Category Posts Widget

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WordPress Plugin Name: Category Posts Widget
Plugin URL:https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-posts/

Plugin Author: TipTopPress
WordPress profile: TipTopPress

Plugin version: 4.9.18
Last updated: October 12, 2024 (3 months ago)
Tested up to (WP version): WP 6.6.2
Downloaded: 0
Rating: 5 (out of 5)

Description

Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category.

Term and Category based Posts Widget

A premium version of that free widget available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites.

Premium features

Auto-sizing Grid layout
Custom field support in the Template
Shortcode support in the Template
Image-Slider (or News-Ticker)
Asymmetrical list layouts
Full background images
Masonry responsive grid layout
More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …)
Custom Post Types, Events, Products support
All free features
E-Mail support
More examples on the demo pages

Features

Template to arrange the post details.
The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons.
Font-icon support.
‘Load more’ button / Ajax API
Item Title heading level buttons
Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp)
Shortcode (Easily change all Shortcode options in the customizer).
Date range filter
New date format: Time since plublished
Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private.
Multiple shortcodes at the same site or post.
Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another).
Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode.
Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”.
For editing shortcode adds a Customizer link to the admin-bar (“With one click to the Customizer”).
Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit).
Fluid images (max-width in %).
One thumb dimension can be left empty.
Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail.
Set a default thumbnail.
Hide widget text or text, if there is no post.
Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail.
Option exclude current post.
Option show post author, comment’s count, post date.
Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes
Admin UI: Buttons to easy add post details placeholder.
Multi sites support.

Documentation

Full documentation
Shortcode: Use [catposts] in the content and edit in the customizer
Formatting date and time: See Formatting Date and Time

Contribute

While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at
Github (If possible with a pull request).

FAQ

Template, placeholder and post detail

Here You can control the Post Detail parts, which appears as part of the post item. All post detail will placed as placeholder. The text in the Template area can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or HTML for SVG icons.

How it works? and examples.

For more layout options please try our premium widget: Term and Category based Posts Widget.

Use SVG icons

For SVG font-icon HTML we recommend the WordPress Dashicons, which are included as default and can be used without any font-icon including.

How to use Page Bilder plugins like Divi, SiteOrigin Page Builder or Elementor

Read more about Page Builder plugins at our FAQs

The font-size is different from that of other widgets or Theme elements?

Use the option: ‘Disable only font style’ in the General panel.

I want the title as a link pointing to the selected Categorie page?

Is just a single category selected in the Filter panel: Enable the check box “Make widget title link”.
Is ‘All categories’ selected in the Filter panel: Use the text field ‘Title link URL’.

Screenshots:

Front end of the widget with SVG font-icon support for post formats, hover effects and the Template text-area.
Template to arrange the post details with placeholders.
Edit the widget options with the customizer.
Use shortcode [catposts] in the content.
The widget configuration dialog.
Widget behaviour settings for each user.