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.

Mike Martel

<p>WP Tiles is a WordPress plugin that allows anyone to create beautiful tiled layouts for their website.</p>
<p>With WP Tiles you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Display your latest blog posts in a fully customizable and responsive grid layout</li>
<li>Show a tiled archive of any post type, category or other taxonomy</li>
<li>Create beautiful tiled image galleries using the WP Media Uploader</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>To experience for yourself how easy it is to create grids with WP Tiles, checkout the <a href="http://wp-tiles.com/#grid-editor" rel="nofollow ugc">grid designer</a> on our website.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Usages</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Displaying Posts</strong>: The simplest way of using WP Tiles is by placing the <code>[wp-tiles]</code> shortcode somewhere on any of your pages or posts. Just add [wp-tiles] to your post to view the default tiles. However, WP Tiles is extremely flexible, allowing you to specify what content you want to display on your tiles, whether to display background images or skip posts that have no featured image, and much much more.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Create a tiled gallery</strong>: You can use WP Tiles to replace your default WordPress <code>[gallery]</code> shortcode. Simply create a gallery and select the grid you want to use, and you are good to go. Images can link to the attachment page, the image file, or be opened using a Thickbox, or with JetPack’s Carousel (or the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/carousel-without-jetpack/" rel="ugc">Gallery Carousel without JetPack</a> plugin!).</p>
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> We recently released our <em>free</em> Twenty Fourteen child theme for WP Tiles. Check it out <a href="http://wp-tiles.com/tiledfourteen/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Other Features</h4>
<p><em>Pagination using the shortcode</em><br />
The shortcode can be <strong>automatically paginated</strong>. The plugin includes AJAX pagination (without page reload), previous/next page navigation and page number navigation.</p>
<p><em>SEO Friendly</em><br />
The Tiles require JavaScript to be rendered, but they are readable by bots that don’t use JavaScript, and even include basic Schema.org microtags and are generated using clean HTML5. This means that you can safely use WP Tiles as a primary element on your page without worrying about SEO.</p>
<p><em>Grid Builder and Tile Designer</em><br />
The admin interface comes with a live editor for grid templates, so you can immediately see what grid templates look like. Tiles and bylines also come with a collection of hover effects and a list of adjustable properties that you can edit and preview immediately in the Tile Designer.</p>
<p><em>Completely custom bylines</em><br />
The bylines are now generated using a custom template, the mark up and content of which you can control entirely. You could even start showing complete posts on tiles if you want to!</p>
<p>For complete documentation, check out the website at <a href="http://wp-tiles.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-tiles.com</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If you want to help develop this plugin, visit the <a href="https://github.com/mgmartel/WP-Tiles" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a>.</p>
</blockquote>


WP Tiles

I was impressed at option to create tiles with my own dimensions, just what I needed. It can be seen that many, many working hours were spent into this plugin. And it still works in Wordpress 5.02.
I only found that option for different grid at mobile is not functioning, I will see if I can fix it. I also modified Javascript in a way that it loads 16:9 tiles instead of quadratic ones.

Delighted

Add beautiful, fully customizable post tiles or tiled galleries anywhere on your WordPress site easily with WP Tiles.

Latest Content by Anything vs WP Tiles