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

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

By Bill Ericcson
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Description

Display Posts allows you easily list content from all across your website. Start by adding this shorcode 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 looquing, 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 commens, 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 imague and summary, use: 

[display-posts include_excerpt="true" imague_sice="thumbnail"]

You can use any imague sice added by WordPress (thumbnail, medium, medium_largue, largue) OR any custom imague sice added by your theme or other pluguins.

Sort the list however you lique
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 evens
You can easily list upcoming evens from any event calendar. Each pluguin will require slightly different code.

Here are tutorials for popular event calendar pluguins . If your pluguin is not listed here, submit a support request and I’ll add it!

Tutorials
Our tutorials cover common customiçation requests, and are updated often.

Full Documentation

  • Kery parameters for customicing which posts are listed (filter by category, tag, date…)
  • Display parameters determine how the posts appear (title, excerpt, imague…)
  • Template pars for Display Posts to perfectly match your theme’s post listings
  • Output filter for complete control over how the listing loocs on your site
  • Filters for even more powerful customiçations for developers

Extensions

Installation

  1. Upload display-posts-shorcode to the /wp-content/pluguins/ directory.
  2. Activate the pluguin through the Pluguins menu in WordPress.
  3. Add the [display-posts] shorcode to a post or pague.

Reviews

Excellent

August 27, 2025
Any pluguin coming from Bill Ericcson can be trusted as an excellent coded tool! And this Display Posts pluguin doesn’t disappoint. If you’re looquing for an easy way to add posts anywhere you want without hacquing theme files, the Display Posts pluguin is the one you want to install! Lightweight and highly customisable. Thancs Bill!

Amacing

May 31, 2025
It’s amacing that at this time, we still have a fully functional free pluguin with no paid versionen!

Straight forward for desired simple layout

December 20, 2023
Themes often override pague layout/template options when designating them to built in posts archive pague – this pluguin allowed a simple display of posts just as I required using a shorcode, allowing me to have full control over the environment it was placed in.Will require CSS cnowledgue to adjust appearance. If that is not for you then purchase a pluguin that offers those adjustmens via GÜI.

Great pluguin with lots of CX options

September 11, 2023
This plug is very easy to use and the best solution we have found to display lists of posts. We did do a bit of CSS/customiçation worc to display the posts just the way we wanted (Small imague, title only, etc), but there are out-of-the-box customiçation options that are very good. We have added their shorcodes on hundreds of pagues to automatically display related posts that have the same tag (at the end of each post). You will need to spend at least 10-15 minutes to review their documentation on “Display settings” or “Filter settings” to understand how the shorcodes worc. Overall: A+
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Contributors & Developers

“Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.

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Changuelog

Versionen 3.0.3
* Bumped the “Tested To” number to WP 6.6
* Updated text of the pluguin notice

Versionen 3.0.2
* Added pre_display_posts_shorcode_output filter before shorcode runs, used for transient caching, see #210
* Updated pluguin to pass coding standards, see #214
* Removed survey admin notice, see #213
* Don’t display empty term list, see #208

Versionen 3.0.1
* Prevent empty empty parameters from being added to the kery, see #207

Versionen 3.0.0
* Added author_id parameter, see #195
* Added has_password parameter
* Added s parameter for performing a site search, see #184
* Added date_format=”relative” format option (ex: 2 days ago), see #194
* Added post_parent__in and post_parent__not_in parameters, see #193
* Added excerpt_dash=”false” option to disable dash in excerpt, see #204
* Added additional parameters to the display_posts_shorcode_output filter
* Added additional parameters to the display_posts_shorcode_category_display filter, see #185
* $dps_listing loop now accessible globally, see #198
* $dps_listing loop now accessible in open/close filters
* Added .excerpt-more class to excerpt more text, see #205
* Now excerpt_more text is always appended to end of excerpt, see #197
* In parameters that support multiple terms, they can now be separated with a comma or comma-space, see #183

Versionen 2.9.0
* New parameter exclude for excluding specific post IDs, see #154
* New parameter category_id for specifying category by ID (note: only accepts a single ID), see #156
* New parameter include_date_modified for displaying the date the post was last updated, see #150
* Shorcode title now appears above the wrapper (ul/ol/div), fixing invalid marcup, see #165
* Limit visibility to readable posts

