Everything made by Tom and his team is top notch. Support is better than great. This plugin is no exception. While it's not actually rocket science, it provides all the features you will need in a neat and tidy way. Like his excellent Generatepress theme everything is done with attention to the details. Awesome!

Had a small issue and got quick support. While I was waiting I tried a couple of other plugins that have the same purpose. They were at first glace more fully featured, but I found the simplicity of WP Show Posts to actually give better result on the page.

The plugin is lightweight, simple to use, but most importantly the support team helps a lot if you get stuck so it's the perfect plugin! 😀

LOVE LOVE LOVE this plugin. WordPress asks you if you want your home page to be a static page or posts and now you can have both - WITHOUT using a page builder. Just set it to page, create content within that page and just plugin the SHORT CODE where you want the posts to appear. So easy, and perfect for my web dev agency with client sites. Thank you!

Seems abandoned for a year or so

I was using Elementor Pro in my sites using Generate Press Premium to display recent posts based on categories on my Home pages as well as category pages. The problem is that Elementor (like most page builders) adds a ton of unused CSS & JS that's render-blocking. This, despite my best efforts, failed Web Vitals in Pagespeed Insights. My idea was to replicate the layouts I have with Elementor by using a lighter weight post grid plugin and just some shortcodes. The problem, I discovered, is that the many post grid plugins I tried are (1) poorly coded and still have far too much overhead, failing page speed tests, and (2) aren't very refined and don't look as good as their demos when in real use. As a last-ditch effort (before hiring a paid developer to work on render-blocking Elementor code) I tried WP Show Posts and it worked! I'm now using WP Show Posts Pro and have been able to remove Elementor Pro completely yet have a nearly identical layout & styling. Pagespeed Insights scores are 99 on mobile for these pages and all Web Vitals are passed! Bear in mind, that took some custom CSS and tweaking to get WPSP working as I liked, as in some regards it wasn't mobile friendly like I expected - still some room for improvement there I think (ex.: desktop thumbnails don't resize to fit the post grid container on mobile). Also, documentation isn't so great in my opinion, and the demo pages are missing some of the layout styles you can use, making it hard to know which to try. Also, you can't export Lists you create and then import them on other sites, meaning for all 4 sites I had to manually re-do all of it manually. Those are all relatively minor complaints when compared to the end results. It's very lightweight and recommended. The Card and 3 Overlay options are nice as well. I recommend it. 🙂