<?php

​

  function myIthelpline_posts_shortcode($atts, $content = null)

  {

​

    global $post;

​

    extract(shortcode_atts(array(

      'cat' => '',

      'num' => '5',

      'order' => 'DESC',

      'orderby' => '',

    ), $atts));

    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

    $args = array(

      'cat' => $cat,

      'posts_per_page' => $num,

      'order' => $order,

      'orderby' => $orderby,

    );

​

    $output = '';

​

    $query = new WP_Query($args);

    if ($query->have_posts()) : $output;

​

      while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post();

​

        $output .= '<article id="post-' . get_the_ID() . '" class="' . implode(' ', get_post_class()) . '">';

​

​

​

        $output .= '<div class="row">';

        if (has_post_thumbnail()) {

​

          $output .= '<div class="col-md-6">';

​

          $output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title('', '', false) . '">';

​

          $output .= get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_id(), 'medium', array('class' => 'img-responsive aligncenter'));

​

          $output .= '</a>';

​

          $output .= '</div>';

          $output .= '<div class="col-md-6">';

          $output .= '<h4 class="post-title"><span><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title('', '', false) . '">' . the_title('', '', false) . '</a></span></h4>';

          $output .= get_the_excerpt();

​

​

          $output .= '</div>';

​

          $output .= '</div>';

​

          $output .= '<div class="post-info">';

​

          $output .= '</div>';

        } else {

​

          $output .= '<div class="col-md-12">';

          $output .= '<h4 class="post-title"><span><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title('', '', false) . '">' . the_title('', '', false) . '</a></span></h4>';

          $output .= get_the_excerpt();

​

​

          $output .= '</div>';

​

          $output .= '</div>';

​

          $output .= '<div class="post-info">';

​

          $output .= '</div>';

        }

​

​

​

​

        $output .= '</article>';

​

      endwhile;

      global $wp_query;

      $args_pagi = array(

        'base' => add_query_arg('paged', '%#%'),

        'total' => $query->max_num_pages,

        'current' => $paged

      );

      $output .= '<div class="post-nav">';

      $output .= paginate_links($args_pagi);

​

      // $output .= '<div class="next-page">' . get_next_posts_link( "Older Entries »", 3 ) . '</div>';

​

      $output .= '</div>';

​

    else :

​

      $output .= '<p>Sorry, there are no posts to display</p>';

​

    endif;

​

    wp_reset_postdata();

​

    return $output;

  }

  add_shortcode('blog_posts', 'myIthelpline_posts_shortcode'); ?>

    [blog_posts num="5" cat="41"]