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<h3>SHOW A LIST OF LATEST POSTS</h3>
You can show a list of latest posts in your blog with a few customizations in order to reduce bounce rate and get more pageviews.
<h4>SEO-friendly and lightweight code</h4>
This plugin contains lightweight code to be very fast to load, SEO-friendly, and it is developed to have full compatibility with WordPress 3.1 (2011) up to WordPress 5+ (2019), from PHP 5.6 up to PHP 7.3.
<h4>FEATURES:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show a simple list of the latest blogposts</li>
<li>You can choose the number of posts and the style for the list.</li>
<li>Lightweight code to quickly load the page and keep a good pagespeed score</li>
<li>No cookies are set by this plugin to visitors</li>
<li>Compatible with all resolutions: desktop, tablet and smartphones</li>
</ul>
<h4>HOW TO USE:</h4>
In order to display a list of latest posts using this plugin in your website, you have 2 easy options to have maximum flexibility.
OPTION 1: Use a shortcode
In order to display the output in your specific posts or pages use this code:
<pre><code>[Recent_Posts title="custom-title"]
</code></pre>
or
<pre><code>[Recent_Posts]
</code></pre>
In order to display the output in your WordPress template use this code: 
 <code><?php echo do_shortcode( '[Recent_Posts title="custom-title"]' ); ?></code>
OPTION 2: Use a widget 
Go to Appearance > Widgets and add Recent_Posts widget where you want to show it.

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You can show posts by pre built shortcode. Multiple Shortcodes available with multiple layouts.
You can use attributes in shortcode for more controls.
There are Some example how to use:
1) Use this shortcode to display posts:
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1"]
</code></pre>
See screenshots for layout preview.
2) You can use multiple layout like:
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="2"]

[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="3"]

[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="4"]

[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="5"]
</code></pre>
3) You can use multiple attributes for more controls as below:
Show custom number of posts:
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" no_of_post="6"]
</code></pre>
Show Posts by category:
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" category_id="1"]
</code></pre>
Show Posts by Multiple Category
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" category_id="1,2,3"]
</code></pre>
Show all posts excluded by category
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" exclude_cat="1"]
</code></pre>
Show all posts excluded by multiple category
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" exclude_cat="1,2,3"]
</code></pre>
Show pagination
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" pagination="yes"]
</code></pre>
Hide category label from layout:
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" hide_category="yes"]
</code></pre>
Show number of character in post desciption:
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" desc_length="200"]
</code></pre>
Set custom label for Read More Button:
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" read_more_lebel="Continue Reading >"]
</code></pre>
Show Author name in posts
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" show_author="yes"]
</code></pre>
Show Single post by post id
<pre><code>[show_posts_pbs_rk layout="1" post_id="52"]
</code></pre>
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<h4>Full Features List:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show Post by Shortcode, extra layouts with extra control.</li>
<li>You can use Multiple Shortcode to display multiple posts layout.</li>
<li>You can use Multiple shortcode attributes for more control.</li>
</ul>

Posts By Shortcode

You can show posts by shortcode. Multiple sortcodes for multiple layouts.

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