Posts to Page

Description

This plugin adds a shortcode [posts-to-page] to WP allowing you to place your posts into a page.
Tested with WordPress 3.1.3 and above.

Usage

To use this plugin you can place the [posts-to-page] shortcode using an argument in to any page.

Default Usage

[posts-to-page cat_ID=1]

Parameters

‘cat_ID’ – post category ID you would like to display. The cat_ID equal to 1 is usually the “uncategorised” category.
‘show_title’ – true/false the default is true, will show or hide the title
‘link_title’ – true/false the default is false, will link the title
‘show_content’ – true/false the default is true, will show or hide the content
‘show_date’ – true/false the default is false, will show or hide the date
‘show_author’ – true/false the default is false, will show or hide the author
‘limit’ – This limits the results to a number
‘split_point’ – This forces an early split in the results

Download

You can find the plugin on the wordpress site, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-page/

Help

Default usage

59 thoughts on “Posts to Page”

Scott Austin on March 26, 2012 at 1:43 am said:

Simple question – how to I find the cat_id?

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- Bloafer on April 2, 2012 at 8:49 am said:
  
  http://studio.bloafer.com/2011/07/12/posts-to-page-help/
  
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Richard Brown on March 12, 2012 at 7:29 pm said:

Hi
Im using the plugin on this site:
http://walterbaileypar.co.uk/
It works really well unless you have several posts in which case it goes slightly wrong!
http://walterbaileypar.co.uk/pets/wild-birds/
Would it be possible to edit the plugin so it pulls the first images and the title only please? I would be happy to pay if it was possible.
Thanks
Rich

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- Bloafer on April 2, 2012 at 8:53 am said:
  
  We will be working on a new templating system in one of the upcoming releases
  
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Niek on February 25, 2012 at 1:07 am said:

I really like this plugin!
But it totally ignores my stylesheet, so it doesn’t look good anymore. Besides the title and the content I want the info and postmetadata of the template. (Info about the date the posts were added, author, comments etc.
How could I get that?

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- Bloafer on April 2, 2012 at 8:57 am said:
  
  The next release will give you the ability it use templates
  
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Reggie on February 21, 2012 at 9:38 am said:

Nice plugin, thanx.

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Stephanie on February 17, 2012 at 7:43 pm said:

How can I edit the date format? Right now it’s:

2012-02-16 15:36:48

I would like it to be

02/16/2012 2:36 pm

Thank you!
This is an amazing plug-in!!

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- Bloafer on April 2, 2012 at 8:58 am said:
  
  The plugin uses the format specified in your WP settings
  
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Brian Gilbank on February 17, 2012 at 4:49 am said:

This might be a dumb question, but can you set the id to pick up different categories? How do you find out what the ID is, of categories you have set up?

Thank you in advance.

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- Bloafer on April 2, 2012 at 8:59 am said:
  
  http://studio.bloafer.com/2011/07/12/posts-to-page-help/ has the information you require
  
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holli boyd-white on February 13, 2012 at 10:38 pm said:

I have both the title and then the title and full article showing up. I have used this plugin on other pages of the site without this happening. The code I have inserted is:

[posts-to-page cat_ID=9 link_title=true]

I have tried updating the page without the link to facebooks visable (thinking that might be the problem) but its not. Any help?

Page where used is:

http://goto.druutopia.com/movie-reviews/

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- Bloafer on April 2, 2012 at 9:04 am said:
  
  It looks like you have the title in the content of you posts
  
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Channa on January 30, 2012 at 7:42 am said:

Can this plugin be used to insert individual posts (via post_id) onto a page? or does it only allow post-to-page for categories?

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- Bloafer on January 31, 2012 at 10:55 am said:
  
  Categories only, perhaps in the future it will support individual posts
  
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jacek on January 25, 2012 at 4:03 pm said:

Is there a way to use pagination on page with posts?

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- Bloafer on January 27, 2012 at 10:51 am said:
  
  Currently not
  
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  - jacek on January 30, 2012 at 12:30 pm said:
    
    it would be very useful.
    
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Sarah on January 24, 2012 at 4:13 pm said:

Thank you so much for providing this! I’ve struggled with putting posts on my pages for a long time; this has greatly simplified my life.

If I could make a request, would it be possible to include an option in the shortcode to show/hide the time as well as the date? If you’re planning to release any new versions, of course.

Thank you again!

