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Posts by Category lets you display a list of posts pulled from a particular category or tag, and optionally 
group them by year, month or first letter of the post title.
Current features include:
<ul>
<li>Set a title to be displayed above list of posts</li>
<li>Shortcode allows post list to be inserted anywhere</li>
<li>Limit how many posts should be displayed</li>
<li>Group posts by year, month or first letter</li>
</ul>
Usage
To display the list of posts, add the following shortcode to your post or page.
Default settings:
<pre><code>[sb_category_posts]
</code></pre>
Custom settings:
<pre><code>[sb_category_posts show="10" cat="3" group_by="year"]
</code></pre>
For full list of parameters see <a href="http://codebyshellbot.com/wordpress-plugins/posts-by-category/" title="Posts by Category" rel="nofollow ugc">the plugin release page</a>

Posts by Category

Display a list of posts from a specific category or tag.

WPKube

The plugin renders a tag cloud using a professionally designed tag image as a background.
The plugin’s tag cloud is completely responsive and is correctly rendered in all browsers.
The primary application of this feature is through the “Cool Tag Cloud” widget, but you can also use the shortcode [cool_tag_cloud] to display the tag cloud anywhere where shortcodes are supported.
Here is the list of parameters that can be used with the shortcode, each with its own set of potential values (which are separated by the | symbol):
<ul>
<li><code>style="default|silver|green|red|blue|brown|purple|cyan|lime|black"</code></li>
<li><code>font_family="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"</code></li>
<li><code>smallest="10"</code></li>
<li><code>largest="10"</code></li>
<li><code>align="left|right"</code></li>
<li><code>font_weight="normal|bold"</code></li>
<li><code>text_transform="none|uppercase|lowercase|capitalize"</code></li>
<li><code>number="20"</code></li>
<li><code>order_by="name|count"</code></li>
<li><code>order="ASC|DESC|RAND"</code></li>
<li><code>taxonomy="post_tag"</code></li>
<li><code>nofollow="yes|no"</code></li>
<li><code>animation="yes|no"</code></li>
<li><code>on_single_display="global|local"</code></li>
<li><code>on_archive_display="all|children|siblings|descendants"</code></li>
<li><code>exclude="1,2,3"</code></li>
<li><code>include="1,2,3"</code></li>
</ul>
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Special thanks to <a href="http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/tagtastic-tag-cloud-psd/" rel="nofollow ugc">Orman Clark</a> for the tag image and to <a href="http://dimox.name/beautiful-tags-markup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dimox</a> for the CSS code.
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Cool Tag Cloud

This came as a blessing when I had written some custom code to show a custom Taxonomy cloud on sidebar. The options to customize are so cool, and I love the option to either show the taxonomy related to a post on a Single post page or all tags, that makes it so versatile. Thanks so much to the author.

Posts by Category vs Cool Tag Cloud