Group latest posts by selected category and show post titles w/ or w/o excerpt, featured image and comments number in boxes organized in one, two, thr
| Author: | Aleksandar Urošević (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.8.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.4.25 |
| Plugin version: | 1.4.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 04-03-2009 |
| Last updated: | 28-12-2020
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rated by: | 8 |
| Plugin URI: | http://urosevic.net/wordpress/plugins/posts-p... |
| Total downloads: | 50 812 |
| Active installs: | 700+ |
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Posts per Cat is a simple plugin that grab all or only selected categories from blog database, and then list recent N posts from each category, organised in 1-5 columns.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Plugin Posts-per-Cat is unmaintained. That means no further updates or free plugin support will be available.
If you are interested to acquisition of plugin, please contact us.
Features
- choose how many boxes per row will be displayed (one, two, three, four or five)
- define number of post titles to display per category
- define category ID’s to exclude
- define category ID’s to include
- toggle displaying of child categories
- ordering boxes by category ID, title or custom (manually entered category ID’s as include list)
- toggle displaying sticky posts
- toggle usage of custom list CSS
- SEO optimized permalink URI’s
- integrate to template file, use shortcode [ppc] with options or widget
- ready for localisation
- template system for single post line in box defined by user in plain HTML with macro keywords for post elements
Shortcode options
You can use shortcode [ppc], with options below (set option in shortcode to override default settings above):
columns=2– Number of columns (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5)minh=0– Minimal height of box (in px, set to 0 for auto)include=category_ID's– Include category (comma separated category ID’s)exclude=category_ID's– Exclude category (comma separated category ID’s)parent=0– Only top level categories (0 or 1)order=ID– Order categories by (ID, name or custom)catonly=0– Only from displayed category archive (0 or 1)noctlink=0– Do not link category name (0 or 1)more=0– Standalone link to archives (0 or 1)moretxt="More from"– Archive link prefixposts=5– Number of headlines per category blockporderby=date– Order posts by date, modified, title, name, ID, authorporder=DESC– Order sorting DESC or ASCtitlelen=34– Headline length (in characters)shorten=0– Shorten headline (0 or 1)commnum=0– Display comment number (0 or 1)nosticky=0– Hide sticky posts (0 or 1)excerpts=none– Show excerpt (none, first or all)content=0– Use post content as excerpt (0 or 1)excleng=100– Excerpt lengththumb=0– Show thumbnail with excerpt (0 or 1)tsize=60– Thumbnail size, set size in px for thumbnail width (height is same); or set in format WIDTHxHEIGHT (example 220×123); or set predefined custom image size (thumbnail, small, medium, large, full or cusotm defined)
Since version 1.4.0 you can use template to display custom formatted output (post line element). Example:
[ppc]
%title_short%
<span class="comments-meta">(<a href="%comments_link%">%comments_num% comments</a>)</span>
<span class="date-meta">%date% @ %time%</span>
<span class="author-meta"><a href="%author_posts_url%">%author_displayname%</a></span>
%thumbnail%
%excerpt% <a href="%link%">[read more]</a>
[/ppc]
Supported macros:
%title%%title_short%%post_content%%excerpt%%thumbnail%%link%%comments_num%%comments_link%%comments_form_link%%datetime%%date%%time%%author_displayname%%author_firstname%%author_lastname%%author_posts_url%
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