This widget displays the recent posts on a category page for that category
An easy to use Recent Posts Plugin. This plugin will allow you to display the recent posts in a sidebar only on a category page.
New Features Added
Installing is pretty easy takes only a minute or two.
Upload ‘category-recent-posts-widget.zip’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
On the ‘Widgets’ sub-menu of ‘Appearance’ you will find a new widget type called ‘Category Recent Posts’.
Add one or more of these to your themes widget display areas.
For each widget you add, select a title.
For each widget you add, specify the number of posts to display in the widget, show/ hide excerpt or specify the number of words to display in excerpt
Specify the Read More text that will be displayed after the excerpt in the sidebar. This defaults to ellipses […] if the field is left blank
Save your settings.
That’s it. Enjoy!
The widget will be displayed only on the ‘Category Archive Page’
Yes. You can style it as required. The recent posts list are wrapped in an unordered HTML list having CSS class “.tm-recent”. The excerpt is wrapped in a div tag with the CSS class “.tm-excerpt”. The complete widget itself is wrapped in the CSS class “.tm-cat-recent-post”
The Read More link is wrapped in the CSS class “.tm-read-more-text”. You can style this class n your stylesheet.