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- Bloafer on January 27, 2012 at 10:52 am said:
  
  We will work on this for the next release
  
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Denis on December 8, 2011 at 6:13 pm said:

[posts-to-page cat_ID=7 show_date=true] is not displaying the date of my posts within the page. I’m using the latest version of your plugin and the basic Twenty Eleven theme. My category is iD 7. So, what am I doing wrong?

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- Don B on January 8, 2012 at 8:12 pm said:
  
  @Denis.
  I think you can change a little piece of code and the date will display. It seems to be working for me.
  
  Change:
  $html .= ” . comment_date(get_option(‘date_format’), $post->ID) . ”;
  
  To:
  $html .= ” . mysql2date(get_option(‘date_format’), $post->post_date). ”;
  
  There might be a more elegant way to do this but this is absolutely my very first mod.
  
  Lovely plug-in. Thank you.
  
  Don Booth
  
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  - Don B on January 9, 2012 at 6:06 am said:
    
    $link = “ID) . “#$respond_id’ onclick=’return addComment.moveForm(\”$add_below-$post->ID\”, \”0\”, \”$respond_id\”, \”$post->ID\”)’>comment | “;
    $html .= $link;
    
    which will give you link for your users to comment.
    
    Plus, it was not difficult to add a div that surrounded each post so that each post could be styled.
    
    hmmmm…. starting to think WordPress is okay…..
    
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- Jeremy on January 21, 2012 at 7:52 am said:
  
  Yup I have the same problem. Any fix for this?
  
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  - Bloafer on January 21, 2012 at 9:31 am said:
    
    This should be addressed in the latest version
    
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matt on December 5, 2011 at 4:40 am said:

Cool Plugin! I’ve got 0.9 installed and I am still not seeing the date. I want it to display the Title with the date next to it. My code is “[posts-to-page cat_ID=9 show_content=false link_title=true show_date=true limit=5]“. The page is at http://www.kaleidoscope-kids.org/kaleido-3.5/kaleido4/newsandevents. Any thoughts? We are launching our redesign Weds! Joy!

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- Bloafer on December 9, 2011 at 8:22 am said:
  
  Should be updated in version 1.1
  
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Schalk on October 19, 2011 at 8:34 pm said:

Hi,

I came across another issue; I use Woo Themes, and when I want to add the short code for a button in a post, it wont display, though it does display in the singe post:

This is the short code: [button link="http://www.pechakucha-capetown.com/" style="download" color="red"]

Many thanx

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- Bloafer on November 10, 2011 at 9:12 pm said:
  
  This should be vixed in the latest version (0.8)
  
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AB on October 7, 2011 at 8:49 am said:

this plugin is exactly what I was looking for, simple to use & effective…

However does it only display text from the post?

I have posts with images attached to the post and then using Portfolio Slideshow plugin to display the images as a slideshow. When I view the post by itself, the slideshow is there but when I place the post on a page using ‘Posts to Page’ it displays the code for the slideshow not the slideshow itself…. is there anyway around this?

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The Stinger on October 6, 2011 at 6:21 am said:

Great plugin. Very neat and efficient.
Only have one problem with it though, the posts don’t look like they supposed to.
Images are centered and text starts at the end of the page and wraps around to a new line.

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Mike on October 5, 2011 at 5:07 pm said:

Any way to have video from the post show up or is it just the text?

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- Bloafer on November 15, 2011 at 8:28 am said:
  
  Should be fixed in the latest version
  
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Sheridan on September 27, 2011 at 6:18 pm said:

I have the plugin set to pull in a category to show those posts on a specific page and it’s working great but the title of the posts being pulled in need to link to the actual post. How do I make the titles link to their posts? Thanks

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- Sheridan on October 1, 2011 at 4:15 am said:
  
  you can view what I’m talking about here – http://www.chasingomaha.com/omaha-eight.html. The post names don’t link anywhere.
  
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- Bloafer on November 14, 2011 at 10:24 pm said:
  
  Available in the latest release
  
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Helene on September 23, 2011 at 3:30 pm said:

Hi,

Great plugin! I could display posts in pages immediately.
However, I just cannot get the date displayed: i tried both true and false but no way… I am using the 0.7 update of the plugin. And would it be possible to get the author too? I thought to just copy the lines for date and change date to author…but I am not a developer, thus thought better to ask

Finally the comments do not appear either, is there any easy way to get them?

I am using twenty eleven, and the website in under construction not accessible.

Thank you so much for your help an to have done this plugin!
Helene

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- Bloafer on November 14, 2011 at 10:40 pm said:
  
  Date option is now fixed in version 0.9, I have also added Author.
  
  I wouldn’t recommend adding comments, rather link to the page to show contents and comments.
  
