chackal_sjc

<p>It’s an easy way to show and order all posts from category/tag into a page/post. Really handy for showing your tutorials, articles, etcetera.<br />
It shows as a list(<ul><li>) so it will apply your blog style-sheet as you wish.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> If the selected term(category or tag) has a description, it will be shown in a <blockquote> tag.</p>
<p>To see it in action click <a href="http://felipetonello.com/blog/tutoriais-e-artigos/" title="Felipe Tonello blog" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>Usage:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Go to Category Show’s options page and generate the tag.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Insert your new tag into your post.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Tags to know:</p>
<p>If you want to apply some CSS, those are the tags you should know: <strong><h3></strong>, <strong><ul></strong>, <strong><li></strong>, <strong><a></strong> and <strong><blockquote></strong>.</p>
<p>Output example:</p>
<pre><code><h3>Category</h3>
<blockquote>Category description, if exists</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a title="link title" rel="bookmark" href="link">title</a></li>
</ul>
</code></pre>
<p>That’s it!</p>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Each topic content preview.</li>
<li>Page support.</li>
<li>A RSS edition of Category Show.</li>
<li>Add widget support.</li>
<li>Select user’s own category in options page. (DONE)</li>
<li>Make it possible to get a date in front of each link.</li>
<li>Create a definitely Category Show tag for the posts. </li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to suggest some feature, please contact me <a href="http://felipetonello.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/category-show/" title="Felipe Tonello blog" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.4.2: Date ordering bug fix.</li>
<li>0.4.1: Added support to show category description if exists. Now the tag generation uses term_id as the expression, not the tag slug anymore.</li>
<li>0.4: Now the user can generate his tag from the Category Show’s options page. No more writing your tag!</li>
<li>0.3.2: Deleted debug messages that was been printed on 0.3.1.</li>
<li>0.3.1: Fixed bug that the content was been all replaced by the list, not just the tag. Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.</li>
<li>0.3: Added support to change the ordering by title or date. Added options page to generate neat tags for the post. Even more optimized!</li>
<li>0.2.3: Fixing <ul> end tag bug. Updating readme.txt file nicely.</li>
<li>0.2.2: Adding screenshot showing how it works and adding pt_BR .mo translation file.</li>
</ul>


Category Show

Shows all posts from a category/tag into a page/post with order support.

Jeff

<p>Use a shortcode to display your posts.  Display them by tag, number of posts, order (asc, desc), orderby (date, time created, none, ID, author, title, parent, rand), pagination (pages), and display the results in one column or two.</p>
<p>Intended to be used with object caching (memcache) for maximum efficiency.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Display Posts tag=’a tag’ pages=’true’ posts=’7′ order=’desc’ orderby=’date’]</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>cat</h4>
<ul>
<li>Category name. Add multiple categories separated by commas. (Note: Using cat and tag will increase query load dramatically)</li>
</ul>
<h4>tag</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tag name. Add mulitiple tags separated by commas.</li>
</ul>
<h4>pages</h4>
<ul>
<li>True or false. Display the posts with pagination or all on one page.</li>
</ul>
<h4>posts</h4>
<ul>
<li>Number of posts to display. If pages is true it is the number of posts per page.</li>
</ul>
<h4>order</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display the posts in descending or ascending order.</li>
</ul>
<h4>orderby (There are many options including)</h4>
<ul>
<li>date</li>
<li>time created</li>
<li>none</li>
<li>ID</li>
<li>author</li>
<li>title</li>
<li>parent</li>
<li>rand</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requires PHP version 5.3.0 or greater.</h4>


L7 Display Posts

This plugin is very efficient.  Updates object cache when post is saved or updated so user never hits an empty cache.  Great for sites with huge numbers of posts and high traffic.



I use it on my site.

Efficiently show posts by tag or category using a simple shortcode.  Utilizes caching for greater speed and fewer database calls.

Category Show vs L7 Display Posts