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.

Paolo T. (pixline)

swergroup

Category Pages & Posts Shortcodes offers helpful shortcodes to display a post or page content, or a list of posts. 
It also allow an exclusive relationship between a Category and a Page, in order to display the page content as “header” of category archives, with a simple php tag.
You can safely use shortcodes inside a post or a page, you can embed them in your templates or in your sidebar 
using the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">do_shortcode</a> WordPress function, like that:
<pre><code><?php do_shortcode('[showsingle <options>"]'); ?>
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dev.swergroup.com/pages-and-posts-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation and usage examples</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/page2cat">Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/swergroup/category-pages-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://travis-ci.org/swergroup/category-pages-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Build status on Travis CI</a></li>
</ul>
This plugin is published under GPL2 open source license by <a href="http://swergroup.com/sviluppo/siti-internet-torino/" rel="nofollow ugc">SWER Sviluppo siti internet Torino</a>. If you find it useful, please <a href="https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=swergroup&url=https://wordpress.org/plugins/page2cat/&title=Page2Cat%20WP%20plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Flattr this!</a>

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