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)
Date range filter
New date format: Time since plublished
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).