emma2334

This plugin makes redirecting category menu item to the latest post in it easy by just clicking a checkbox in admin page.
Adding query <code>?latest</code> to any category url, and it will redirect to the latest post in the category. As long as the redirection option is on, category menu items will be replace into links of latest posts.
Also, pull requests are welcome, check it out on <a href="https://github.com/emma2334/wp-latest-post-in-category" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
[IMPORTANT] Make sure you have any kinds of walker extension code or pluins to customied menu fields in your wordpress, since the plugin doesn’t include this part. The easiest way is to install <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-item-custom-fields/" rel="ugc">Menu Item Custom Fields by Dzikri Aziz</a>.

Redirect to Category Latest Post

Redirect category menu item to the latest post in it.

Anop Goswami

This is one of the best Accordian Slider for displaying latest posts in wordpress.
It is simplest and shortcode based plugin.
It displays featured images of latests posts with title and content in slides.
<h4>There are two options to display slider :</h4>
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To display slider in post or pages use shortcode [lpa]
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To display slider in template files paste the php code <code><?php do_shortcode('[lpa]'); ?></code>
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For best view use featured images of size 600 X 300 and minimum 6 posts.

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