plugins use…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_number inactive=true]
</code></pre>
<p>You can also display the number of inactive plugins by specifying…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_number inactive=true active=false]
</code></pre>
<p>As with the other shortcode results will be cached by default. To change the number of minutes simply use the <code>cache</code> parameter. Set it to <code>false</code> to switch off caching. For example…</p>
<pre><code>[plugins_number inactive=true cache=120]
</code></pre>
<p>This will set the cache to 2 hours.</p>
<h3>Reviews & Mentions</h3>
<p><a href="http://halfelf.org/2012/penguins-just-gotta-be-me/#comments" title="PENGUINS JUST GOTTA BE ME" rel="nofollow ugc">A default WP credit page would be kind of neat</a></p>


Plugins List

Allows you to insert a list of the Wordpress plugins you are using into any post/page.

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