Niraj Shah

This simple shortcode plugin allows you to list posts as a bulleted list linking to the full article. You can limit 
the list to posts from a specific category and you can select the number of posts to show. The <code>order</code> and 
 orderby options lets you sort the list too.
Usage is simple. Create a page or post and use the code <code>[showposts category="2" num="4"]</code> – this will show 
all 4 posts from category 2. Another example <code>[showposts category="1" num="-1" orderby="date" order="DESC"]</code> 
shows all the posts from category 1 ordered by the date (newest post first).
By default, only 5 posts are shown (unless you use the <code>num</code> option) and sorting in by date (oldest to newest).
<h3>Example</h3>
You can see two examples of the code working at the following links:
<ul>
<li>https://www.xtremeps3.com/ps5-firmware-history/</li>
<li>http://www.xtremeps3.com/firmware-history/</li>
<li>http://www.xtremeps3.com/faqs/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
The shortcode is <code>[showposts]</code>
You can use the following parameters to customize what is displayed (all are optional):
<pre><code>[showposts category="2" num="4" order="DESC" orderby="date"]
</code></pre>
Set <code>order</code> to one of the following:
<ul>
<li><code>author</code> – Sort by the numeric author IDs.</li>
<li><code>category</code> – Sort by the numeric category IDs.</li>
<li><code>content</code> – Sort by content.</li>
<li><code>date</code> – Sort by creation date.</li>
<li><code>ID</code> – Sort by numeric post ID.</li>
<li><code>menu_order</code> – Sort by the menu order. Only useful with pages.</li>
<li><code>mime_type</code> – Sort by MIME type. Only useful with attachments.</li>
<li><code>modified</code> – Sort by last modified date.</li>
<li><code>name</code> – Sort by stub.</li>
<li><code>parent</code> – Sort by parent ID.</li>
<li><code>password</code> – Sort by password.</li>
<li><code>rand</code> – Randomly sort results.</li>
<li><code>status</code> – Sort by status.</li>
<li><code>title</code> – Sort by title.</li>
<li>
<code>type</code> – Sort by type.
orderby can be one the following:
</li>
<li>
DESC
</li>
<li>ASC</li>
</ul>

Show Post Shortcode

Shortcode to display posts as a bulleted list. You can also use parameters order and orderby to sort the list.

zymeth25

This plugin adds a graphical shortcode creator for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/list-category-posts/" rel="ugc">List Category Posts</a> plugin by Fernando Briano. The creator is available in WordPress editor by clicking the ‘LCP’ button of the editor’s toolbar.
This means you can use the shortcode creator in:
<ul>
<li>Post Editing Screen</li>
<li>Text Widgets</li>
<li>Gutenberg’s ‘Classic’ block</li>
<li>and wherever the WYSIWYG editor is used in plugins and themes</li>
</ul>
Make sure you have read the <a href="https://github.com/picandocodigo/List-Category-Posts/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">LCP plugin’s detailed documentation</a> as well as its readme to understand its features and potential. This is important because even though the GUI provided here tries to make things easily understandable on the front-end, it does not explain all features of the base plugin in detail.
<h3>How to use the plugin</h3>
Clicking the ‘LCP’ button opens a modal window with a form.
The shortcode creator has two sections, divided in two tabs:
<ol>
<li>Selection options</li>
<li>Display options</li>
</ol>
‘Selection options’ allow you to choose which posts to include while ‘Display options’ manage what information about selected posts is displayed and what <a href="https://github.com/picandocodigo/List-Category-Posts/wiki/HTML-&-CSS-Customization" rel="nofollow ugc">HTML & CSS customizations</a> are applied.
Once you are happy with your selected options, just click the ‘Insert into editor’ button located at the bottom of the modal window. It will automatically insert a properly formated List Category Posts shortcode into WordPress editor. You can change the position at which the shortcode is inserted by moving the cursor in the editor.
<h3>List Category Posts parameters reference</h3>
Below is a list of shortcode creator’s sections together with corresponding shortcode parameters. This is intended to help you navigate List Category Post’s documentation.
<h3>Selection options</h3>
<ul>
<li>Categories: <code>id</code>, <code>categorypage</code>, <code>child_categories</code></li>
<li>Tags: <code>tags</code>, <code>exclude_tags</code>, <code>current_tags</code></li>
<li>Custom taxonomies: <code>taxonomy</code>, <code>terms</code>, <code>taxonomies_and</code>, <code>taxonomies_or</code></li>
<li>Post type & status: <code>post_type</code>, <code>post_status</code></li>
<li>Custom fields: <code>customfield_name</code>, <code>customfield_value</code></li>
<li>Exclude posts: <code>exclude_posts</code></li>
<li>Author: <code>author_posts</code></li>
<li>Date: <code>monthnum</code>, <code>year</code>, <code>after</code>, <code>before</code></li>
<li>Search: <code>search</code></li>
<li>Post title firts character: <code>starting_with</code></li>
<li>Offset: <code>offset</code></li>
<li>Parent post: <code>post_parent</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>Display options</h3>
<ul>
<li>Pagination, Number of posts & Order: <code>pagination</code>, <code>numberposts</code>, <code>order</code>, <code>orderby</code></li>
<li>List-specific options: <code>conditional_title</code>, <code>catlink</code>, <code>catname</code>, <code>category_description</code>, <code>morelink</code>, <code>class</code></li>
<li>Post-specific options: <code>author</code>, <code>comments</code>, <code>content</code>, <code>customfield_display</code>, <code>customfield_display_separately</code>, <code>customfield_display_glue</code>, <code>customfield_display_name</code>, <code>customfield_display_name_glue</code>, <code>date</code>, <code>date_modified</code>, <code>excerpt</code>, <code>excerpt_overwrite</code>, <code>excerpt_strip</code>, <code>excerpt_size</code>, <code>display_id</code>, <code>post_suffix</code>, <code>posts_morelink</code>, <code>tags_as_class</code>, <code>title_limit</code>, <code>link_titles</code>, <code>no_post_titles</code>, <code>thumbnail</code>, <code>force_thumbnail</code>, <code>thumbnail_size</code></li>
<li>Template: <code>template</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
GUI for List Category Posts is open source software. You can find the 
development version of the plugin on <a href="https://github.com/klemens-st/gui-for-lcp" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.
All suggestions and contributions are welcome 🙂 Fork it, read the respository’s 
readme and start helping with the development!
This is a very early version of GUI for List Category Posts so users’ feedback is more than welcome 🙂
<h3>Support the plugin</h3>
If you have found this plugin useful and would like to support its further development please consider 
<a href="https://github.com/sponsors/klemens-st/" rel="nofollow ugc">sponsoring it on GitHub</a> or <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=BX4TN5Z4MSX52" rel="nofollow ugc">donating on PayPal</a> 🙂
<h3>User Support</h3>
Please use the support forum for questions about using the plugin. Use Github issues for discussing code changes and bugs.

GUI for List Category Posts

This plugin adds a graphical shortcode creator for the List Category Posts plugin, accessible via the "LCP" button in WordPress editor.

Show Post Shortcode vs GUI for List Category Posts