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walzmyn on September 16, 2011 at 1:31 am said:

Using the –more– tag
OK, the split point argument is really nice. But having to stick a specific tag into each post is not the nicest set up. This is even more true if you’re using WordPress as a CMS and have multiple (non-technical) people making posts.
Making use of the –more– tag would be the ideal scenario, but trying to put the –more— tag into the short cut gets eaten by WordPress’s editor. (see my earlier post attempts here
So, how about we make a single special care for the split point, so that split_point=”more” in the short code gets set to the –more– tag?
I’ve edited the plugin for my site to do this. I’m going to attempt to paste the code in here. If it doesn’t work, I’m sure you can figure out what I’ve done.

if(isset($args["split_point"]))
{if($args["split_point]“]==”more”){$split_point = ‘<!–more–>’;}
else
{ $splitPoint = $args["split_point"]; }}

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walzmyn on September 4, 2011 at 1:13 am said:

I’m trying to use the split_point to split at the –more– tag. The plugin works just as expected if I use “splitpoint” and insert that into a post, but when I try to use the already existing –more– it is not working.
My short code (from the html editor not the WYSIWYG editor) is:
[posts-to-page cat_ID=7 limit=1 split_point="" show_title=true].
I even hacked the plugin to add $splitPoint to the html output and it returned just like is in the post. But the plugin did not cut off the post there and instead put the entire thing on my page.

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- walzmyn on September 4, 2011 at 11:02 am said:
  
  I just swung back by and realized that my short code did not copy/past properly. It should have read splitpoint=”“
  
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Andy on August 30, 2011 at 10:47 pm said:

Trying this out now – looks very promising, simple but effective. Couple of problems for me though – post titles are not clickable so visitors can view the full post and there is no “read more…” link option (I’d prefer that personally – can that be added?
Well done!
Andy

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Carlos Gonzalez on August 1, 2011 at 11:08 pm said:

Thank you for this plugin! I have it working on my page with titles. However, I can’t seem to separate my posts. It shows them all as one continuous post. I am using [posts-to-page cat_ID=6 show_title=true] -is there a way I can adjust so that it shows each post individually with it’s own’s title link? If you go to techcrunch.com for example, and click on their startups page, you would have all the posts in that category appear separately. http://techcrunch.com/startups/ That is what I am trying to achieve.

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- Bloafer on August 17, 2011 at 6:29 pm said:
  
  This has been updated in the latest version
  
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  - Daryl Gochnauer on November 10, 2011 at 5:08 pm said:
    
    You say the latest version has been updated to have each title automatically link to its corresponding post. I installed 0.7 (the latest version), and this is not the case for me. How can I go about linking up each of the titles to their posts?
    
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    - Bloafer on November 10, 2011 at 9:09 pm said:
      
      The new version (0.8) should address this issue, please use the variable “link_title”
      
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      - Daryl Gochnauer on November 12, 2011 at 7:41 pm said:
        
        Thanks, it works!
nico on July 16, 2011 at 10:09 pm said:

How come the date of the post dissapears when this is used? how do I keep the date of the specific posts in there? thx

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- nico on August 2, 2011 at 12:34 am said:
  
  I wish i knew what the PHP code was to insert the date…any clue?
  
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  - Bloafer on August 17, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:
    
    Updated in version 0.5
    
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- Bloafer on August 17, 2011 at 6:27 pm said:
  
  Updated in the latest version
  
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ZeroGround on July 16, 2011 at 8:15 pm said:

I’m pulling in a blog posts from an assigned category to the specific page I’ve defined, however It’s still showing the full article, even after using the split_point parameter. [posts-to-page cat_ID=71 show_title=true split_point=""] I’m using wp 3.2.1

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- Bloafer on July 16, 2011 at 9:03 pm said:
  
  please ensure you are editing in HTML view and not visual, visual mode will remove the comments from the tag, you must also use the code in the text for the post
  
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George on July 12, 2011 at 5:14 pm said:

Sorry, but I can’t figure out how to make this work.

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- Bloafer on July 12, 2011 at 6:16 pm said:
  
  We have added a tutorial on this plugin Tutorial
  
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Jaffe on July 5, 2011 at 6:26 pm said:

Just when I was looking to figure out how to do this EXACT thing you come along and make it happen. THANK YOU!

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Kay Williams on July 5, 2011 at 10:54 am said:

Nice plugin. All you can find is the donate page. No instructions on how to use the plugin?

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- Bloafer on July 5, 2011 at 11:03 am said:
  
  I have updated this page to include a little more information
  
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