TechWebUX

Aleksandar Urošević

<p>Posts per Cat is a simple plugin that grab all or only selected categories from blog database, and then list recent N posts from each category, organised in 1-5 columns.</p>
<p>If you are interested to acquisition of plugin, please <a href="https://urosevic.net/wordpress/contact/?subject=Posts-per-Cat%20Acquisition" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>choose how many boxes per row will be displayed (one, two, three, four or five)</li>
<li>define number of post titles to display per category</li>
<li>define category ID’s to exclude</li>
<li>define category ID’s to include</li>
<li>toggle displaying of child categories</li>
<li>ordering boxes by category ID, title or custom (manually entered category ID’s as include list)</li>
<li>toggle displaying sticky posts</li>
<li>toggle usage of custom list CSS</li>
<li>SEO optimized permalink URI’s</li>
<li>integrate to template file, use shortcode [ppc] with options or widget</li>
<li>ready for localisation</li>
<li>template system for single post line in box defined by user in plain HTML with macro keywords for post elements</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode options</h4>
<p>You can use shortcode [ppc], with options below (set option in shortcode to override default settings above):</p>
<ul>
<li><code>columns=2</code> – Number of columns (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5)</li>
<li><code>minh=0</code> – Minimal height of box (in px, set to 0 for auto)</li>
<li><code>include=category_ID's</code> – Include category (comma separated category ID’s)</li>
<li><code>exclude=category_ID's</code> – Exclude category (comma separated category ID’s)</li>
<li><code>parent=0</code> – Only top level categories (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>order=ID</code> – Order categories by (ID, name or custom)</li>
<li><code>catonly=0</code> – Only from displayed category archive (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>noctlink=0</code> – Do not link category name (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>more=0</code> – Standalone link to archives (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>moretxt="More from"</code> – Archive link prefix</li>
<li><code>posts=5</code> – Number of headlines per category block</li>
<li><code>porderby=date</code> – Order posts by date, modified, title, name, ID, author</li>
<li><code>porder=DESC</code> – Order sorting DESC or ASC</li>
<li><code>titlelen=34</code> – Headline length (in characters)</li>
<li><code>shorten=0</code> – Shorten headline (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>commnum=0</code> – Display comment number (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>nosticky=0</code> – Hide sticky posts (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>excerpts=none</code> – Show excerpt (none, first or all)</li>
<li><code>content=0</code> – Use post content as excerpt (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>excleng=100</code> – Excerpt length</li>
<li><code>thumb=0</code> – Show thumbnail with excerpt (0 or 1)</li>
<li><code>tsize=60</code> – Thumbnail size, set size in px for thumbnail width (height is same); or set in format WIDTHxHEIGHT (example 220×123); or set predefined custom image size (thumbnail, small, medium, large, full or cusotm defined)</li>
</ul>
<p>Since version 1.4.0 you can use template to display custom formatted output (post line element). Example:<br />
    [ppc]</p>
<h3><a href="%link%" rel="nofollow ugc">%title_short%</a></h3>
<pre><code><span class="comments-meta">(<a href="%comments_link%">%comments_num% comments</a>)</span>
<span class="date-meta">%date% @ %time%</span>
<span class="author-meta"><a href="%author_posts_url%">%author_displayname%</a></span>
%thumbnail%
%excerpt% <a href="%link%">[read more]</a>
[/ppc]
</code></pre>
<p>Supported macros:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>%title%</code></li>
<li><code>%title_short%</code></li>
<li><code>%post_content%</code></li>
<li><code>%excerpt%</code></li>
<li><code>%thumbnail%</code></li>
<li><code>%link%</code></li>
<li><code>%comments_num%</code></li>
<li><code>%comments_link%</code></li>
<li><code>%comments_form_link%</code></li>
<li><code>%datetime%</code></li>
<li><code>%date%</code></li>
<li><code>%time%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_displayname%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_firstname%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_lastname%</code></li>
<li><code>%author_posts_url%</code></li>
</ul>


