Latest Posts Shortcode

Suppose you have a Page in WordPress with some company information, and you wanted to display some recent blog posts within it. Or maybe you have a FAQ section and you wanted to display some excerpts of other important items. The ‘Latest’ shortcode was created to remedy this problem and bring more dynamic content into your pages with minimal effort.

Example Using Columns

The example below shows how to use the latest shortcode to display your content within a set number of columns. If you’d like to use some of your own custom markup inside the shortcode, but still want to use columns, see the advanced example further below.

The Code

[latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" length="50" morelink="Read More »" width="75" height="75" num="6" cols="2" cat="6"]

The Result

Advanced Example

Below is a more advanced example combined with the adaptive fractional columns shortcode, using custom markup within the shortcode.

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Source of Above Output

[one_third]
<h5>Latest Posts from Category A</h5>
[latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" length="50" morelink="Read More »" width="75" height="75" num="1" cat="11"][/one_third]
[one_third]
<h5>Latest Posts from Category B</h5>
[latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" length="50" morelink="Read More »" width="75" height="75" num="1" cat="11" offset="1"][/one_third]
[one_third_last]
<h5>Latest Posts from Category C</h5>
[latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" length="50" morelink="Read More »" width="75" height="75" num="1" cat="11" offset="2"][/one_third_last]
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[one_third]
<h5>Latest Posts from Category A</h5>
[latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" length="50" morelink="Read More »" width="75" height="75" num="1" cat="6" offset="3"][/one_third]
[one_third]
<h5>Latest Posts from Category B</h5>
[latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" length="50" morelink="Read More »" width="75" height="75" num="1" cat="6" offset="4"][/one_third]
[one_third_last]
<h5>Latest Posts from Category C</h5>
[latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" length="50" morelink="Read More" width="75" height="75" num="1" cat="8" offset="6"][/one_third_last]

Below is a list of the accepted parameters for the “Latest” shortcode and some examples to help you get started.

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
//
// Latest Posts
// Shortcode Parameters:
//
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// excerpt="true|false"         ------	display the excerpt or 'more' tag break
// length="50"                  ------	excerpt character length
// thumbs="true|false"          ------	display featured thumbnail
// width="50"                   ------	featured thumbnail width
// cols="2"                     ------	split the results into X number of columns (4 max)
// height="50"                  ------	featured thumbnail height
// num="6"                      ------	number of entries to display
// cat="1,-2"                   ------	categories to include or exclude (-)
// morelink="Read More..."      ------	more link text
// offset="0"                   ------	offset/skip X number of posts
// type="page|post"             ------	query type
// parent="1" (page only)       ------	page parent
// orderby="date|customfield"   ------	custom ordering
// order="ASC|DESC"             ------	sort order
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

// Example: [latest excerpt="true" thumbs="true" width="50" height="50" num="5" cat="8,10,11"]

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/