WP Copy Defender

<h3>SHOW A LIST OF LATEST POSTS</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>SEO-friendly and lightweight code</h4>
<p>This plugin contains lightweight code to be very fast to load, <strong>SEO-friendly</strong>, 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.</p>
<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>
<p>In order to display a list of latest posts using this plugin in your website, you have 2 easy options to have maximum flexibility.</p>
<p><strong>OPTION 1: Use a shortcode</strong></p>
<p>In order to display the output in your specific posts or pages use this code:</p>
<pre><code>[Recent_Posts title="custom-title"]
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre><code>[Recent_Posts]
</code></pre>
<p>In order to display the output in your WordPress template use this code:<br />
    <code><?php echo do_shortcode( '[Recent_Posts title="custom-title"]' ); ?></code></p>
<p><strong>OPTION 2: Use a widget</strong><br />
Go to <strong>Appearance</strong> > <strong>Widgets</strong> and add <strong>Recent_Posts</strong> widget where you want to show it.</p>


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<p>Smart Posts Grid is a Blog shortcode to query posts by many conditions and display in many pre-built layouts without any CSS. It just works seamlessly in your theme.</p>
<h4>Main Features:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Query posts by many conditions</li>
<li>9 Pre-built layouts, without any custom CSS</li>
<li>Supports Visual Composer plugin</li>
<li>Ajax query posts</li>
</ol>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>[s_post_grid post_type=” count=” condition=” order=” cats=” tags=” ids=” layout=” show_category_tag=” filter_style=” show_meta=” column=” id=” title=” title_link=” heading_icon=” heading_bg=” layout=” heading_style=” view_all_text=”]</p>
<p>All parameters are optional</p>
<ul>
<li>post_type – string – Name of Custom Post Type to query. Default is ‘post’</li>
<li>count – int – Number of posts to query. Default is 10</li>
<li>condition – select – Condition to query posts. Default is ‘latest’. Support ‘comment’, ‘view’ (require Top 10 plugin), ‘like’ (require WTI Like Post plugin), ‘random’</li>
<li>order – select – ASC or DESC</li>
<li>cats – string – List of category slugs or IDs, separated by comma</li>
<li>tags – string – List of tag slugs, separated by comma</li>
<li>ids – string – List of post IDs to query. If this param is used, other params are ignored</li>
<li>layout – select – Select default layout, from 1 to 9</li>
<li>show_category_tag – 1/0 – Show category tag on post thumbnail</li>
<li>filter_style – select – Choose style of category filter. Possible values: 1 (links), 2 (tags), 3 (carousel)</li>
<li>show_meta – 1/0 – Show post meta information</li>
<li>column – select – Choose number of columns to display. Possible values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6</li>
<li>id – string – CSS ID of the grid</li>
<li>title – string – Title of the grid</li>
<li>title_link – URL – Full URL of the title, or the View All button</li>
<li>heading_icon – string – Name of CSS class for icon in heading</li>
<li>view_all_text – string – Text of View All link/button</li>
</ul>
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Smart Post Grid

The best free plugin to display post in many pre-built layouts without any CSS

Easy to use, works very well

Smart Posts Grid is the best plugin to showcase your posts with many pre-built layouts.

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