Category Posts Widget

About Category Posts Widget

The Category Posts Widget is a lightweight widget that displays the most recent posts from a specific category. There is also a premium version available at tiptoppress.com that offers additional features such as auto-sizing grid layout, custom field support, and shortcode support in the template. Documentation and support are also provided.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Category Posts Widget?

Category Posts Widget is a WordPress plugin that adds a widget to display the most recent posts from a specific category.

Who is the author of Category Posts Widget?

The plugin is authored by ZephyrWest.

Does Category Posts Widget have a premium version?

Yes, there is a premium version available at tiptoppress.com, designed for larger WordPress sites.

What are some features of the free Category Posts Widget?

The free version includes a template to arrange post details, font-icon support, and a 'Load more' button/Ajax API.

What are some features of the premium version?

The premium version offers features like auto-sizing grid layout, custom field support in the template, and an image-slider or news-ticker.

Changelog

4.9.18 – Oct 12th 2024

Fixed Sanitize Number fields

4.9.17 – Juli 08th 2024

Fixed Sanitize text field

4.9.16 – March 26th 2024

Fixed Deletion failed

4.9.15 – May 2 2023

Fixed Image size

4.9.14 – May 1 2023

Fixed Array string keys
Fixed Date since published

4.9.13 – July 22 2021

Fixed Line number with WordPress 5.8

4.9.12 – July 20 2021

Deprecated jQuery warnings

4.9.11 – April 15th 2021

Wiget title heading level buttons
Add sticky posts at start

4.9.10 – December 15th 2020

Fixed Missing load more button

4.9.9 – December 9th 2020

Load more placeholders

4.9.8 – November 30th 2020

Date since published for n-days

4.9.7 – November 21th 2020

Item title in lines (line-clamp)
Fixed Column layout
Fixed Image Html rendering

4.9.6 – November 16th 2020

Item title heading level buttons
Excerpt-more link placeholder
Native WordPress filter CSS classes
Rework thumb handling

4.9.5 – May 12th 2020

Fixed Widget_Title filter missing parameters

4.9.4 – March 2th 2020

Fixed Delete global click event

4.9.3 – March 18th 2020

Fixed Mouse hover icon and post format indication

4.9.2 – Mai 23th 2019

Fixed Starts with post
Fixed Replace the figure-element

4.9.1 – Mai 17th 2019

‘Load more’ button / Ajax API
Data range filter
Text, if there is no post
Excerpt length in lines (line-clamp)
Image crop with CSS (object-fit)
Fluid images (max-width in %).
One thumb dimension can be left empty
Admin UI: Button to easy add post details placeholder
Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes

4.8.5 – April 02nd 2018

Fixed Tabs not working

4.8.4 – April 02nd 2018

Fixed Make widget SiteOrigin Page Builder Compatible

4.8.3 – March 03th 2018

Fixed Updated widget with zero for the thumb dimensions caused a JavaScript error

4.8.2 – January 30th 2018

Fixed Adding the widget with the customizer only the title is shown
Fixed Recognize “Empty lines” > Next line is a paragraph in the Template in widget areas

4.8.1 – January 25th 2018

Fixed Recognize “Empty lines” > Next line is a paragraph in the Template

4.8 – January 22th 2018

SVG font-icon support for post formats
Template to arrange the post details
Premade Templates
Date format: Time since plublished
Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private
Hover effect: SVG font-icon

4.7.4 – October 21th 2017

Bugfix for filter by post status (note private)

4.7.3 – October 10th 2017

Add option to filter by post status
Fixed footer section do not change when switching to and from “all posts”

4.7.2 – February 25th 2017

Add option to disable only the font styles
Fixed if option ‘Everything is a link’ no closing anchor tag
Fixed if option ‘Everyting is a link’ wrong layout
Fixed when a manual excerpt is provided, use it instead of generating an automatic one
Fixed if option ‘Disable the built-in CSS’ the thumbnail client-side cropping isn’t disabled
Fixed if option ‘Disable the built-in CSS’ title class is not rendered
Fixed when having multi shortcodes, clicking on a checkbox label marks in any of them selects the one in the “first”
Fixed if option ‘CSS crop to requested size’ for multi shortcodes
Fixed for CSS animation

4.7.1 – December 20th 2016

Support multiple shortcodes in content
Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another)
Fluid images for Responsive Layouts
Set a thumbnail as default thumbnail
Add option to enable excerpt filters from Themes and plugins
Add option to disable social buttons, banner, … in the excerpt
Add dropdownbox entry for ‘all’ categories
Add option to disable subcategories
Add insert shortcode buttons to the editor toolbar
Use WP user profile for settings (‘auto close’ and if the shortcode button appears in the editor toolbar)
Simple API for external use
Support localization with translate.wordpress.org: Portuguese (Brazil) thank you Henrique Vianna and German by Daniel Floeter
Remove allow_html option (Instead we recommend to use the manual excerpt or we support this option furthermore in the Term Posts Excerpt Extension for the premium version)

4.6.2 – August 28th 2016

Fixed only five widget instances can be costumized with shortcodes.
For editing shortcode adds a customizer link to the admin-bar if page/post is in edit mode.

4.6.1 – June 5th 2016

Add shortcode [catposts] edit options only in the customizer
Keep panels open after save.
Option to hide social buttons on output.

4.1.9 – May 5th 2016

Fixed undefined constant.

4.1.8 – May 3th 2016

Add mouse hover effects: blur
Add option to choose allowed HTML in the excerpt
Add Jetpack ‘Sharing – Show buttons on posts’ support
Fixed division by zero bug (for small uploaded images)

4.1.7 – April 14th 2016

Fixed division by zero bug.

4.1.6 – April 13th 2016

Add option CSS cropping for thumbnails.
Add option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail.
Add option to change the excerpt more text.
Add option to allow links in the excerpt
Add filter ‘widget_title’ for the title
Add option to hide post titles.

4.1.5 – February 4th 2016

Support for multi sites.
Support for localization.
Area UI.
Meet new plugin author mark-k

4.1.4

Added option exclude current post.
Added option to hide posts which have no thumbnail.
Added option to make the widget date link to the category page.
Added option to link to the category page below posts list.
Added option show post author.
Added option to format the outputted date string.

4.1.3

Added option to hide widget, if category have currently no posts.

4.1.2

Fixed hide title bug.

4.1.1

Added option to put thumbnail on top.
Added option to show/hide the title.
Fixed no background bug.

4.1.0

Added PHP5 Constructor.
Added Option to allow/disallow widget CSS.
Now, compatible with WordPress 4.3.
Meet new plugin author kometschuh

4.0

Added CSS file for post styling.
Now compatible with latest versions of WordPress.

3.3

Fixed random sort bug.

3.2

Added option to change ordering of posts. Defaults to showing newest posts first.

3.1

Fixed a bug in the thumbnail size registration routine.

3.0

Added support for WP 2.9’s post thumbnail feature.
Removed support for Simple Post Thumbnails plugin.
Added option to show the post date.
Added option to set the excerpt length.
Added option to show the number of comments.

2.3

Really tried to fix bug where wp_query global was getting over written by manually instantiating a WP_Query object.

2.1

Fixed bug where wp_query global was getting over written.

2.0

Updated to use the WP 2.8 widget API.
Added support for Simple Post Thumbnails plugin.