Posts per Cat
Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.
5(8 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 10 months agoAs of April 2026, Posts per Cat is a WordPress posts plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 53K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
5/58 reviews
300active installs
53K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Posts per Cat is a simple plugin that grab all or only selected categories from blog database, and then list recent N posts from each category, organised in 1-5 columns.
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Features
- choose how many boxes per row will be displayed (one, two, three, four or five)
- define number of post titles to display per category
- define category ID’s to exclude
- define category ID’s to include
- toggle displaying of child categories
- ordering boxes by category ID, title or custom (manually entered category ID’s as include list)
- toggle displaying sticky posts
- toggle usage of custom list CSS
- SEO optimized permalink URI’s
- integrate to template file, use shortcode [ppc] with options or widget
- ready for localisation
- template s…
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Ratings & Reviews
58 reviews
5 ★
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.5.0 (2025-05-12)
- Fix vulnerabilities reported by muhammad yudha via WordFence Responsible Disclosure
- Update compatibility to WordPress 6.8
- Make columns responsive and use modern
flexboxinstead of the legacyfloats - Sassify styles
- Partial code cleanup
…and 1 more changes
Contributors
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