A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
This plugin creates a new widget which lets you show a list of recent posts based on categories or tags. This is a must have plugin if you want to exclude some categories in recent posts widget or if you want to show recent posts based on tags. By default the wordpress recent posts widget shows a posts from all category. But this plugin gives you more power to customize your recent posts widget. You can also display post date in the widget.
See the live action of this plugin on demo site or on Kennneth John Odle’s blog.
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Extract the contents of the .zip archive
Upload the custom-recent-posts-widget
folder to your wp-content/plugins
directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Go to Appearance –> Widgets to add the widget to any widgetized areas.
Custom Recent Posts Widget
Custom Recent Post Widget when added to sidebar on widget menu. Here the number of posts to show is set to 6 and only the 'Wordpress' category is selected
Custom Recent Post Widget showing a list of 6 recent posts from the category 'Wordpress'
Custom Recent Post Widget in Kennneth John Odle's blog
Custom Recent Posts by Tags Widget
Custom Recent Posts by Tags Widget configuration
Custom Recent Posts widget with date in 2012 theme
Extract the contents of the .zip archive
Upload the custom-recent-posts-widget
folder to your wp-content/plugins
directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Go to Appearance –> Widgets to add the widget to any widgetized areas.
The widgets inherit the style of default WordPress Recent Posts widget. You can use .crpw-item
and .crpw-tag-item
CSS class to style Custom Recent Posts Widget and Custom Recent Posts by Tags Widget respectively.
Example
.crpw-item { font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; list-style: disc inside; }
widget_recent_entries
. No more confusions. All themes should be happy now. Thanks Adam Parnala for bringing my attention to this issue.Note: If it doesn’t show recent posts after updating the plugin, go to widgets and just hit Save button in the Recent Posts widget configuration
widget_recent_entries
. So, widget will inherit the style of default WordPress Recent Posts widget.crpw_register_widgets
function to register the widget