Description
A simple WordPress plugin that creates WordPress shortcode that will loop through posts, pages, or custom post types and display them on your website or blog. A typical use would be to show your latest post on your homepage.
Installation
Use WordPress’ Add New Plugin feature, searching “AC custom loop”, or download the archive and:
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/ac-wp-custom-loopdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Add the shortcode [ac_custom_loop] to the content area of any page, post or custom post type or to any widget that supports shortcode.
- By default the shortcode will display your latest 4 post, you can use the ‘type’ and ‘show’ arguments to customise the type of post that are shown and how many eg. [ac_custom_loop type=”page” show=”3″] would show the last three published pages.
FAQ
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Can I use my own template to display the looped posts?
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Yes you can! Simply copy loop-template.php from the plugin folder to the root of your theme folder and edit as needed.
You can also create a template for each post type such as loop-template-post.php or loop-template-page.php or loop-template-my-custom-post.php
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Contributors and Developers
“AC Custom Loop Shortcode” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Change Log
1.5 (2021-04-04)
- Fix release issues.
1.4.3 (2019-12-06)
- Fix release issues.
1.4.2 (2019-12-24)
- Fix shortcode argument issues.
1.4.1 (2019-12-06)
- Fix release issues.
1.4.0 (2019-12-05)
- Added ids param to shortcode.
- Added post type templates.
- Added Timber template integration
1.1.0 (2018-10-16)
- Added optional excerpt to the default template.
- Added default post order (post = date, everything else = menu_order).
0.1.1 (2018-10-13)
- Added function to override template with the users own template
- Added GPLv2 licence
- Fixed some typos
0.1.0 (2018-10-07)
- Initial version on WP repository