reneade

<p>This plugin is exactly what you need if you like to include a list of posts (latest posts, most commented posts, future posts, …) in a page, post or widget very easy! This WordPress plugin provides placeholders for configurable dynamic lists of posts. The placeholders can be used in posts, pages or widgets, and will get replaced to the list of posts. Of course, it is also possible to use the lists directly in your template files. You can define the placeholders yourself and configure the list that should replace it.</p>
<p>You can define multiple placeholders like %MYPLACEHOLDER%.<br />
For each placeholder you can configure the list that replaces the placeholder if the page/widget/post gets viewed.<br />
You can decide to list posts of a specific category, author or tag. You can configure how to order them or what status the post has to have for example. Of course you can set the maximum number of posts to display.<br />
You can configure the html output for before and for after the list, customize the html string for each entry of the list, and set a string to display if there are no posts.<br />
In these strings you can use placeholders. For example: %count%, %numberposts%, %counter%, %postid%, %posttitle%, %posturl%, %author%, %date%, %time%, %modifieddate%, %modifiedtime%, … (case sensitive!)</p>
<p>Plugin Website: http://www.rene-ade.de/inhalte/wordpress-plugin-postlists.html<br />
Comments are welcome! And of course, I also like presents of my Amazon-Wishlist or paypal donations to finance my website. 🙂</p>
<h3>Update</h3>
<ol>
<li>Activate “Keep lists and settings also if plugin gets deactivated” if you dont want to loose your lists settings</li>
<li>Deactivate the PostLists-Plugin</li>
<li>Remove the existing folder ‘postlists’ with all files from your ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder on your webserver</li>
<li>Upload the folder ‘postlists’ with all files to ‘/wp-content/plugins’ on your webserver</li>
<li>Activate the plugin “PostLists” through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<h3>WordPressVersions</h3>
<p>This Plugin works fine with WordPress Version 2.3 and all higher Versions.</p>
<p>If you use a lower WordPress-Version or WordPress-Mu, please read this:<br />
http://www.rene-ade.de/inhalte/wordpress-plugin-postlists-wordpress-versionen.html</p>
<h3>Extensions</h3>
<p>You can download PostLists-Extensions here to add more functionality:<br />
http://www.rene-ade.de/inhalte/wordpress-plugin-postlists-extensions.html</p>


PostLists

This WordPress plugin provides placeholders for configurable dynamic lists of posts. The placeholders can be used in posts, pages or widgets, and will …

Daniel Floeter

Mark-k

Mrinal Roy

<p>Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category.</p>
<h4>Term and Category based Posts Widget</h4>
<p>A premium version of that free widget available at <a href="https://tiptoppress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">tiptoppress.com</a> created for big WordPress sites.</p>
<h4>Premium features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto-sizing Grid layout</li>
<li>Custom field support in the Template</li>
<li>Shortcode support in the Template</li>
<li>Image-Slider (or News-Ticker)</li>
<li>Asymmetrical list layouts</li>
<li>Full background images</li>
<li>Masonry responsive grid layout</li>
<li>More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …)</li>
<li>Custom Post Types, Events, Products support</li>
<li>All free features</li>
<li>E-Mail support</li>
<li>More examples on the <a href="https://demo.tiptoppress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo pages</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tiptoppress.com/template-arrange-post-details/" rel="nofollow ugc">Template</a> to arrange the post details.</li>
<li>The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons.</li>
<li>Font-icon support.</li>
<li>‘Load more’ button / Ajax API</li>
<li>Item Title heading level buttons</li>
<li>Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp)</li>
<li>Shortcode (Easily change all Shortcode options in the customizer).</li>
<li>Date range filter</li>
<li>New date format: Time since plublished</li>
<li>Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private.</li>
<li>Multiple shortcodes at the same site or post.</li>
<li>Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another).</li>
<li>Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode.</li>
<li>Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”.</li>
<li>For editing shortcode adds a Customizer link to the admin-bar (“With one click to the Customizer”).</li>
<li>Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit).</li>
<li>Fluid images (max-width in %).</li>
<li>One thumb dimension can be left empty.</li>
<li>Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail.</li>
<li>Set a default thumbnail.</li>
<li>Hide widget text or text, if there is no post.</li>
<li>Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail.</li>
<li>Option exclude current post.</li>
<li>Option show post author, comment’s count, post date.</li>
<li>Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes</li>
<li>Admin UI: Buttons to easy add post details placeholder.</li>
<li>Multi sites support.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full <a href="https://tiptoppress.com/category-posts-widget/documentation-4-9" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a></li>
<li>Shortcode: Use [catposts] in the content and <a href="https://tiptoppress.com/use-shortcode-to-add-category-posts-widget-to-the-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">edit in the customizer</a></li>
<li>Formatting date and time: See <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time" rel="nofollow ugc">Formatting Date and Time</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at<br />
<a href="https://github.com/DanielFloeter/category-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> (If possible with a pull request).</p>


Category Posts Widget

Very easy to customize the view, as a widget or shortcode. Utilizes the customizer to customize the shortcode display. Elegant.

Very useful and works perfect

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.

PostLists vs Category Posts Widget