Shortcodes allowing you to display posts inside other posts/pages
As of April 2026, VI: Include Post By is a WordPress post plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
VI: Include Post By – provides your pages and posts with shortcodes allowing you to display other pages and posts inside them either by their ID or by post category. Options to display title,meta,content,thumbnail,excerpt,footer.
More display options.
Taxonomy and post type agnostic
setable default thumbnail
grab the actual small thumbnail image for srcset
Shortcode for including a single post by its ID
[include-post-by-id
id="123"
link="true"
moretext="Continue Reading"
card="false"
display="title,meta,thumbnail,content,excerpt,more,footer,all"
display_header="title,meta,thumbnail,content,excerpt,more,footer,all"
display_body="title,meta,thumbnail,content,excerpt,more,footer,all"
display_footer="title,meta,thumbnail,content,excerpt,more,footer,all"…| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
0.4.200706
* update: aspect-ratio to use jQuery for simpler WP usage
0.4.200611
* added: support for a choice in thumbnail size
0.4.200520
* Update: display and class
* added: card = true for auto bootstrap class names
* added: display_header, display_body, display_footer. each internal element can be targeted to a header, body, and footer
* added: class for the header,body,footer, and thumbnail
* changed: thum…
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