Title: List Posts by Categories
Author: mapelo
Published: <strong>July 3, 2011</strong>
Last modified: July 3, 2011

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# List Posts by Categories

 By [mapelo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mapelo/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/list-posts-by-categories.0.1.1.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/list-posts-by-categories/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/list-posts-by-categories/#developers)

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## Description

Add a list of your latest blog entries on any page.
 With simple shortcode you can
place a list of your latest news (or/and other blog categories) on any page or post.

### Documentation

[postsbycategories array1cat=”category1,category2″ array2cat=”category3″ sortby=”
title|date” order=”ASC|DESC” posts_per_page=”-1|X”]
 Use the following shortcode
anywhere on your page or post following the examples below:

[postsbycategories array1cat=”category1″ array2cat=”category3″ sortby=”date” order
=”DESC” posts_per_page=”-1″]
 Show a list of post/pages into category ‘category1’
AND ‘category3’, sort by published date, descendent, and without limit of posts/
pages per page.

[postsbycategories array1cat=”category1,category2″ sortby=”title” order=”ASC” posts_per_page
=”8″]
 Show a list of post/pages into category ‘category1’ OR ‘category2’, sort 
by title, ascendent, and limit to 8 posts/pages per page.

[postsbycategories array1cat=”category1,category2″ array2cat=”category3″]
 Show 
a list of post/pages into category (‘category1’ OR ‘category2’) AND category3, and
by default sort published by date, descendent, and no limit posts/pages per page.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Downlaod and unzip the last list-posts-by-categories plugin
 2. Upload the list-posts-by-categories directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. Place shortcode on your page, eg. [postsbycategories array1cat=”category1″ array2cat
    =”category3″ sortby=”date” order=”DESC” posts_per_page=”-1″]

## FAQ

  The shortcode does not return anything

This is most likely because the category name you used in your shortcode is not 
present or misspelled.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“List Posts by Categories” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mapelo ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mapelo/)

[Translate “List Posts by Categories” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/list-posts-by-categories)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/list-posts-by-categories/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/list-posts-by-categories/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/list-posts-by-categories/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/list-posts-by-categories/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

0.1.1 [July 3, 2011]
 – Some corrections in readme.txt by mapelo

0.1 [July 3, 2011]
 – First released by mapelo

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.2.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/list-posts-by-categories/)
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[posts](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/list-posts-by-categories/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ mapelo ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mapelo/)

## Support

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