Category Posts Widget

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).