Category Posts Widget vs Term Management Tools

Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category. Term and Category based Posts Widget A premium version of that free widget available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites. Premium features Auto-sizing Grid layout Custom field support in the Template Shortcode support in the Template Image-Slider (or News-Ticker) Asymmetrical list layouts Full background images Masonry responsive grid layout More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …) Custom Post Types, Events, Products support All free features E-Mail support More examples on the demo pages Features Template to arrange the post details. The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons. Font-icon support. ‘Load more’ button / Ajax API Item Title heading level buttons Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp) Shortcode (Easily change all Shortcode options in the customizer). Date range filter New date format: Time since plublished Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private. Multiple shortcodes at the same site or post. Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another). Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode. Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”. For editing shortcode adds a Customizer link to the admin-bar (“With one click to the Customizer”). Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit). Fluid images (max-width in %). One thumb dimension can be left empty. Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail. Set a default thumbnail. Hide widget text or text, if there is no post. Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail. Option exclude current post. Option show post author, comment’s count, post date. Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes Admin UI: Buttons to easy add post details placeholder. Multi sites support. Documentation Full documentation Shortcode: Use [catposts] in the content and edit in the customizer Formatting date and time: See Formatting Date and Time Contribute While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at Github (If possible with a pull request).

Please note this plugin requires at least PHP 7.1. If you need to reorganize your tags and categories, this plugin will make it easier for you. It adds three new options to the Bulk Actions dropdown on term management pages: Merge – combine two or more terms into one Set Parent – set the parent for one or more terms (for hierarchical taxonomies) Change Taxonomy – convert terms from one taxonomy to another It works with tags, categories and custom taxonomies. Usage Go to the taxonomy page containing terms you want to modify. For example, for categories go to WP-Admin → Posts → Categories. Select the terms you want to reorganize Find the Bulk Actions dropdown, and select the task you’d like done. Disco. WPML WPML-translated terms are partially supported. Currently only the “Change Taxonomy” task is WPML-aware. If a term with translations is moved to a new taxonomy, its translations are moved as well, and the translation relationships are preserved. Currently only the “Change Taxonomy” task is WPML-aware Work on the WPML component was sponsored by the Rainforest Alliance. Support Limited support is handled in the forum created for this purpose (see the support tab on wp.org). Find a problem? Fixes can be submitted on Github. Upgrading from a previous version Use the upgrade link in the Dashboard (Dashboard → Updates) to upgrade this plugin. Notes Initial version of this plugin was by scribu, with contributions from others. See full code history on Github.