Posts per Cat
by Aleksandar Urošević on WordPress.org

Posts per Cat general settings
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.
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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 prefixposts=5
– Number of headlines per category blockporderby=date
– Order posts by date, modified, title, name, ID, authorporder=DESC
– Order sorting DESC or ASCtitlelen=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 lengththumb=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%
[read more]
[/ppc]
%thumbnail%
%excerpt%
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%
Active installations300+
Weekly downloads
19-24.00%
Version1.5.0
Last updated5/12/2025
WordPress version5.0
Tested up to6.8.1
PHP version7.4
Tags
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