[archive cat="3" posts="4" orderby="name" order="ASC"]Books[/archive]

Usage:

You can add a new page with your posts list. Just copy and past the shortcode above.

cat –> you can find the number id of your category under Posts –> Categories –> Edit, then in the top bar you can find “category&tag_ID=3″. Without the cat, the shortcode will show all posts from the blog section.

posts –> the number of posts that you want to show

orderby –> author, title (post title), name (post slug), date, rand (random)

order –> ASC (ascending) or DESC (descending)