Add Posts to Pages

Easily add posts to pages with this super lightweight plugin. You can add them anywhere on the page (top, middle, bottom), all just as easy as the next.

Just choose:

• Number of posts to show
• Post cateogry to pull from
• Any number of tags to pull from

More options:

• To show the full post or just the title
• To show the feature post thumbnail (or not)
• Heading size to use ()

An voila – you’ve ADDED a filter list of posts to whatever page you want!

Future updates

1. Ability to choose unordered (bullets) or ordered (numbered) list
2. Bunch of tweaks to give you more options
3. Whatever you want.. just leave feedback with feature requests 🙂

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working:

1. Download add-posts-to-pages.zip by clicking the “Download” on this page
2. From your WordPress admin menu, click Plugins -> Add New
3. Click “Upload” link at the top of the page
4. Upload add-posts-to-pages.zip to your WordPress
5. Activate the plugin by clicking “Activate plugin”
6. Use [add_posts category=category-slug tag=tag-slug show=5] anywhere in the content of your posts to add posts to your pages
7. Visit the following page for usage instructions

http://www.webmechanix.com/wordpress-plugins/add-posts-pages/

Here’s the full documentation / usage instructions:
http://www.webmechanix.com/wordpress-plugins/add-posts-pages/

Installation Instructions

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working:

1. Download add-posts-to-pages.zip by clicking the “Download” on this page
2. From your WordPress admin menu, click Plugins -> Add New
3. Click “Upload” link at the top of the page
4. Upload add-posts-to-pages.zip to your WordPress
5. Activate the plugin by clicking “Activate plugin”
6. Use [add_posts category=category-slug tag=tag-slug show=5] anywhere in the content of your posts to add posts to your pages
7. Visit the following page for usage instructions

http://www.webmechanix.com/wordpress-plugins/add-posts-pages/

Your question here…

Send me your questions … “plugins [at] webmechanix.com”

I’ll set up a github soon 🙂

1. 

   3 simple steps:
   1. Add a shortcode to your page's content using these options: http://www.webmechanix.com/wordpress-plugins/add-posts-pages/
   2. Update that page.
   
   3. View that page (adjust options as needed).

2. 

   Showing step 1: adding the shortcode to your page content.

3. 

   Another exmaple using post thumbnails.

1.4.1

• Added .readmore class to the read more link (so you can target & style it 🙂

1.4

• Fixed full=false issue where it would show full post if you specified full=false
• Added do_shortcode to allow for full posts to render shortcodes that are in the post
• Added ability to break content at “read more” point

1.3.1

• Fixed NextGen Gallery (and probably other plugin) conflict.

1.3

• Changed from query_posts to get_posts — This should fix some interference with other plugins

1.2.6

[IMPORTANT FOR STYLING] If you or your webmaster has made CSS (style or look & feel) changes to how this plugin outputs, please note the below:

• [IMPORTANT FOR STYLING] CHANGED class for full post from “add_posts” to “add_posts_content”
• [STYLING] ADDED clearing styles to headers in hope to help normalize output across all stylesheets: <h# style=”clear:both;>”
• [STYLING] ADDED final clearing div to clear floats (should help styling out of the box)

1.2.5

• [STYLING] ADDED class=”add_posts” wrapper for CSS targeting

1.2

• ADDED ability to show full post
• ADDED ability to show feature post thumbnail
• ADDED ability to choose heading size for post title

1.0.1

• ADDED links to usage instructions

1.0

• Release of the plugin! 🙂