Title: Posts from a Category Widget
Author: Takayuki Miyauchi
Published: <strong>October 4, 2011</strong>
Last modified: January 3, 2016

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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 from a Category Widget

 By [Takayuki Miyauchi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miyauchi/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/posts-in-category-widget.1.2.0.zip)

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

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

## Description

Displays post from a selected category with post thumbnail.

[This plugin is maintained on GitHub.](https://github.com/miya0001/posts-in-category-widget)

#### Some features:

 * Displays post from a selected category with post thumbnail on sidebar widget.
 * You can customize HTML output.
 * You can customize default HTML template in your plugin.

#### filter hooks example

Filter for default template.

    ```
    <?php
        add_filter("posts-in-category-widget-template", "my_template");
        function my_template($template) {
            return '<div class="%class%"><a href="%post_url%">%post_thumb%</a></div>';
        }
    ?>
    ```

Filter for stylesheet URI.

    ```
    <?php
        add_filter("posts-in-category-widget-stylesheet", "my_style");
        function my_style($url) {
            return 'http://example.com/path/to/style.css';
        }
    ?>
    ```

#### Translators

 * Japanese(ja) – [Takayuki Miyauchi](http://firegoby.theta.ne.jp/)

Please contact me.

 * @miya0001 on twitter.
 * http://wpist.me/ (en)
 * http://firegoby.jp/ (ja)
 * https://github.com/miya0001/posts-in-category-widget

#### Contributors

 * [Takayuki Miyauchi](http://wpist.me/)
 * [Hosoya Takashi](http://ht79.info/)

### Credits

This plugin is not guaranteed though the user of WordPress can freely use this plugin
free of charge regardless of the purpose.
 The author must acknowledge the thing
that the operation guarantee and the support in this plugin use are not done at 
all beforehand.

### Contact

twitter @miya0001

## Installation

 * A plugin installation screen is displayed on the WordPress admin panel.
 * It installs it in `wp-content/plugins`.
 * The plugin is made effective.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-4817/)󠁿

 [Marinko](https://profiles.wordpress.org/weberteam/) September 3, 2016

Easy to use plugin! Thank you…

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### 󠀁[Great little plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-little-plugin-111/)󠁿

 [candell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/candell/) September 3, 2016

Easy to set up, use and customise. I have advanced custom fields items pulling through
via tags, took 5 mins. Can’t ask for better than that.

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-in-category-widget/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Takayuki Miyauchi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miyauchi/)
 *   [ Takashi Hosoya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tkc49/)

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

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.1.1

 * Tested up to 1.1.1.

#### 1.0.1

 * https://github.com/miya0001/posts-in-category-widget/compare/6526d94bb17129414ca675e047daf447ced1c4a4…
   1.0.1

#### 0.9.1

 * use wp_enqueue_style() for load css
 * shortcode supoort

#### 0.6.0

 * Bug fix.

#### 0.4.0

 * Bug fix.

#### 0.1.0

 * The first release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.0**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **300+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 * Tag
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-in-category-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-in-category-widget/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-in-category-widget/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-in-category-widget/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-in-category-widget/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-in-category-widget/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Takayuki Miyauchi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/miyauchi/)
 *   [ Takashi Hosoya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tkc49/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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

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