Nick Adams

Revault Media

<p>This easy to use WordPress plugin is designed to add a new feature for theme developers. Used on many of my own websites as well as those of my clients, the plugin allows me to quickly add a collection of recent posts to any theme element.</p>
<p>The plugin can easily be used by website owners as a WordPress Widget, adding lists of posts to the Sidebar of a WordPress website.</p>
<h4>About the plugin</h4>
<p>More advanced users can also call the functionality of the plugin from a WordPress shortcode by adding the code <code>[thisismyurl_easy_recent_posts]</code> to any Post or Page within WordPress.</p>
<p>Finally, theme authors may also take advantage of the plugin by calling the functionality directly from theme files with the code <code>thisismyurl_easy_recent_posts();</code>.</p>
<p>This plugin was authored by by Christopher Ross</p>
<p>Questions about this plugin can be posted to the WordPress.org forums at https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-recent-posts/, or to the Issues tab at the GitHub https://github.com/thisismyurl/easy-recent-posts repository for the plugin.</p>
<p>This plugin is currently available in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates</h3>
<p>Updates to this plugin will be posted to the GitHub repository for testing prior to updates on WordPress.org, if you’d like to help make this plugin better please consider taking part in regular code reviews of releases at the GitHub repository.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>Open source software such as this free WordPress plugin only work through the hard work of community members, volunteering their time or resources to make the software freely available. If you would like to show your support for this software, please consider donating towards the development effort. http://thisismyurl.com/downloads/</p>
<p>If you can’t contribute to the plugin in any other way, please consider translating it to your local language.</p>


Easy Recent Posts

An easy to use WordPress function to add recent posts to any theme.

yakuphan

<p>Advanced Most Recent Posts Widget displays your recent posts with thumbnail images (optional). It gets posts from selected categories or current category or all categories. When your visitors are at home, it gets posts from all posts or selected category. If you set ‘Get posts from current category’, when visitors see single post, widget lists posts in the same category of single post or when visitors click a category link, it gets posts from current category.</p>
<p>Notice: This widget requires at least 2.8.</p>
<h3>Options</h3>
<p>Widget’s options allow you to change your recent posts list displaying.</p>
<h4>Title:</h4>
<p>Your recent posts widget’s title on your sidebar.</p>
<h4>Number of posts to show:</h4>
<p>How many posts to display</p>
<h4>Excerpt length (letters)</h4>
<p>You know that</p>
<h4>Thumbnail Custom Field Name</h4>
<p>If you want to display the thumbnail of your posts via a custom field, write its name.</p>
<h4>Height – Width</h4>
<p>Images size.</p>
<h4>Get first image of post</h4>
<p>If you don’t want to use custom field, plugin will get first image from your post content.</p>
<h4>Get first attached image of post</h4>
<p>Plugin gets first attached image of post.</p>
<h4>Default image</h4>
<p>If post has no image, plugin display this image. Ex: http://www.yakupgovler.com/default-image.png</p>
<p>Notice: If you use three options, plugin uses custom field image firstly. If the post has no custom field, it gets first image from content. At last it gets first attached image. I suggest not to use “Get first image of post” for performance. It queries much more.</p>
<h4>Categories</h4>
<p>Plugin gets posts in these categories. (Category IDs, separated by commas.)</p>
<h4>Get posts from current category:</h4>
<p>Posts will be get from current category (single post’s category or current category).</p>


Advanced Most Recent Posts

Display most recent posts from selected categories or current category or all categories with thumbnail images (optional).

Easy Recent Posts vs Advanced Most Recent Posts