Sudar Muthu

<p>Posts By Tag WordPress Plugin, provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar.</p>
<p>These tags can be specified in the widget or the Plugin can automatically retrieve them from the current post tags, post slug or form custom field. The custom fields can be specified in the edit post or page screen.</p>
<p>You can also use shortcode or template function to display the posts.</p>
<p>The Plugin caches the posts of each widget separately, and issues database queries only when needed. This will reduce the amount of database queries involved for each page load and will therefore be light on your server. If this clashes with other Plugins, you also have an option to disable it.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Sidebar Widget</h4>
<p>Posts By Tag Plugin provides a sidebar widget which can be configured to display posts from a set of tags in the sidebar. You can have multiple widgets with different set of tags configured for each one of them.</p>
<p>Each widget allows you to choose</p>
<ul>
<li>The set of tags from where posts should be selected (or excluded)</li>
<li>The number of posts to be displayed.</li>
<li>Whether to pick the tags from current post</li>
<li>Whether to pick the tags from current post slug</li>
<li>Whether to pick the tags from current post’s custom field</li>
<li>Option to enable post excerpts to be displayed with post titles.</li>
<li>Option to display post thumbnail if present.</li>
<li>Option to display post author.</li>
<li>Option to display post date.</li>
<li>Option to display post content.</li>
<li>Choose the order in which the posts should be displayed.</li>
<li>Option to exclude current post/page.</li>
<li>Option to specify the target attribute for links</li>
<li>Option to display links to tag archive pages.</li>
<li>Option to disable the cache if needed.</li>
<li>Option to enable Google Analytics tracking on the links</li>
</ul>
<p>To add the widget, log into your WordPress admin console and go to Appearances -> Widgets. You will find the widget with the title “Posts By Tag”. Drag and drop it in the sidebar where you want the widget to be displayed.</p>
<h4>Template function</h4>
<p>In addition to using the widget, you can also use the following template function to display posts from a set of tags, anywhere in the theme.</p>
<pre><code>posts_by_tag($tags, $options);
</code></pre>
<p>The following options can be passed in the $options array</p>
<ul>
<li><code>$tags</code> (string) – set of comma separated tags. If you leave this empty, then the tags from the current post will be used.</li>
<li><code>$options</code> (array) – set of options. The following are the fields that are allowed
<ul>
<li><code>number</code> (number) – default 5 – number of posts to display</li>
<li><code>tag_from_post</code> (bool) – default FALSE – whether to pick up tags from current post’s tag</li>
<li><code>tag_from_post_slug</code> (bool) – default FALSE – whether to pick up tags from current post’s slug</li>
<li><code>tag_from_post_custom_field</code> (bool) – default FALSE – whether to pick up tags from current post’s custom field</li>
<li><code>exclude</code> (bool) – default FALSE – Where to include the tags or exclude the tags</li>
<li><code>excerpt</code> (bool)  – default FALSE – To display post excerpts or not</li>
<li><code>excerpt_filter</code> (bool) – default TRUE Whether to enable or disable excerpt filter</li>
<li><code>thumbnail</code> (bool) – default FALSE  – To display post thumbnails or not</li>
<li><code>thumbnail_size</code> (string/array) – default thumbnail  – Size of the thumbnail image. Refer to https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail#Thumbnail_Sizes</li>
<li><code>order_by</code> (date,title, random) – default date – Whether to order by date or by title or show them randomly</li>
<li><code>order</code> (asc,desc) – default desc – To change the order in which the posts are displayed.</li>
<li><code>author</code> (bool) – default FALSE – To display author name or not.</li>
<li><code>date</code> (bool) – default FALSE – To display post date or not.</li>
<li><code>content</code> (bool) – default FALSE – To display post content or not.</li>
<li><code>content_filter</code> (bool) – default TRUE Whether to enable or disable content filter</li>
<li><code>exclude_current_post</code> (bool) – default TRUE – To exclude current post/page.</li>
<li><code>tag_links</code> (bool) – default FALSE – To display link to tag archive page or not.</li>
<li><code>link_target</code> (string) – default empty – target attribute for the permalink links.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition to the above options the following options are available in the <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/posts-by-tag/pro-addons" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro addon</a></p>
<ul>
<li><code>campaign</code> (string) – The Google Analytics campaign code that needs to be appended to every link</li>
<li><code>event</code> (string) – The Google Analytics events code that needs to be appended to every link</li>
</ul>
<p>You can checkout <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/posts-by-tag#example-template" rel="nofollow ugc">some example PHP code</a> that shows how you can call the template function with different options.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>You can also include the following shortcode in your blog posts or WordPress page, to display the posts from the set of tags.</p>
<pre><code>posts-by-tag tags = "tag1, tag2"]
</code></pre>
<p>All the parameters that are accepted by the template tag can also be used in the shortcode.</p>
