How to select which posts to show

Selecting a category

The plugin can figure out the category from which you want to list posts in several ways. You should use only one of these methods since these are all mutually exclusive, weird results are expected when using more than one:

• Using the category id.
  • id - To display posts from a category using the category's id. Ex: [catlist id=24].
• The category name or slug.
  • name - To display posts from a category using the category's name or slug. Ex: [catlist name=mycategory]
• Detecting the current post's category. You can use the categorypage parameter to make it detect the category id of the current post, and list posts from that category.
  • categorypage - Set it to "yes" if you want to list the posts from the current post's category. [catlist categorypage="yes"]

When using List Category Posts whithout a category id, name or slug, it will post the latest posts from every category.

Using more than one category

• Posts from several categories with an AND relationship, posts that belong to all of the listed categories (note this does not show posts from any children of these categories): [catlist id=17+25+2] - [catlist name=sega+nintendo].
• Posts from several categories with an OR relationship, posts that belong to any of the listed categories: [catlist id=17,24,32] - [catlist name=sega,nintendo].
• Exclude a category with the minus sign (-): [catlist id=11,-32,16], [catlist id=1+2-3]. Important: When using the and relationship, you should write the categories you want to include first, and then the ones you want to exclude. So [catlist id=1+2-3] will work, but [catlist id=1+2-3+4] won't.

Other ways of selecting what posts to show

• child_categories - Exclude/include posts from the child categories. By default they are included. If you have a "Parent Category" and you use: [catlist name="Parent Category"], you'll see posts from it's child categories as if they were posts from the same category. You can use this parameter to exclude these posts: [catlist name="Parent Category" child_categories=false].

• author_posts - Get posts by author. Use 'user_nicename' (NOT name). Example: [catlist author_posts="fernando"]

• tags - Tag support, display posts from a certain tag. You can use an "OR" relationship [catlist tags="nintendo,sega"] or "AND" relationship (posts that belong to all of the listed tags): [catlist tags="nintendo+sega"].

  • The plugin does support multi-word tags like "textual analysis" but you must use a hyphenated tag in the shortcode: [catlist tags="textual-analysis"].

• taxonomy - You can select posts using custom taxonomies. You need to set the taxonomy and the terms: [catlist taxonomy='person' terms='bob'].

• currenttags - Display posts from the current post's tags (won't work on pages since they have no tags). Pass it the 'yes' string for it to work: [catlist currenttags="yes"]

• exclude_tags - Exclude posts from one or more tags: [catlist tags="videogames" exclude_tags="sega,sony"]

• starting_with - Get posts whose title starts with a certain letter. Example: [catlist starting_with="l"] will list all posts whose title starts with L. You can use several letters: [catlist starting_with="m,o,t"].

• monthnum and year - List posts from a certain year or month. You can use these together or independently. Example: [catlist year=2015] will list posts from the year 2015. [catlist monthnum=8] will list posts published in August of every year. [catlist year=2012 monthnum=12] will list posts from December 2012.

• date ranges - You can also use date ranges for listing posts. For example "list every post after March 14th, 2005". The parameters are: after, after_year, after_month, after_day, before, before_year, before_month, before_day. These parameters are used to specify data_query arguments (see: the codex). Since you can use strtotime()-compatible strings, you can build dynamic lists such as "posts from the last 30 days" with [catlist after='-30 days']. More examples:

  If you want to list all the posts before a given date, say Jun 17th, 2007 you can use these two options:
  [catlist before_year=2007 before_month=06 before_day=17]
  Or you can use the before parameter with a strtotime()-compatible string:
  [catlist before='2007/06/17']

  The same works for posts after a given date, you can use:
  [catlist after_year=2007 after_month=06 after_day=17]
  Or just after with a strtotime()-compatible string:
  [catlist after='2007/06/17']

  after takes priority over after_year, after_month, and after_day.
  before takes priority over before_year, before_month, and before_day.

• search - List posts that match a search term. [catlist search="The Cake is a lie"]

• excludeposts - IDs of posts to exclude from the list. Use 'this' to exclude the current post. Ex: [catlist excludeposts=this,12,52,37]

• offset - You can displace or pass over one or more initial posts which would normally be collected by your query through the use of the offset parameter.

• post_type - The type of post to show. Available options are: post - Default, page, attachment, any - all post types. You can use several types, example: [catlist post_type="page,post" numberposts=-1]

• post_status - use post status, default value is 'publish'. Valid values:

  • publish - a published post or page.
  • pending - post is pending review.
  • draft - a post in draft status.
  • auto-draft - a newly created post, with no content.
  • future - a post to publish in the future.
  • private - not visible to users who are not logged in.
  • inherit - a revision. see get_children.
  • trash - post is in trashbin (available with Version 2.9).
  • any - retrieves any status except those from post types with 'exclude_from_search' set to true. You can use several post statuses. Example: [catlist post_status="future, publish" excludeposts=this]

• show_protected - Show posts protected by password. By default they are not displayed. Use: [catlist show_protected=yes]

• post_parent - Show only the children of the post with this ID. Default: None.

• custom fields - To use custom fields, you must specify two values: customfield_name and customfield_value. customfield_name defines the name of the field, and you should choose the values for which you want posts to display. Using this only show posts that contain a custom field with this name and value. Both parameters must be defined, or neither will work. Eg: [catlist customfield_name="color" customfield_value="green"] will display posts with the value green set on the custom field color. This parameter can be used together with customfield_orderby, see "More parameters you can use" for more information.