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.

Scott Reilly

<p>This plugin preserves formatting of code for display by preventing its modification by WordPress and other plugins while also retaining whitespace.</p>
<p>NOTE: This plugin does <strong>NOT</strong> handle posts containing blocks. For such posts, use the built-in code or preformatted blocks to format your code for display. However, this plugin would still be needed if you have text-based posts from before using the blocks-based editor.</p>
<p>NOTE: Use of the visual text editor will pose problems as it can mangle your intent in terms of <code>code</code> tags. I strongly suggest you not use the visual editor in conjunction with this plugin as I have taken no effort to make the two compatible.</p>
<p>Notes:</p>
<p>Basically, you can just paste code into <code>code</code>, <code>pre</code>, and/or other tags you additionally specify and this plugin will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Prevent WordPress from HTML-encoding text (i.e. single- and double-quotes will not become curly; “–” and “—” will not become en dash and em dash, respectively; “…” will not become a horizontal ellipsis, etc)</li>
<li>Prevent most other plugins from modifying preserved code</li>
<li>Prevent shortcodes from being processed</li>
<li>Optionally preserve whitespace (in a variety of methods)</li>
<li>Optionally preserve code added in comments</li>
</ul>
<p>Keep these things in mind:</p>
<ul>
<li>ALL embedded HTML tags and HTML entities will be rendered as text to browsers, appearing exactly as you wrote them (including any <code>br</code> tags).</li>
<li>By default this plugin filters ‘the_content’ (post content), ‘the_excerpt’ (post excerpt), and ‘get_comment_text (comment content)’.</li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>A post containing this within <code>code</code> tags:</p>
<pre><code>$wpdb->query("
        INSERT INTO $tablepostmeta
        (post_id,meta_key,meta_value)
        VALUES ('$post_id','link','$extended')
");
</code></pre>
<p>Would, with this plugin enabled, look in a browser pretty much how it does above, instead of like:</p>
<pre><code>$wpdb->query(&#8212;
INSERT INTO $tablepostmeta
(post_id,meta_key,meta_value)
VALUES ('$post_id','link','$extended')
&#8213;);
</code></pre>
<p>Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/preserve-code-formatting/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/preserve-code-formatting/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/preserve-code-formatting/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a></p>


Preserve Code Formatting

Preserve formatting of code for display by preventing its modification by WordPress and other plugins while also retaining whitespace.

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