The Posts to Posts plugin lets you to make connections between content types on your site. You could create a posts_to_pages connection for connecting relevant news articles to a specific page. For further reading, see the Posts to Posts documentation and my tutorial on Manually Curated Related Posts. With the code snippet below, you can […]
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.
Meta Queries
You can query for posts based on their metadata using a Meta Query. For instance, WordPress stores the featured image using the _thumbnail_id meta key. To display the most recent posts that have a featured image, use: You can also sort resorts by meta keys. See the tutorial on displaying popular posts by share count […]
Display results as a table
On Dog Food Advisor we use Display Posts to dynamically list the best dog foods based on different criteria. In some areas we wanted to display these results as a table: The code below updates the listing to a table when the layout=”editors-choice” parameter is set. Shortcode Code
Use headings for post listing
Display Posts has a few simple layouts built-in using the wrapper parameter: wrapper=”ul” creates a bulleted list (default display) wrapper=”ol” creates a numbered list wrapper=”div” creates a listing with no list But none of these options include headings, and they combine everything into a single line of text. Heading Block layout The code below adds […]
Adapt listing layout based on number of items
The Post Grid styling works great if you know how many posts will be returned, but it doesn’t look good to have a single post in a 3 column grid. The code below will add an additional class to the wrapper indicating the number of posts in the result (ex: count-4). You can then adjust […]
List posts that match ALL categories or tags
Display Posts includes many query parameters for determining which posts are shown. If you use the category or category_id parameters and include multiple categories, it will find posts that have any of those categories. If you would like to list only posts that have all of those categories, you can use the taxonomy query parameters. […]
Display random posts
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 […]
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 […]