This plugin adds a graphical shortcode creator for the List Category Posts plugin by Fernando Briano. The creator is available in WordPress editor by clicking the ‘LCP’ button of the editor’s toolbar.
This means you can use the shortcode creator in:
- Post Editing Screen
- Text Widgets
- Gutenberg’s ‘Classic’ block
- and wherever the WYSIWYG editor is used in plugins and themes
Make sure you have read the LCP plugin’s detailed documentation as well as its readme to understand its features and potential. This is important because even though the GUI provided here tries to make things easily understandable on the front-end, it does not explain all features of the base plugin in detail.
How to use the plugin
Clicking the ‘LCP’ button opens a modal window with a form.
The shortcode creator has two sections, divided in two tabs:
- Selection options
- Display options
‘Selection options’ allow you to choose which posts to include while ‘Display options’ manage what information about selected posts is displayed and what HTML & CSS customizations are applied.
Once you are happy with your selected options, just click the ‘Insert into editor’ button located at the bottom of the modal window. It will automatically insert a properly formated List Category Posts shortcode into WordPress editor. You can change the position at which the shortcode is inserted by moving the cursor in the editor.
List Category Posts parameters reference
Below is a list of shortcode creator’s sections together with corresponding shortcode parameters. This is intended to help you navigate List Category Post’s documentation.
Selection options
- Categories:
id,categorypage,child_categories - Tags:
tags,exclude_tags,current_tags - Custom taxonomies:
taxonomy,terms,taxonomies_and,taxonomies_or - Post type & status:
post_type,post_status - Custom fields:
customfield_name,customfield_value - Exclude posts:
exclude_posts - Author:
author_posts - Date:
monthnum,year,after,before - Search:
search - Post title firts character:
starting_with - Offset:
offset - Parent post:
post_parent
Display options
- Pagination, Number of posts & Order:
pagination,numberposts,order,orderby - List-specific options:
conditional_title,catlink,catname,category_description,morelink,class - Post-specific options:
author,comments,content,customfield_display,customfield_display_separately,customfield_display_glue,customfield_display_name,customfield_display_name_glue,date,date_modified,excerpt,excerpt_overwrite,excerpt_strip,excerpt_size,display_id,post_suffix,posts_morelink,tags_as_class,title_limit,link_titles,no_post_titles,thumbnail,force_thumbnail,thumbnail_size - Template:
template
Development
GUI for List Category Posts is open source software. You can find the
development version of the plugin on Github.
All suggestions and contributions are welcome
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.