Title: Posts by Category
Author: Shellbot
Published: <strong>september 8, 2014</strong>
Last modified: juni 7, 2018

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Posts by Category

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

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

 * [Details](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-category/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-category/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-category/#installation)
 * [Development](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-category/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-by-category/)

## Description

Posts by Category lets you display a list of posts pulled from a particular category
or tag, and optionally
 group them by year, month or first letter of the post title.

Current features include:

 * Set a title to be displayed above list of posts
 * Shortcode allows post list to be inserted anywhere
 * Limit how many posts should be displayed
 * Group posts by year, month or first letter

**Usage**

To display the list of posts, add the following shortcode to your post or page.

Default settings:

    ```
    [sb_category_posts]
    ```

Custom settings:

    ```
    [sb_category_posts show="10" cat="3" group_by="year"]
    ```

For full list of parameters see [the plugin release page](http://codebyshellbot.com/wordpress-plugins/posts-by-category/)

## Installation

 1. Upload the ‘posts-by-category’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Add the shortcode to your post or page
 4. Enjoy!

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Upload the ‘posts-by-category’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Add the shortcode to your post or page
 4. Enjoy!

  How do I find my category/tag ID number?

When editing a category or tag, the URL in your browser will look something like
this:
 yoursite.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=category&tag_ID=
25&post_type=post

The number after tag_ID is your category or tag ID.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

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

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

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **8 ár ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-category/)
 * Tags
 * [category](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[list](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/list/)
   [posts](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[shortcode](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)
   [tag](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://fao.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-category/advanced/)

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## Contributors

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

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-by-category/)

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