The Display Posts Shortcode allows users to easily display listings of posts.

Add the shortcode in a post or page, and use the arguments to select based on tag, category, post type, and many other possibilities.

There are also some extra options to display something more than just the title: include_date, include_excerpt, and image_size.

You can also display the list in a Text Widget. See Embed Codes in widgets for details and examples.

For example [display-posts category ="news" ] will give you this:

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The display-posts-shortcode Wiki on GitHub gives more details.

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[display-posts post_type="page" post_parent="743"]

Will show pages whose parent has the id of 743

• WP-PostRatings
• Google analytics data
• Google Language Translator
• Events Organiser
• Google Calendar Embed
• Display Posts Shortcode
• Search Attachments Plugin
• Syndication Plugin
• Jetpack Plugin

 

An easy way to find out the id of a page: In the page editor, click Get Shortlink, this will open a dialog with a link, the number at the end is the post id.

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Here we include an excerpt and the date and limit the number of posts to three.

[display-posts category ="releases" include_excerpt="true" include_date="true" posts_per_page="3"]

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And here we don’t have a list but put each post in a div.

[display-posts category="issues-news-2" include_excerpt="true" wrapper="div" posts_per_page="3"]

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We can use some custom css, this is added via the Jetpack Custom CSS module.

[display-posts category="issues-news-2" include_excerpt="true" wrapper="div" posts_per_page="3" wrapper_class="examplecss"]

 

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.page-id-388 .site-content .entry-header,
         .page-id-388 .site-content .entry-content,
         .page-id-388 .site-content .entry-summary,
         .page-id-388 .site-content .entry-meta,
         .page-id-388 .page-content {
    margin: 0 auto;
    max-width: 800px;
}

/* for display posts shortcode page */
.page-id-1403 .examplecss .listing-item {
    width: 30%;
    float: left;
    padding: 3px;
}

.page-id-1403 .examplecss a.title {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
    background: lightyellow;
    border: solid 1px #ccc;
}

.page-id-1403 .examplecss .excerpt-dash {
    display: none;
}

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If your posts use featured images you can use them too. Here is an screenshot example from the Blogging Bootcamp #2 blog.

 

This uses:

[display-posts category="announcement" wrapper="div" wrapper_class="ann-grid-layout" image_size="thumbnail" order="ASC"]

And this CSS:

.page-id-632 div.listing-item {
    float: left;
    width: 150px;
    margin: 3px;
    border: solid 1px #eee;
    padding: 3px;
}

.page-id-632 .ann-grid-layout {
    width: 500px;
}