Posts per Cat

Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.

weyhan

<p>Post Teaser generates a preview or “teaser” of a post for the main, archive and category pages, with a link underneath to go to the full post page. It includes features to generate a word count, image count, and an estimated reading time.</p>
<h4>Reasons you might want to use Post Teaser:</h4>
<ul>
<li>You keep putting <code></code> into your posts</li>
<li>You would like to save bandwidth by only having people view a full post if they actually want to read it</li>
<li>You just like the “teaser” format</li>
</ul>
<h4>What’s new in this release:</h4>
<p><strong>4.1.5:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Internalization requirement fix as requested by WordPress.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>4.1.4:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Change default teaser template to be more WCAG compliance for accessibility.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>4.1.3:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>More compatibility fix for current WordPress release</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>4.1.2:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Minor bug fix</li>
<li>Compatibility fix for current WordPress release</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>4.1.1:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Fix Post Teaser ignoring Custom Field directive (disable or showall)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>4.1.0:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Added “Advance tease control” feature that allows category or tag to turn off Post Teaser</li>
<li>Added option to disable tease or force fullpost on the homepage</li>
<li>Added option to move post statistic block from the bottom of the post to above the post text</li>
<li>Fix incompatibilities with “Search Unleashed” plugin <strong>The fix is tested in my test env, please report if issue is not resolved</strong></li>
<li>Cleanup UI in Settings page</li>
<li>Misc bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Known issue(s):</h4>
<ul>
<li>Current translation files will not have translation for new options introduced in this release. Apologies to Non-English users of PostTeaser. This problem will exist and will break the translation files further in up coming release due to heavy remodeling the PostTeaser admin page. For translators, please help fix the language files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contributors:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sandboxblogger.com/" title="SandboxBlogger.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WeyHan Ng</a> — Maintainer</li>
<li><a href="http://turnipspatch.com" title="Turnip" rel="nofollow ugc">Jonathan Leighton (Turnip)</a> — Concept and programming</li>
<li><a href="http://ele-zeta.com.ar/" title="eleZeta" rel="nofollow ugc">eleZeta</a> — Estimated reading time code was adapted from his plugin : )</li>
</ul>
<p>**** NOTE: Use <a href="http://sandboxblogger.com/contact/" title="Contact me" rel="nofollow ugc">contact form</a> for support request.</p>
<h4>Translators:</h4>
<ul>
<li>by_BY:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ledleisten.com/" title="Marcis Gasuns" rel="nofollow ugc">Marcis Gasuns</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>de_DE:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://soeren-weber.net/" title="Sören Weber" rel="nofollow ugc">Sören Weber</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>el_GR:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.tech-spot.gr/" title="Alexander Kanakaris" rel="nofollow ugc">Alexander Kanakaris</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>es_ES:
<ul>
<li>Francisco Barroso</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>fr_FR:
<ul>
<li><a href="www.sushilabs.com/" title="David Martin" rel="nofollow ugc">David Martin</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>he_IL:
<ul>
<li>Eyal Gursoy</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>it_IT:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cerbero.eu/" title="Arturo Uggini" rel="nofollow ugc">Arturo Uggini</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>nb_NO:
<ul>
<li>Jørn Pedersen</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>nl_BE, nl_NL:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://mathibus.com/" title="Mathias Bynens" rel="nofollow ugc">Mathias Bynens</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>pl_PL:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ikeris.com/" title="Przemysław Naruszewicz" rel="nofollow ugc">Przemysław Naruszewicz</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>ru_RU:
<ul>
<li>Thomas Gorny</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>sv_EU:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.din-it-kunskap.com/" title="Mansour Sarr" rel="nofollow ugc">Mansour Sarr</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>sv_SE:
<ul>
<li>Fredrik Sandström</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Post Teaser

Post Teaser generates excerpts of posts for the main, archive and category pages, also generate a word count, image count, and estimated reading time.

Posts per Cat vs Post Teaser