By default Display Posts will show your posts ordered by publish date, with the newest first. You can use the orderby parameter to change this to any other ordering method. To list random posts, use: You can use the other query parameters along with this to pick from a smaller selection. For instance, if you […]
Author: Bill Erickson
Bill Erickson is a freelance WordPress developer and a contributor to the Genesis framework. For the past 14 years he has worked with attorneys, publishers, corporations, and non-profits, building custom websites tailored to their needs and goals.
Pagination in Display Posts
Unfortunately this plugin does not support pagination. You can use the posts_per_page parameter to decide how many posts to display on the current page, Display Posts will not add previous/next links below this list to explore further. I’m planning to build a Pagination Extension in the near future, once I’ve finished building the Gutenberg block […]
List related posts with the same tag
You can use the shortcode to list recent posts with “my-tag”. But what if you’d like to show other posts in the current post’s tag without having to type it out each time. This is especially useful in widgets and sidebars since you can add the shortcode once and it will automatically update to show […]
Include comment count and link to comments
Display Posts includes many Display Parameters for customizing what is shown for each post in the list. It does not include an option for listing the comment count, but you can add one yourself using the Output Filter. Once the code below has been added to your site, you can include the comments link like […]
Open links in a new window
The links in Display Posts all open in the current window. We can use the output filter to modify this, making all links open in a new window:
Caching queries to improve performance
This is available as a separate plugin: Display Posts – Transient Cache Some users will build very complex queries involving multiple taxonomy and meta queries. These can be computationally expensive to run, and running the query on every uncached pageload is not necessary. We can store the output of the shortcode in a transient – […]
Exclude category
There are a few ways you can exclude posts in certain categories from your listings. By Category ID By default, the category_id parameter limits results to posts IN these categories. For instance, displays posts in the category with an ID of 123. You can use negative numbers to exclude categories. If you want posts in […]
Display inline link with most recent post
Display Posts includes a few different options for wrappers (unordered list, ordered list, and div) but all of these are block-level elements. That means they display as their own unique block on the page. If you want to display the most recent post inside a paragraph, we’ll need to use an inline element. The code snippet […]
Add “delete post” link if user has permission to edit content
If a user is logged in and has permission to edit/delete an article, this snippet will add a “Delete Post” link at the end of the listing for them to do so.
Display or hide sticky posts
WordPress lets you mark posts as “sticky” so they appear at the top of listings, regardless of publish date. You can prevent sticky posts from appearing at the top of Display Posts using: This doesn’t actually exclude sticky posts, it just prevents them from appearing at the top. Display sticky posts After adding the code […]