michaelha

<p>Adds a shortcode [wp_list_posts]. For example [wp_list_posts category=3 numberposts=7] will return an unordered list of the most recent 7 posts in the category ID 3.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>This shortcode can be rendered inside a post, page or even in a widget area. Refer to the template tag https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts for input parameter.</p>


WP List Posts Shortcode

Adds a shortcode [wp_list_posts]. For example [wp_list_posts category=3 numberposts=7] will return an unordered list of the most recent 7 posts in the …

Niraj Shah

<p>This simple shortcode plugin allows you to list posts as a bulleted list linking to the full article. You can limit<br />
the list to posts from a specific category and you can select the number of posts to show. The <code>order</code> and<br />
    orderby options lets you sort the list too.</p>
<p>Usage is simple. Create a page or post and use the code <code>[showposts category="2" num="4"]</code> – this will show<br />
all 4 posts from category 2. Another example <code>[showposts category="1" num="-1" orderby="date" order="DESC"]</code><br />
shows all the posts from category 1 ordered by the date (newest post first).</p>
<p>By default, only 5 posts are shown (unless you use the <code>num</code> option) and sorting in by date (oldest to newest).</p>
<h3>Example</h3>
<p>You can see two examples of the code working at the following links:</p>
<ul>
<li>https://www.xtremeps3.com/ps5-firmware-history/</li>
<li>http://www.xtremeps3.com/firmware-history/</li>
<li>http://www.xtremeps3.com/faqs/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>The shortcode is <code>[showposts]</code></p>
<p>You can use the following parameters to customize what is displayed (all are optional):</p>
<pre><code>[showposts category="2" num="4" order="DESC" orderby="date"]
</code></pre>
<p>Set <code>order</code> to one of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>author</code> – Sort by the numeric author IDs.</li>
<li><code>category</code> – Sort by the numeric category IDs.</li>
<li><code>content</code> – Sort by content.</li>
<li><code>date</code> – Sort by creation date.</li>
<li><code>ID</code> – Sort by numeric post ID.</li>
<li><code>menu_order</code> – Sort by the menu order. Only useful with pages.</li>
<li><code>mime_type</code> – Sort by MIME type. Only useful with attachments.</li>
<li><code>modified</code> – Sort by last modified date.</li>
<li><code>name</code> – Sort by stub.</li>
<li><code>parent</code> – Sort by parent ID.</li>
<li><code>password</code> – Sort by password.</li>
<li><code>rand</code> – Randomly sort results.</li>
<li><code>status</code> – Sort by status.</li>
<li><code>title</code> – Sort by title.</li>
<li>
<p><code>type</code> – Sort by type.</p>
<p>orderby can be one the following:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>DESC</p>
</li>
<li>ASC</li>
</ul>


Show Post Shortcode

Shortcode to display posts as a bulleted list. You can also use parameters order and orderby to sort the list.

WP List Posts Shortcode vs Show Post Shortcode