Plugin: List Posts on Pages
July 13, 2009
This fantastic plugin gives you yet another way to get your target audiences to the blog posts they are interested in quicker. On a standard WordPress blog, you have several ways of displaying your posts but all of these options keep your posts very separate from your pages.
The List Category Posts Plugin opens up a whole new set of layout options on a WordPress site combining static web pages and blog posts. It allows you to present your posts in a much more personal way rather than trying to appeal to everyone at once. Following are some ideas and examples of how to use the plugin to improve your WordPress blog.
Create Custom Pages for Each Target Audience
Using this plugin, create a new page for each blog category. Include a description at the top of what the posts in that category are about, who will benefit from reading them and a call to action. Eg. ‘Join our mailing list to receive future posts direct to your inbox’. You could also include a photo if appropriate and even a couple of downloadable files which compliment the category. Then insert the code to list posts in that category and you are away. (instructions below)
NOTE: If you have a lot of different categories, you may want these pages to be child pages appearing in a drop down under the parent category called “Blog” or similar. [Read more]
