WordPress Latest Posts by Ahsan
by Ahsan Rehman on WordPress.org
A plugin which enables you to get latest posts by authors, categories and tags, with featured images, excerpt, works for custom post types as well
This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of post (or custom post type) links (with title, featured image and exceprt) to a specific author (or multiple authors), category (or multiple categories) and tag (or multiple tags). It can be called either with a shortcode or from within a theme file.
To call it with a shortcode, use [latest] below are the attributes you can use with this shortcode:
* Authors:
[latest author=”username or multiple usernames separated by comma”]
* Category:
[latest category=”category name or names separated by comma”]
* Tag:
[latest tag=”tag name or names separated by comma”]
* Post Type:
[latest post_type=”post type name”]
* Show Posts:
[latest show=”number of posts to show”]
* Show Excerpt:
[latest excerpt=”true (default is false)”]
* Show Thumbnail:
[latest thumbnail=”true (default is false)”]
To call it from within a theme template, you have to wrap it in this PHP function:
