Latest Post Shortcode 9.0

• NEW Support for attachments as tiles
• NEW Date filters
• The plugin has been tested up to WordPress 5.1.1
• Added the tile image alt attribute
• Fixed the as-overlay tiles without links

Support for Attachments as Tiles/Cards

This enhancement allows you to configure and expose the media images (attachment post type) as tiles.

If you use any advanced media library that handles image categories and tags as standard taxonomies, taxonomies terms, and post taxonomies terms relationships, you would be able to filter the images by categories and tags like any other post type.

Show Mime Type

There are two new extra options for the tiles when using the attachment post type:

• Show mime type: this will output after the title “Mime Type: type” text
• Show mime type as CSS class: this will add the mime type CSS class to the tile wrapper element (for example, if the attachment mime type is image/png, the classes would be item-mime-type mime-png mime-image-png)

As a note, please make sure you select the inherit status for images if you need to expose only attachments with the shortcode, as this is the native default status for this post type, instead of published.

Date Filters

This is a new feature that allows you to filter the published posts by date. There are two types of date limits:

The range of dates

This option allows you to filter the selection by setting the after date, the before date, or both of these.

The dynamic range

You will be able to specify a dynamic range of dates, calculated based on how many months, weeks, days, or hours ago the items were published.

See below an example:

[latest-selected-content limit="4" display="title,date,content-small" titletag="h3" chrlimit="120" date_after="2019-03-10" date_before="2019-03-23" image="medium" elements="1" css="two-columns tall as-overlay light" type="attachment" status="inherit" orderby="dateD" show_extra="show_mime,taxpos_show_mime_after-date,show_mime_class"]

For styling purposes, I added to this example some minimal CSS, to make it look different, but you can style it as you need. My example style is:

.latest-post-selection article .item-mime-type {
	background: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
	color: #000;
	display: block;
	font-size: 10px;
	padding: 0 5px;
	position: relative;
	text-align: right;
}