Description
This plugin will enable a custom, flexible and super advanced recent posts, you can display it via shortcode or widget. Allows you to display a list of the most recent posts with thumbnail, excerpt and post date, also you can display it from all or specific or multiple taxonomy, post type and much more!
Features Include
- Taxonomy support!
- Post status option.
- Custom html or text before and/or after recent posts.
- Available filter for dev.
- Shortcode feature.
- Better image cropping.
- Allow you to set title url.
- Display by date, comment count or random.
- Display thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment.
- Display excerpt, with customizable length.
- Display from all, specific or multiple category.
- Display from all, specific or multiple tag.
- Display post date.
- Display modification date
- Display comment count
- Exclude current post
- Read more option.
- Post type option.
- Custom CSS.
- Multiple widgets.
Support this project
- Translate to your language.
- Contribute on Github.
- Donate.
Shorcode Explanation
Explanation of shortcode options:
Basic shortcode
[rpwe]
Display 10 recent posts
[rpwe limit="10"]
Display 10 recent posts with thumbnail
[rpwe limit="10" thumb="true"]
Here’s the full default shortcode arguments
limit="5"
offset=""
order="DESC"
orderby="date"
post_type="post"
cat=""
tag=""
taxonomy=""
post_type="post"
post_status="publish"
ignore_sticky="1"
taxonomy=""
excerpt="false"
length="10"
thumb="true"
thumb_height="45"
thumb_width="45"
thumb_default="http://placehold.it/45x45/f0f0f0/ccc"
thumb_align="rpwe-alignleft"
date="true"
readmore="false"
readmore_text="Read More »"
styles_default="true"
cssID=""
before=""
after=""
Installation
Through Dashboard
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins -> Add New
- Type recent posts widget extended in the search box and click on search button.
- Find Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin.
- Then click on Install Now after that activate the plugin.
- Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
- Find Recent Posts Extended widget.
Installing Via FTP
- Download the plugin to your hardisk.
- Unzip.
- Upload the recent-posts-widget-extended folder into your plugins directory.
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel and click the Plugins menu.
- Then activate the plugin.
- Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
- Find Recent Posts Extended widget.
FAQ
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How to filter the post query?
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You can use
rpwe_default_query_arguments
to filter it. Example:add_filter( 'rpwe_default_query_arguments', 'your_custom_function' ); function your_custom_function( $args ) { $args['posts_per_page'] = 10; // Changing the number of posts to show. return $args; }
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How to filter the post excerpt?
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Post excerpt now comes with filter to easily dev to change/customize it.
apply_filters( 'rpwe_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() )
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Ordering not working!
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Did you installed any Post or Post Type Order? Please try to deactivate it and try again the ordering. (related question)
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No image options
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Your theme needs to support Post Thumbnail, please go to https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails to read more info and how to activate it in your theme.
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How to add custom style?
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First, please uncheck the Use Default Style option then place the css code below in the Custom CSS box, then you can customize it to fit your needs
.rpwe-block ul { list-style: none !important; margin-left: 0 !important; padding-left: 0 !important; } .rpwe-block li { border-bottom: 1px solid #eee; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; list-style-type: none; } .rpwe-block a { display: inline !important; text-decoration: none; } .rpwe-block h3 { background: none !important; clear: none; margin-bottom: 0 !important; margin-top: 0 !important; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 1.5em; } .rpwe-thumb { border: 1px solid #eee !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 2px 10px 2px 0; padding: 3px !important; } .rpwe-summary { font-size: 12px; } .rpwe-time { color: #bbb; font-size: 11px; } .rpwe-alignleft { display: inline; float: left; } .rpwe-alignright { display: inline; float: right; } .rpwe-aligncenter { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } .rpwe-clearfix:before,.rpwe-clearfix:after { content: ""; display: table !important; } .rpwe-clearfix:after { clear: both; } .rpwe-clearfix { zoom: 1; }
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Why so many !important in the css code?
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I know it’s not good but I have a good reason, the
!important
is to make sure the built-in style compatible with all themes. But if you don’t like it, you can turn of the Use Default Styles and remove all custom css code in the Custom CSS box then create your own style. -
Available filters
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Default arguments
rpwe_default_args
Post excerpt
rpwe_excerpt
Post markup
rpwe_markup
Post query arguments
rpwe_default_query_arguments
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Recent Posts Widget Extended” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Recent Posts Widget Extended” has been translated into 14 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
1.0.0 – Feb 17, 2021
- This is just a maintenance update after a couple years with no update. Thank you for still using this plugin 🥳