Shortcode to display posts as a bulleted list. You can also use parameters order and orderby to sort the list.
As of April 2026, Show Post Shortcode is a WordPress list plugin with 100 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 8.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: List category posts.
This simple shortcode plugin allows you to list posts as a bulleted list linking to the full article. You can limit
the list to posts from a specific category and you can select the number of posts to show. The order and
orderby options lets you sort the list too.
Usage is simple. Create a page or post and use the code [showposts category="2" num="4"] – this will show
all 4 posts from category 2. Another example [showposts category="1" num="-1" orderby="date" order="DESC"]
shows all the posts from category 1 ordered by the date (newest post first).
By default, only 5 posts are shown (unless you use the num option) and sorting in by date (oldest to newest).
You can see two examples of the code working at the following links:
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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