Posts per Cat

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.

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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 prefix

• posts=5 – Number of headlines per category block

• porderby=date – Order posts by date, modified, title, name, ID, author

• porder=DESC – Order sorting DESC or ASC

• titlelen=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 length

• thumb=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)

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%