Posts per Cat [Unmaintained] (posts-per-cat) free WordPress plugin

Posts per Cat is a simple plugin that grab all or only selected categories from blog database, and then list recent N posts from each category, organised in 1-5 columns.

IMPORTANT NOTICE
Plugin Posts-per-Cat is unmaintained. That means no further updates or free plugin support will be available.

If you are interested to acquisition of plugin, please contact us.

Features

• choose how many boxes per row will be displayed (one, two, three, four or five)
• define number of post titles to display per category
• define category ID’s to exclude
• define category ID’s to include
• toggle displaying of child categories
• ordering boxes by category ID, title or custom (manually entered category ID’s as include list)
• toggle displaying sticky posts
• toggle usage of custom list CSS
• SEO optimized permalink URI’s
• integrate to template file, use shortcode [ppc] with options or widget
• ready for localisation
• template system for single post line in box defined by user in plain HTML with macro keywords for post elements

Shortcode options

You can use shortcode [ppc], with options below (set option in shortcode to override default settings above):

• columns=2 – Number of columns (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5)
• minh=0 – Minimal height of box (in px, set to 0 for auto)
• include=category_ID's – Include category (comma separated category ID’s)
• exclude=category_ID's – Exclude category (comma separated category ID’s)
• parent=0 – Only top level categories (0 or 1)
• order=ID – Order categories by (ID, name or custom)
• catonly=0 – Only from displayed category archive (0 or 1)
• noctlink=0 – Do not link category name (0 or 1)
• more=0 – Standalone link to archives (0 or 1)
• moretxt="More from" – Archive link prefix
• posts=5 – Number of headlines per category block
• porderby=date – Order posts by date, modified, title, name, ID, author
• porder=DESC – Order sorting DESC or ASC
• titlelen=34 – Headline length (in characters)
• shorten=0 – Shorten headline (0 or 1)
• commnum=0 – Display comment number (0 or 1)
• nosticky=0 – Hide sticky posts (0 or 1)
• excerpts=none – Show excerpt (none, first or all)
• content=0 – Use post content as excerpt (0 or 1)
• excleng=100 – Excerpt length
• thumb=0 – Show thumbnail with excerpt (0 or 1)
• tsize=60 – Thumbnail size, set size in px for thumbnail width (height is same); or set in format WIDTHxHEIGHT (example 220×123); or set predefined custom image size (thumbnail, small, medium, large, full or cusotm defined)

Since version 1.4.0 you can use template to display custom formatted output (post line element). Example:
[ppc]

%title_short%

<span class="comments-meta">(<a href="%comments_link%">%comments_num% comments</a>)</span>
<span class="date-meta">%date% @ %time%</span>
<span class="author-meta"><a href="%author_posts_url%">%author_displayname%</a></span>
%thumbnail%
%excerpt% <a href="%link%">[read more]</a>
[/ppc]

Supported macros:

• %title%
• %title_short%
• %post_content%
• %excerpt%
• %thumbnail%
• %link%
• %comments_num%
• %comments_link%
• %comments_form_link%
• %datetime%
• %date%
• %time%
• %author_displayname%
• %author_firstname%
• %author_lastname%
• %author_posts_url%