Posts per Cat

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

• 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 220x123); 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% (%comments_num% comments) %date% @ %time% %author_displayname% %thumbnail% %excerpt% [read more] [/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%

1.5.0 (2025-05-12)

• Fix vulnerabilities reported by muhammad yudha via WordFence Responsible Disclosure
• Update compatibility to WordPress 6.8
• Make columns responsive and use modern flexbox instead of the legacy floats
• Sassify styles
• Partial code cleanup
• Reactivate plugin development

1.4.2 (2015-11-28)

• Change plugin status to Unmaintained
• Intorduce acquisition of plugin for interested third parties
• Update donation link

1.4.1.2 (2015-04-16)

• Fix missing mb_strlen and mb_substr that cause Fatal error on servers w/ PHP installed w/o --enable-mbstring option

1.4.1.1 (2015-03-30)

• Fix warnings if no default settings defined

1.4.1 (2014-09-16)

• Fix settings page initialization issue
• Fix output when do_action() is used for integration
• Add to Widget settings support for post ordering and sorting (already supported by shortcode since 1.3.0 - undocumented until now)

1.4.0 (2014-09-13)

• Fix usage of predefined include/exclude categories in global settings if no include/exclude categories provided in widget or shortcode
• Fix non-working minimal box height set in widget or shortcode
• Add support for cusotm template output with post element macros
• Add support for non-square thumbnails with WIDTH, WIDTHxHEIGHT or image size name as value
• Change - Link to category can be applied to Category title and to "More" link for category in same time
• Change - Remove embedded Redux from plugin and use Redux Framework Plugin for global PPX settings page
• Change - pack PPC to class

1.3.0 (2014-06-01)

• A lot of fixes made during framework change
• Improved basic block layouts
• Add 5th column for boxes
• Convert settings page to Redux Framework
• Update compatibility to 3.9.1

1.2.1 (2014-01-27)

• Fix widget functionality
• Update compatibility to 3.8.1

1.2.0 (2013-11-24)

• Add shortcode options to override default settings
• Add widget with settings
• Code optimization

1.1.0 (2012-04-05)

• Adds option to disable link on category title
• Adds shortcode [ppc]
• Adds class to headline title and number of comments

1.0.0 (2012-01-16)

• Adds option to toggle comments number with link
• Adds option to use post content in stead of post excerpt
• Adds option for custom category ordering (as listed in Include category)
• Adds option to display PPC in one, two, three or four columns
• Adds available category list in Options page
• All coments in code translated to English
• Follow WP coding standards
• Renamed from Posts-per-Cat to Posts per Cat

0.0.14 (2011-04-09)

• Fixed debug errors
• Fixed (I hope I do) image URI's in CSS
• Adapted for WordPress 3.1
• Added French localisation thanks to Pepita Pop (2010-06-23)

0.0.13 (2010-05-27)

• Fixed path to CSS on nonroot WP installations

0.0.12 (2010-05-18)

• Fixed full width problem in IE6

0.0.11 (2010-04-24)

• Added dirty hack for seervers w/o mb_strlen()
• Added option to filter categories on category archive
• Added option to display thumbnails with excerpts
• Added option to display standalone link to category archive
• Better terminology

0.0.10 (2010-01-07)

• Added option to display two or only one column per row (full width)

0.0.9 (2009-10-09)

• Fixed XHTML validation error for div class
• Added full post title as link title

0.0.8 (2009-09-26)

• Replaced category and post URI with permalink
• Added option to display excerpt for first article only, for all articles or not display at all
• Added option to shorten excerpts to specified length (in characters)
• Added option to shorten post title to specified length (in characters)
• Added options for custom categories to include/exclude
• Moved Settings links in plugin actions
• Fixed and improved ppc.css and ppc-list.css StyleSheets

0.0.7 (2009-03-04)

• Posts per Cat added to WordPress plugin repository
• Fixed broken category URI on non-index pages
• Added ppc action hook

0.0.6 (2009-03-03)

• Fixed SCC URI on non-index pages

0.0.5 (2009-02-20)

• Added plugin option to disable usage of CSS StyleSheet for list styles

0.0.4 (2009-02-20)

• Fixed CSS positioning problem

0.0.3 (2009-02-16)

• Published first public release
• Added Settings page
• Gettexturized (enabled localisation)

0.0.2 (2009-02-10)

• Code packed from functions.php to plugin

0.0.1 (2009-02-02)

• Project initialized