Include posts in a Page, by category, a selection of tags or by author with auto summary (read more) option. Supports pagination.
Include posts in a Page, by category, a selection of tags or by author with an auto summary (read more) option. Supports pagination when number of posts per page is specified.
For example if you want a Page (in the main header navigation) to show a list of all posts in a category or set of tags and summarise the posts then this plugin will do it. Add a simple shortcode to the page (in HTML view) and the page is generated from the matching posts.
Screenshots
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- The first image in a post will be place at the start using the WP thumbnail if it is available. If images are a problem they can be hidden using: hide_images=’true’
- Pagination is added if number of posts is specifified (i.e. num=’3′)
- “Read More” Text can be specified (i.e. read_more=’More Here’)
- Pagination link text can be specified using ‘prev_text’ and ‘next_text’
- Each summary posts is contained in a div with class=”pfpItem”, so you can override styles by setting them in the WP stylesheet “styles.css”. E.g “.div.pfpItem{font-size:20px;}”
- Source code for extending can be found on github https://github.com/shibbard/posts-for-page
Installation Instructions
- Upload
plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Create (or edit) a page. Switch to HTML view.
- Insert the shortcode: [posts-for-page cat_slug=’your-category-slug’] (to display all posts from this category)
- Add any additional options, it will default to 50 words with the read-more link or set show_full_posts=’true’ to show full post content.
Example Usage:
[posts-for-page cat_slug=’asp-net-programming-2′ hide_images=’false’ num=’5′ read_more=’
Read More »’ show_full_posts=’false’ use_wp_excerpt=’true’ strip_html=’true’ hide_post_content=’false’ show_meta=’true’]
1.0
1.1
1.2
- Fixed limit to number of posts which would be displayed
1.3
1.4
- Fixed header tag to be H2
- Removes all images and inserts first image (if found) at start of post using WP Thumbnail version
- If images are a problem they can be hidden using: hide_images=’true’
1.5
- Pagination added if number of posts is specifified (i.e. num=’3′)
- “Read More” Text can be specified (i.e. read_more=’
More Here’)
- Pagination link text can be specified using ‘prev_text’ and ‘next_text’
- show_full_posts=’true’ – will show the full post content.
1.6
- Number of display issues resolved
- new options added
- use_wp_excerpt – set to ‘true’ to show the WP generated excerpt or the excerpt if defined for the post
- strip_html – set to ‘true’ attempts to strip all HTML content (if not using use_wp_excerpt option)
- hide_post_content – set to ‘true’ to only show the post titles
- show_meta – set to ‘true’ to show post date and author name
1.61
- hide_post_title : set to ‘true’ to hide the post title, e.g. if you just want to show one post using post_id
1.7
- added create_para_tags
- fixed a bug with hide_read_more
1.71
- added order (ASC or DESC) for the order_by parameter
1.73
1.74
- fixed bug with attached images
1.75
- fixed bug with use_wp_excerpt
1.80
- added – force_excerpt_image : set to ‘true’ to attempt to get an image from the post content even if no thumbnail is set for the excerpt
1.90
- added – force_image_height and force_image_width : force the dimensions of the image used in the post excerpt
1.92
- Removed force_excerpt_image – Will always attempt to get an image unless set to hidden
2.00
- Changed name of function image_resize to avoid WP conflicts
2.1
- Fix formatting issues especially for full posts
2.2