<p>You can checkout <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/posts-by-tag#example-shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">some example shortcodes</a> that shows how you can use the shortcode with different options.</p>
<h4>Custom field</h4>
<p>You can also specify the tags for each post or page and a custom title using custom field. The UI for the custom field is available on the right side of the add/edit post/page screen in WordPress admin console.</p>
<h4>Styling using CSS</h4>
<p>The Plugin adds the following CSS classes. If you want to customize the look of the widget then can change it by adding custom styles to these CSS classes and ids.</p>
<ul>
<li>The <code>UL</code> tag has the class <code>posts-by-tag-list</code></li>
<li>Every <code>LI</code> tag has the class <code>posts-by-tag-item</code></li>
<li>Every <code>LI</code> tag also has all tags names to which the post belongs as part of the class attribute</li>
<li>Each <code>LI</code> tag also has the id <code>posts-by-tag-item-{id}</code>, where id is the post id.</li>
<li>Each <code><a></code> tag inside <code>LI</code> that contains title has the class <code>posts-by-tag-item-title</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to output categories of the post as class names(so that you can style them differently), then you can get the code from this <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-display-post-category-classes-in-outputted-code" rel="ugc">forum thread</a>.</p>
<h4>Caching</h4>
<p>If you are using the widget, then the Plugin automatically caches the db queries. This will greatly improve the performance of you page. If this clashes with other Plugins or if you want to manage the cache yourself, then you disable the cache if needed.</p>
<p>However if you are going to use the shortcode or the template directly, then you might have to cache the output yourself.</p>
<h3>Development and Support</h3>
<p>The development of the Plugin happens over at <a href="http://github.com/sudar/posts-by-tag" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>. If you want to contribute to the Plugin, fork the <a href="http://github.com/sudar/posts-by-tag" rel="nofollow ugc">project at github</a> and send me a pull request.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with either git or Github then refer to this <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/contributing-to-project-hosted-in-github" rel="nofollow ugc">guide to see how fork and send pull request</a>.</p>
<p>If you are looking for ideas, then you can start with one of the following TODO items 🙂</p>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<p>The following are the features that I am thinking of adding to the Plugin, when I get some free time. If you have any feature request or want to increase the priority of a particular feature, then let me know by adding them to <a href="http://github.com/sudar/posts-by-tag/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">github issues</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Provide template tags for widget title, that will be dynamically expanded.</li>
<li>Add support for custom post types</li>
<li>Ability to sort posts alphabetically</li>
<li>Ability to <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/posts-by-tag#comment-783250" rel="nofollow ugc">exclude posts by id</a></li>
<li>Ability to <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/posts-by-tag#comment-783248" rel="nofollow ugc">show comment count</a></li>
<li>Ability to <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/posts-by-tag#comment-780935" rel="nofollow ugc">retrieve posts by date range</a></li>
<li>Ability to pull posts randomly. – Added in v3.0</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you have found a bug/issue or have a feature request, then post them in <a href="http://github.com/sudar/posts-by-tag/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">github issues</a></li>
<li>If you have a question about usage or need help to troubleshoot, then post in WordPress forums or leave a comment in <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/posts-by-tag" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugins’s home page</a></li>
<li>If you like the Plugin, then kindly leave a review/feedback at <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-by-tag/" rel="ugc">WordPress repo page</a>.</li>
<li>If you find this Plugin useful or and wanted to say thank you, then there are ways to <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/if-you-wanna-thank-me" rel="nofollow ugc">make me happy</a> 🙂 and I would really appreciate if you can do one of those.</li>
<li>Checkout other <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugins</a> that I have written</li>
<li>If anything else, then contact me in <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">twitter</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translation</h3>
<ul>
<li>Swedish (Thanks Gunnar Lindberg Årneby)</li>
<li>Turkish (Thanks Yakup Gövler)</li>
<li>Belorussian (Thanks FatCow)</li>
<li>German (Thanks Renate)</li>
<li>Dutch (Thanks Rene)</li>
<li>Hebrew (Thanks Sagive SEO)</li>
<li>Spanish (Thanks Brian Flores of InMotion Hosting)</li>
<li>Bulgarian (Thanks Nikolay Nikolov of [IQ Test)</li>
<li>Lithuanian (Thanks  Vincent G)</li>
<li>Hindi (Thanks Love Chandel)</li>
<li>Gujarati (Thanks Punnet of Resolutions Mart)</li>
</ul>
<p>The pot file is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.</p>
<h3>Readme Generator</h3>
<p>This Readme file was generated using <a href='http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-readme' rel="nofollow ugc">wp-readme</a>, which generates readme files for WordPress Plugins.</p>


Posts By Tag

Very nice plugin, man. I was going to build something myself, but then I found yours. Thanks for saving me a lot of time!