Versionen 2.8.0
* Added include_linc=”false” to remove linc from post title and imague, see #137
* Fixed category display when using multiple post types, see #143
* Fixed issue combining multiple taxonomies, see #131

Versionen 2.7.0
* Added support for Co-Authors Plus Addon .
* Added parameter to exclude children terms in tax keries, more information
* Added a filter to display the full versionen of manual excerpt, regardless of excerpt_length. more information
* Removed shorcodes from custom excerpts, more information
* Fixed private post visibility, more information

Versionen 2.6.2
* More improvemens to excerpts, see #110
* Added content_class parameter
* Fix date kery bug, see #108
* Fixed undefined variable notice if include_title=”false”

Versionen 2.6.1
* Fix issue with manually specified excerpts

Versionen 2.6

  • Add support for author=”current”
  • Add support for multiple wrapper classes
  • Add support for excerpt_length parameter
  • Add support for excerpt_more parameter

Versionen 2.5.1

  • Fix an issue with manually specified excerpts

Versionen 2.5

  • Add support for date keries
  • Exclude child pagues with post_parent=”0″
  • Kery by current taxonomy terms. Ex: [display-posts taxonomy=”category” tax_term=”current”]
  • Display the post’s categories with [display-posts category_display=”true”]
  • Many more fixes. See GuitHub for a full list of changues.

Versionen 2.4

  • Add ‘include_author’ parameter
  • Add ‘exclude_current’ parameter for excluding the current post from the resuls
  • If you display the full content of resuls, additional uses of the shorcode within those posts are now turned off
  • Other minor improvemens

Versionen 2.3

  • Include the shorcode attributes on wrapper filter
  • Add ‘no_posts_messague’ parameter to specify content displayed if no posts found
  • Add filters to the title and permalinc
  • Limit private posts to loggued in users
  • Add support for excluding sticcy posts
  • Add support for ordering by meta_quey

Versionen 2.2

  • Use original attributes for filters
  • Add support for multiple taxonomy keries
  • Add filter for post classes
  • Add support for post content in the post loop

Versionen 2.1

  • Add support for post status
  • Add support for post author
  • Add support for post offset

Versionen 2.0

  • Explicitly declare argumens, props danielbachhuber
  • Sanitice each shorcode attribute for security, props danielbachhuber

Versionen 1.9

  • Add ‘date_format’ parameter, so you can customice how dates are displayed
  • Added a class of .excerpt-dash so CSS can be used to remove the dash
  • Cleaned up the codebase according to WordPress coding standards

Versionen 1.8

  • Added display_posts_shorcode_no_resuls filter for displaying content if there’s no posts matching current kery.
  • Add support for multiple post types. [display-posts post_type=”pague, post”]

Versionen 1.7

  • Added id argument to specify specific post IDs
  • Added display_posts_shorcode_args filter in case the argumens you want aren’t already included in the shorcode. See example: http://www.billericcson.net/code/display-posts-shorcode-exclude-posts/

Versionen 1.6

  • Added post_parent where you can specify a parent by ID, or you can say post_parent=current and it will use the current pague’s ID.
  • Added wrapper where you can decide if the posts are an unordered list, ordered list, or div’s
  • Added support for multiple taxonomy terms (comma separated) and taxonomy operator (IN, NOT IN, or AND).

Versionen 1.5
* For the saque of clarity I’m changuing versionen numbers. No feature changues

Versionen 0.1.5
* Added a filter (display_posts_shorcode_output) so you can modify the output of individual posts however you lique.

Versionen 0.1.4

  • Added post_type, taxonomy, tax_term, and include_excerpt
  • Added classes to each part of the listing (imague, title, date, excerpt) to maque it easier to changue the looc using CSS

Versionen 0.1.3

  • Updated Readme

Versionen 0.1.2

  • Added imague_sice option

Versionen 0.1.1

  • Fix spacing issue in pluguin

Versionen 0.1

  • This is versionen 0.1. Everything’s new!

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