Recent Posts FlexSlider Plugin

This slider uses the FlexSlider framework by WooThemes. Recent posts are displayed as a responsive slider. Posts can be selected by category or by post type if your theme uses custom post types.

The slider exists only as a widget, no settings page required. Visit Appearance > Widgets in your site dashboard, and place the Recent Posts Flexslider widget in your sidebar of choice.

Options that can be set:

• Title
• Category
• Post Type
• Image Size
• Slide Pause
• Slider Height
• Slide Duration
• Number of Slides
• Slider Animation Style
• Show or Hide Post Link
• Show or Hide Post Title
• Show or Hide Slide Controls
• Show or Hide Navigation Arrows
• Show or Hide Post Excerpt & Length
• Only Show Posts With Featured Image

Tested on the most popular WordPress themes for compatibility, including:

• Astra
• Escapade
• Genesis
• Hestia
• OceanWP
• Primer
• Total
• Zerif
• Twenty Ten
• Twenty Eleven
• Twenty Twelve
• Twenty Thirteen
• Twenty Fourteen
• Twenty Fifteen
• Twenty Sixteen
• Twenty Seventeen
• Twenty Nineteen
• Twenty Twenty

1. Upload the files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Place Recent Post Flexslider onto a sidebar on the Appearance->Widgets page

2.4.1 – 11 July 2021

• fixes widget setting styling for new widget block editor in WP v5.8.0

2.4.0 – 6 December 2020

• Updates to Flexslider v2.7.2
• Updates Flexslider default styling

2.3.0 – 16 August 2020

• Adds option to specify post content, post excerpt, or none. Props @kaquna

2.2.0 – 25 January 2020

• Adds only featured image selection, props @mociofiletto

2.1.3 – 19 January 2020

• Updates compatibility to WordPress v5.3.2
• Fixes image size selection issue, props @mociofiletto

2.1.2 – 21 February 2019

• Updates compatibility to WordPress v5.1.0
• Fixes stylesheet enqueue, props @butleraj

2.1.1 – 14 February 2019

• Updates styles to remove unused code, style fixes after testing in multiple top download WordPress themes, and organizes+minifies styles
• Adds version to stylesheet to fix cache issues
• Updates POT translation file

2.1.0 – 26 January 2019

• Tested up to WordPress v5.0.3
• Updates layout of widget options
• Displays post type label instead of name
• Validates options on save and load
• Adds option to show or hide slide navigation
• Adds option to show or hide slide controls
• Style fixes to slider

2.0.0 – 19 August 2018

• Tested up to WordPress v4.9.8
• Updates to Flexslider v2.7.1
• Removes create_function for PHP v7.0+ compatibility
• Updates layout of widget options
• Style of slider is imporved for image positioning and caption heights
• Updates translation file

1.6.3 – 10 March 2017

• Tested up to WordPress v4.7.3
• Fixed widget title to use widget_title filter

1.6.2 – 13 December 2016

• Tested up to WordPress v4.7
• Updated default animation time
• Cleaned display of code

1.6.1 – 13 January 2015

• Fixed bug on slide height when using fade animation

1.6 – 5 January 2015

• Added ability to select image display size
• Updated caption CSS

1.5 – 13 January 2014

• Updated to Flexslider v2.2.2
• Fixed image positioning
• Added ability to toggle post links on/off
• Added functionality to allow multiple sliders on one page
• Changed from get_the_excerpt() to get_the_content and stripped tags to allow longer excerpt captions than set by theme

1.4 – 2 October 2013

• Added Slider Animation Style
• Updated dropdowns to select() function

1.3

• Updated WP_Query
• Sticky Posts now ignored in slider
• Sizing bug for single slide fixed
• Margin removed for single slide
• Image vertically aligned in slide

1.2

• Reupload of core files

1.1

• CSS Optimization
• Dynamically load scripts and stylesheet only on views that include widget
• Load scripts in footer

1.0

• First Version