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Usage The arguments you can use are:

• 'name' - To display posts from a category using the category's name. Ex: [catlist name=mycategory]

• 'id' - To display posts from a category using the category's id. Ex: [catlist id=24]. If you use both arguments (wrong!), List Category Posts will show the posts from the category in 'name'.

• 'orderby' - To customize the order. Valid values are:

  • 'author' - Sort by the numeric author IDs.
  • 'category' - Sort by the numeric category IDs.
  • 'content' - Sort by content.
  • 'date' - Sort by creation date.
  • 'ID' - Sort by numeric post ID.
  • 'menu_order' - Sort by the menu order. Only useful with pages.
  • 'mime_type' - Sort by MIME type. Only useful with attachments.
  • 'modified' - Sort by last modified date.
  • 'name' - Sort by stub.
  • 'parent' - Sort by parent ID.
  • 'password' - Sort by password.
  • 'rand' - Randomly sort results.
  • 'status' - Sort by status.
  • 'title' - Sort by title.
  • 'type' - Sort by type. Ex: [catlist name=mycategory orderby=date]
  • 'order' - How to sort 'orderby'. Valid values are:
  • 'ASC' - Ascending (lowest to highest).
  • 'DESC' - Descending (highest to lowest). Ex: [catlist name=mycategory orderby=title order=asc]

• 'numberposts' - Number of posts to return. Set to 0 to use the max number of posts per page. Set to -1 to remove the limit. Default: 5. Ex: [catlist name=mycategory numberposts=10]

• 'date' - Display the date of the post next to the title. Default is 'no', use date=yes to activate it.

• 'author' - Display the author of the post next to the title. Default is 'no', use author=yes to activate it.

You can customize the way List Category Posts shows the posts in your CSS by editing "lcp_catlist".

Since version 0.2, List Category Posts includes a sidebar widget. It works pretty much the same as the plugin itself.

Your comments and feedback are welcome at: http://picandocodigo.net/programacion/wordpress/list-category-posts-wordpress-plugin-english/

List category posts was written initially with Geany - http://geany.uvena.de/. Now it's being written with GNU Emacs - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Changelog

0.4.1

• Fixed some code to enable PHP 4 compatibility. Shouldn't hosting services update to PHP 5?

0.4

• Added 'date' parameter. Now you can show the post's date when listed.

• Added 'author' parameter. You can also show the post's author.

• Sidebar Widget now allows you to add a title in h2 tags.

• Changed some variable names, to keep better compatibility with other plugins/wordpress variables.

• Tested with Wordpress 2.7.

0.3

• Broke backwards compatibility. Users of version 0.1 should update their pages and posts for the new shortcode formatting.

• Option to pass arguments to the plugin, in order to use name of category instead of ID, orderby, order and number of posts are passed through parameters.

0.2

• Added experimental sidebar widget (use at your own risk, not ready for prime-time yet since it hasn't been tested :P )

0.1.1

• Fixed major bug, which gave 404 error when trying to use "Options" page.

0.1

• Option page to limit number of posts.

• Working using [category=ID] for posts and pages, with several categories support.