Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more for WordPress Plugin Directory
Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more is a WordPress app, with a 4.8 average rating from 164 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Bill Erickson. With a rating of 4.8★ from 164 reviews.
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Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more is a category-leading WordPress app with a growing review traction. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 164 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Bill Erickson — established developer track record
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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How Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more works
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Display Posts allows you easily list content from all across your website. Start by adding this shortcode in the content editor to display a list of your most recent posts:
[display-posts]
Filter by Category
To only show posts within a certain category, use the category parameter:
[display-posts category="news"]
Display as Post Grid
You can create a great looking, column-based grid of posts with a bit of styling. Here’s how!
List Popular Posts
You can highlight your popular content in multiple ways. If you want to feature the posts with the most comments, use:
[display-posts orderby="comment_count"]
You can also list most popular posts by social shares.
Include thumbnails, excerpts, and more
The display parameters let you control what information is displayed for each post. To include an image and summary, use:
[display-posts include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail"]
You can use any image size added by WordPress (thumbnail, medium, medium_large, large) OR any custom image size added by your theme or other plugins.
Sort the list however you like
By default the listing will list the newest content first, but you can order by title, menu order, relevance, content type, metadata, and more.
List upcoming events
You can easily list upcoming events from any event calendar. Each plugin will require slightly different code.
Here are tutorials for popular event calendar plugins. If your plugin is not listed here, submit a support request and I’ll add it!
Tutorials
Our tutorials cover common customization requests, and are updated often.
Full Documentation
Query parameters for customizing which posts are listed (filter by category, tag, date…)
Display parameters determine how the posts appear (title, excerpt, image…)
Template parts for Display Posts to perfectly match your theme’s post listings
Output filter for complete control over how the listing looks on your site
Filters for even more powerful customizations for developers
Extensions
Display Posts – Pagination – Allow results of Display Posts to be paginated
Display Posts – Date View – Lets you break your content down by month or year.
Display Posts – Alpha View – Display an alphabetical listing of your content, broken down by letter
Display Posts – Transient Cache – Cache the output using transients
Co-Authors Plus Addon – multiple authors on posts
Columns Extension – display posts in columns
DPS Exclude Sticky – exclude sticky posts unless specifically requested
DPS Pinch Zoomer – adds support pinch zooming post images on mobile devices and mouse wheel zooming on desktops
Display Posts Shortcode Remote – display posts from a remote WordPress site utilizing the WP REST API.
Keyword rankings
Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.surveyRank #562
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more?
Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 164 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Bill Erickson.