mkerstner

A simple plugin for rendering latest post previews in a list view using shortcode. 
Supports various options to customize output to your needs.
<h4>Supported shortcode options</h4>
<ol>
<li>header: , whether to output header text (default=)</li>
<li>show_featured_image: , whether to output featured post image (default=TRUE)</li>
<li>featured_image_height: , height of featured image in px (default=100)</li>
<li>preview_text_chars: , amount of chars to be displayed for preview text (default=200)</li>
<li>container_css_class: , CSS class of outer container (default=articles-preview-container)</li>
<li>container_article_css_class: , CSS class of article containe (default=article-preview)</li>
<li>append_css_clear: , whether to append a CSS clear container (default=TRUE)</li>
<li>container_left_width: , px or % (default=65%)</li>
<li>container_right_width: , px or % (default=30%)</li>
</ol>

Simple Latest Posts Shortcode

A simple plugin for rendering latest post previews in a list view using shortcode.

mmilan81

This plugin gives you possibility to create bullet lists for your posts. You can choose as many lists as you want and for each list you can select categories to include or to exclude posts.
Your posts can be randomized or sord by date. With title you can chose to show date or number of comments.
Lists can be show wherever you want – above or below posts, in archive, or on single post or page. Also, you can put a widget in a sidbar. You can choose to show lists only on first page or not.
You can modify your themplate to display list of post, add for single column or for multiple columns. If you want to show a list on one page (or post) you can use a shortcode [mm-breaking-news] when you write and the whole bullet list will be displayed.

MM-Breaking News

Displays lists of posts from selected categories. You can select how many different lists you want, sort posts by date or random.

Simple Latest Posts Shortcode vs MM-Breaking News