Balazs

Weart Category Posts Widget is a small simple, rock solid widget with one only one task: 
Display the latest posts with the most beautiful way from the picked category in the sidebar.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pick a category to display posts.</li>
<li>Set the number of displaying posts.</li>
<li>Featured Images (if it is avalible) for the post with two sizes (full, thumbnail)</li>
<li>Enable excerpts to display.</li>
<li>Turn ON / OFF the Date displaying.</li>
<li>Fully Translateable</li>
<li>Minimal CSS, no JS to not causes any conflict with the theme.</li>
</ul>
<h4>More about me</h4>
<a href="http://weartstudio.eu" rel="nofollow ugc"> I am </a> a WordPress developer, check my website for more information about my works.
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>Hungarian – a Magyar fordítást a bővítmény tartalmazza</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin is localized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/" rel="ugc">“Codestyling Localization” plugin</a> and for validating the <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">“Poedit Editor”</a>.

Weart Category Posts Widget

Weart Category Posts Widget displays the latest posts in the sidebar from a picked category with featured image.

Ahsan Rehman

This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of post (or custom post type) links (with title, featured image and exceprt) to a specific author (or multiple authors), category (or multiple categories) and tag (or multiple tags). It can be called either with a shortcode or from within a theme file.
To call it with a shortcode, use <code>[latest]</code> below are the attributes you can use with this shortcode: 
* Authors: 
 [latest author=”username or multiple usernames separated by comma”] 
* Category: 
 [latest category=”category name or names separated by comma”] 
* Tag: 
 [latest tag=”tag name or names separated by comma”] 
* Post Type: 
 [latest post_type=”post type name”] 
* Show Posts: 
 [latest show=”number of posts to show”] 
* Show Excerpt: 
 [latest excerpt=”true (default is false)”] 
* Show Thumbnail: 
 [latest thumbnail=”true (default is false)”]
To call it from within a theme template, you have to wrap it in this PHP function: <code><?php echo do_shortcode('your shortcode goes here'); ?></code>

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