Attachments vs Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more

Extensive usage instructions are available on GitHub Attachments allows you to simply append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types. Associate Media items with posts The idea behind Attachments is to give developers the ability to directly associate Media items with any post. This is accomplished by adding a meta box to post edit screens as determined by the developer. Once Media items have been associated with a post, you’re able to retrieve those Attachments and include them directly within your template files using any specific markup you wish. Integrate Attachments within your theme with fine grained control Attachments does not automatically integrate itself with your theme. Since the idea behind Attachments is to allow integration of Media within posts using developer-crafted, unique markup, it’s up to you to integrate with your theme. The most basic integration includes editing the appropriate template file and adding your call(s) to Attachments. For example, if you have set up Attachments to be used with your Posts entries, edit single.php to include the following within The Loop: exist() ) : ?> Attachments Total Attachments: total(); ?> get() ) : ?> ID: id(); ?> Type: type(); ?> Subtype: subtype(); ?> URL: url(); ?> Image: image( 'thumbnail' ); ?> Source: src( 'full' ); ?> Size: filesize(); ?> Title Field: field( 'title' ); ?> Caption Field: field( 'caption' ); ?> That snippet will request all of the existing Attachments defined for the current Post within The Loop, and retrieve each itemized property for that Attachment. Using the provided details you’re able to integrate the attached Media items in any way you please. There is a lot more information on Attachments’ GitHub page. Please contribute! Roadmap Please see Attachments on GitHub Usage Extensive usage instructions are available on GitHub

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.