Samuel Coskey

This is another simple plugin to show a list of posts from your blog. 
Use the <code>[postlist]</code> shortcode on any post or page.
The shortcode supports several options:
<ul>
<li>
category: If defined, show posts only from this category. 
Specify the category using its slug identifier. If you provide 
multiple comma-seperated category slugs then they will all be 
included.
</li>
<li>
tag: If defined, show posts only from this tag. Specify the tag 
using its slug identifier. If you provide multiple comma-seperated 
tag slugs then they will all be included.
</li>
<li>
style: One of list (default) or post. If it 
is list, then the list style is indented and bulleted. If it is post 
then the title is promoted to <code><h2 class="upcoming-entry-title"></code> and 
the list style is plain.
</li>
<li>
text: One of none (default), excerpt, excerpt-formatted, 
or normal. If it is excerpt, then the post excerpt is shown, similar 
to search results. If it is normal then the full post (up to 
the <code>[more]</code> tag) is shown.
</li>
<li>
more_text: Specify the text to append onto truncated excerpts. 
Defaults to <code>...</code>.
</li>
<li>
null_text: If no results are returned, shows this text. 
Defaults to <code>(none)</code>.
</li>
<li>
class_name: If defined, adds this class name to the generated <code><ul></code> 
element. Useful for custom styling.
</li>
<li>
show_date: If defined, the post date will precede the post title.
</li>
<li>
date_format: If showing the date, this php date format will be 
used. The default is the Date Format value from the General Settings 
page. I recommend <code>"F j, Y"</code>, which displays as “May 12, 2012”.
</li>
<li>
q: Arbitrary &-separated arguments to add to the query. See the 
<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query/#Parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_Query</a> 
page for available syntax. For example, to show only three posts and 
you want to show them in ascending instead of descending order, you would 
write <code>[postlist q="posts_per_page=3&order=ASC"]</code>.
</li>
</ul>
The output can then be further formatted using CSS. We recommend the 
plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imporved-simpler-css/" rel="ugc">Improved Simpler 
CSS</a> for 
quickly styling your post list (and your site)!
This plugin can also be easily made into a widget by placing the shortcode 
into a text widget, and activating the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcodes-in-sidebar/" rel="ugc">Shortcodes in 
sidebar</a> 
plugin.
Report bugs, give feedback, or fork this plugin on 
<a href="http://github.com/scoskey/Simple-post-listing-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

Simple post listing

Use the [postlist] shortcode to show a list of posts.

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.

Simple post listing vs GUI for List Category Posts