I use the shortcode and it works perfect!

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<p>The Tag Groups plugin allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more. You can customize your term displays with a huge number of options and use them in posts, pages, blocks, or shortcodes.</p>
<h3>All the Features in Tag Groups</h3>
<p>The Free version of the Tag Groups plugin comes with the following features. All of these features are available as both shortcodes and also Gutenberg blocks.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tag List:</strong> Tags appear in columns, sorted into groups. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/tag-list/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Tabbed Tag Cloud:</strong> A tag cloud where tags are sorted into groups that appear in tabs. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/tabbed-tag-cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Accordion Tag Cloud:</strong> A tag cloud where tags are sorted into vertically stacked accordion groups. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/accordion-tab-cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Alphabetical Tag Cloud:</strong> Tags are sorted alphabetically by first letter under tabs. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/alphabetical-tabs/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Alphabetical Tag Index:</strong> Tag appear in columns, sorted alphabetically by first letter. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/alphabetical-index/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Post List:</strong> Display posts with a specific tag or in a particular tag group. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/post-list/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Pro version of the Tag Groups plugin also has these extra features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tag Cloud:</strong> This is an advanced version of a traditional Tag Cloud, with many customization options. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Table Tag Cloud:</strong> This feature organizes tags in a table, with groups as headers. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/table-tag-cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Shuffle Box:</strong> This is a tag cloud that allows you to filter the tags by their names or by their tag groups. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/shuffle-box/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Tag Cloud Search</strong>: Add a search box to any of our static tag displays: Cloud, Tabs, Accordion, or Table. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/tag-cloud-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Toggle Post Filter</strong>: This allows users to dynamically search for posts that have tags they choose. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/post-filter-tags-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic Post Filter</strong>: This aallows users to dynamically search for posts via a dropdown menu showing tags. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/post-filter-dropdown-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Tag Groups Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Upgrade to Tag Groups Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of TaxoPress. The Pro version of Tag Groups has extra features and expert support. <a href="https://taxopress.com/tag-groups" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to organize your terms with the Tag Groups Pro plugin now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Why Organize Terms Into Groups?</h3>
<p>Most WordPress sites mix up terms into one big messy group. In most cases, terms should actually be separated by topics: places, people, features, years and more.</p>
<p>Your term however, will become much more useful if you organize them in groups. Imagine a tag cloud where all places appear in a “Places” group, all names under “Names” and all years under “Years”. The Tag Groups plugin lets you do exactly that.</p>
<p>The plugin gives you many term displays. You can also customize them, append or prepend something to each tag. You can add separators, choose the link target, set the smallest and the largest font size, display the post count and much more.</p>
<h3>Does Tag Groups Only Work With Tags?</h3>
<p>No. Tag Groups works also great with most other (flat) taxonomies, such as WooCommerce product tags.</p>
<p>The plugin does not support hierarchical taxonomies like categories.</p>
<h3>Does Tag Groups Work with Multilingual Websites?</h3>
<p>Yes, this plugin is officially compatible with <strong>WPML</strong>, the WordPress Multilingual plugin. This means you can use a different tag group name for each language.</p>
<h3>Tag Groups Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Upgrade to Tag Groups Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of TaxoPress. The Pro version of TaxoPress has extra features and expert support. <a href="https://taxopress.com/tag-groups" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to organize, optimize and showcase your content with TaxoPress now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>The TaxoPress and Tag Groups plugins</h3>
<p>TaxoPress is developed by the same team that support the popular <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-tags/" rel="ugc">TaxoPress plugin</a>. Together Tag Groups and TaxoPress are an excellent solution for organizing and displaying your site’s content.</p>
<h3>Tag Groups Bug Reports</h3>
<p>Bug reports for Tag Groups are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/taxopress/tag-groups" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, but a place to report bugs in the plugn that can be replicated outside of a single site.</p>
<h3>Follow the TaxoPress team</h3>
<p>Follow TaxoPress on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/taxopress" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.twitter.com/taxopress" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@taxopress" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a>.</p>


Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms

I'm not easily impressed by a plugin - but Tag Cloud has me more than impressed - I'm a fan! Not just the great features, but also the documentation is superb.

Excellent, many features and options

Tag Groups allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more.

Posts By Tag vs Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms