Category Posts Block is a light block designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category. Category Posts Block Use the “Category Posts” block in the Gutenberg editor to place the post list anywhere in your content. All options are available in the block si
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.6 and PHP 7.2.
SourceWordPress plugins · Nov 7, 2026
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Aboutthistool.
Category Posts Block is a light block designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category.
Category Posts Block
Use the “Category Posts” block in the Gutenberg editor to place the post list anywhere in your content. All options are available in the block sidebar panels: Title, Filter, Details, Thumbnail, Excerpt, Footer, Load more and General. Several blocks can be used on the same page, each with its own settings.
Term and Category based Posts Block
A premium version of that free block available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites.
Premium features
Auto-sizing Grid layout
Custom field support in the Template
Shortcode support in the Template
Image-Slider (or News-Ticker)
Asymmetrical list layouts
Full background images
Masonry responsive grid layout
More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …)
Custom Post Types, Events, Products support
All free features
E-Mail support
More examples on the demo pages
Features
Block for the block editor and Site Editor.
Template to arrange the post details.
The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons.
Font-icon support
‘Load more’ button / Ajax API
Item Title heading level buttons
Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp)
Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private
Add option for post offset (use two or more blocks after another)
Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode
Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”
Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit)
Fluid images (max-width in %)
One thumb dimension can be left empty
Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail
Set a default thumbnail
Hide the block text, if there is no post
Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail
Option exclude current post
Option show post author, comment’s count, post date
Documentation
Full documentation
Formatting date and time: See Formatting Date and Time
Contribute
While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at Github (If possible with a pull request).
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
Front end of the block with SVG font-icon support for post formats, hover effects and post tags.Block behaviour settings for each user.The Template text-area with the placeholder buttons to arrange the post details.The Category Posts block in the editor: Template, item title heading level and excerpt settings.The Category Posts block in the editor: filter by category, status, date range, sort order and offset.The Category Posts block used in the Site Editor.
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Gettingstarted.
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of Category Posts Block
01Log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
02In the search field type “Category Posts Block” and click Search Plugins.
03Once you’ve found plugin, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
04Then, go to plugins page of WordPress admin activate the plugin.
05Add the “Category Posts Block” to a post, page or template in the editor.
Manual installation
06Download the plugin.
07Upload it to the plugins folder of your blog.
08Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
09Add the “Category Posts Block” to a post, page or template in the editor.
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Frequently asked questions.
Template, placeholder and post detail
Here You can control the Post Detail parts , which appears as part of the post item. All post detail will placed as placeholder. The text in the Template area can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or HTML for SVG icons.
How it works? and examples.
For more layout options please try our premium block: Term and Category based Posts Block .
Use SVG icons
For SVG font-icon HTML we recommend the WordPress Dashicons , which are included as default and can be used without any font-icon including.
The font-size is different from that of other blocks or Theme elements?
Use the option: ‘Disable only font style’ in the General panel.
I want the title as a link pointing to the selected Categorie page?
Is just a single category selected in the Filter panel: Enable the check box “Make block title link”. Is ‘All categories’ selected in the Filter panel: Use the text field ‘Title link URL’.
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