This is how to display posts by category with shortcode

Love it!

Clarification: To reiterate Toni’s advice in another thread, using the “Category ID” for this purpose does not work properly. So always use the CategoryName if you want tiles to pick posts out of a category!

Application: I use this so that posts in my blog category appear as tiles on the homepage without having to make a change to the homepage shortcode each time I publish a new blog/news post. Posts in other categories form our website’s static content, so they don’t belong as tiles. If you do similar, ensure your posts in the relevant category each contain at least one image for best effect.