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

Custom Post Types, Events, Products support
Tags, custom taxonomies and authors as filters, with ANY, NOT and AND
Auto-sizing Grid layout
Image-Slider and News-Ticker (horizontal or vertical)
Masonry responsive grid layout
Query type “Matching” for tags, custom taxonomies, post type archives, author, date and search
Custom field support in the Template
Asymmetrical list layouts
Full background images
Shortcode support in the Template
Pagination with your own link text and number of links
Search term in the title
All free features
E-Mail support
More examples on the demo pages

Features

Block for the block editor and Site Editor.
Query types: “Default” takes over the query of the page (e.g. archive templates), “Matching” shows posts from the category of the current archive or post, “Custom” uses the block’s own filter
Template to arrange the post details.
The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons.
‘Load more’ button / Ajax API or pagination
Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit)
Option show post author, comment’s count, post date
Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp)
Option exclude current post, also inside a Query Loop
Date range filter
Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private
Add option for post offset (use two or more blocks after another)
Show the archive title as the block title
“Edit template” links in the category and post lists
Item Title heading level buttons
Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail
Set a default thumbnail
Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail
Fluid images (max-width in %)
One thumb dimension can be left empty
Font-icon support
New date format: Time since published
Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”
Hide the block text, if there is no post
Classic editor: toolbar button to insert the shortcode

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).