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