Flexible Recent Posts Plugin

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Flexible Recent Posts (FRP) plugin gives you possibility to add widget to your blog with recent posts using user-defined template.

The main features are:

• Template for each post in widget. You can write your HTML-template or overwrite default in widget form.
• Shortcodes support in template. You can use built-in shortcodes to insert info related to current post in widget: title, featured image, excerpt, date, permalink, author, comments.
• Restrict terms from which you want to display posts. Display posts from all terms or from selected only.
• Number of posts to display. Set number of latest posts that will be displayed in widget.
• All posts links. Select option to display link near the title or/and after all posts that will open selected posts category page. Set link title or custom link URL.

Useful links:

• Template shortcodes
• Feature requests
• Bugs
• Donate (Flattr)

Translators:

• Russian (ru) – Paul Annekov

Licenses

• Uses FatCow Icon Set licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Shortcodes

Plugin template system supports 5 shortcodes related to current widget post, that you can use in your template:

Title [frp_title]

Displays post title.

Example: <h4>[frp_title]</h4>

Excerpt [frp_excerpt length=””]

Displays post excerpt using get_the_excerpt function.
You can specify excerpt length using length attribute. If not specified – default WordPress excerpt length used.

Example: <div class="excerpt">[frp_excerpt]</div>, [frp_excerpt length="15"]

Date [frp_date format=”F j, Y” time_since=”0″]

Displays post date. You can add format shortcode parameter to change date format. Read about format value here.
Add time_since parameter with 1 as value to display amount of elapsed time: 30 seconds ago, 5 minutes ago, 12 hours ago, 3 Jun.

Example: <div class="date">[frp_date format="Y/m/d g:i:s A"]</div>, <div class="elapsed">[frp_date time_since="1"]</div>

Link [frp_link]

Displays post permalink.

Example: <a href="[frp_link]">read more</a>

Featured image [frp_thumbnail size=”32×32″]

Displays featured post image. Add size shortcode parameter to change image size. You can define size using WIDTHxHEIGHT as value or size name (built-in or defined in theme).

Examples: [frp_thumbnail], [frp_thumbnail size="thumbnail"], [frp_thumbnail size="128x128"], [frp_thumbnail size="full"]

Author [frp_author link=”1″]

Displays name of the post’s author. Set link parameter to 0 if you want to disable link (author’s site) from author name.

Examples: [frp_author], [frp_author link="1"], [frp_author link="0"]

Comments [frp_comments no_text=”1″]

Displays the number of comments. Set no_text parameter to 1 if you want to disable comment text (just “23” instead of “23 Comments”).

Examples: [frp_comments], [frp_comments no_text="1"], [frp_comments no_text="0"]

1. Upload flexible-recent-posts folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to wp-admin/widgets.php page, move Flexible Recent Posts widget to any sidebar and change its defaults

1. 

   Widget options form

2. 

   Widget on frontend

How can I change visual style of widget?

You can edit style.css file in your theme adding needed styles. I will made some predefined styles in feature.

I have created language pack or updated existing one. How can I send it to you?

Send gettext PO and MO files to me. You can find out my contacts here.

1.0.4

• Increased priority of excerpt length filter.

1.0.3

• Fixed problem with CSS stylesheet in page content and not in the head section.

1.0.2

• Fixed problem with missing compressed JS file.

1.0.1

• Added [frp_comments] shortcode.
• Fixed bug when main posts Loop was broken by widget.
• Added length attribute to [frp_excerpt] shortcode.

1.0.0

• Added taxonomies and custom posts support. Now you can use not only categories and regular posts, but custom taxonomies and custom posts.
• More native posts querying procedure.
• Fixed bug when author was not shown on search results page.

0.3

• Added [frp_author] shortcode.
• Added time_since parameter to frp_date shortcode to display amount of elapsed time (like on twitter).

0.2

• Added global post replacement to make shortcodes more native. Now you can use plugin shortcodes in post content.
• Added categories list disable if ‘All categories’ checkbox is checked.
• Fixed PHP Notices if featured image exists in template with size defined as WIDTHxHEIGHT.
• Fixed shortcodes insert after widget form save.
• Fixed buttons actions on just created widgets on Widgets page.

0.1

• Init version.