Last, we need to put our plugin to work!
All you have to do is first either create your page or click edit on the page you'd like to add posts to.
Be sure that the posts you want to show up are all tagged under one category or tag slug.
You can type whatever you want on the page itself and add the code wherever in the text area you want it to appear.
Just go to the "text" editor instead of the "visual" editor and place your cursor where you want the posts to appear.
Add this code:
[add_posts category="category-slug" tag="tag-slug" show="5" h="2" full="false" readmore="Read more link text" img="false"
Once you've pasted this code, edit it accordingly so that your posts are showing up the way you want them to.
I'd suggest only using either a category slug or a tag slug, not both.
You also have to have a "read more" break in your post for the "read more" function to work properly. If you have "read more" in the code with no page breaks in your original post, the whole post will show.
To prevent this from happening, either edit your post with page breaks or remove " readmore="Read more link text" " from the code.
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On the other hand, as I see this plugin has not been updated for 2 years. here is the warning I see: "This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress."
So I would be careful with it.
With this method you can control exactly what shows up as far as the exerpts and images, headers, etc. Plus you can write around the page instead of the posts just being listed.
This is just if you want a certain page to show a list or excerpts if you click on the link from the menu (or from anywhere someone can access your page from), not just hover over it.
Example: Your menu consists of "Home", "Work at Home Ideas", "Reviews", "Scams", and "About Me". You may want to be able to hover over About Me and have "Contact" page as your subpage. To do this, you edit the menu. And you may also want a few work at Home ideas to pop up as a subpage under that. But what if, every time you made a new "review" post, you wanted it to appear all in one spot, without having to edit the menu, and also didnt want a whole bunch or subpages under "reviews"? This is what you do to accomplish that. Otherwise, when you click "Reviews" it will come up blank.
You can also have many different "menus" if you want. I use about 3-4 on my site for footer menus, social media menus, etc.
Categories are basically the same as tags, they are just relevant keywords that have to do with your content. Just like hashtags on social media. They also help organize your posts. Like i mentioned above, for every review you write, tag it as review, or put it under a "reviews" category when editing on WordPress.
If you did what I suggested in this training, you can now hit "http://yourwebsite.com/reviews" and your posts should appear however you like them to.
I hope that made a little more sense.
