Neil Batchelor

EncodeDotHost

EDH Recent Category Manager removes the manual work of curating a “recent articles” category or tag. Once configured, the plugin silently monitors your site and ensures that exactly the number of posts you choose are always assigned to your selected category or tag — no more, no less.
Whenever a post is published, unpublished, or permanently deleted, the membership is recalculated instantly. The oldest post drops out and the newest one takes its place.
Features
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<li>Settings page nested under the Posts menu in the WordPress admin.</li>
<li>Choose to manage either a Category or a Tag.</li>
<li>Choose any existing category (excluding the site default) or any existing tag as the managed term.</li>
<li>Select between 1 and 15 posts to maintain.</li>
<li>Switching taxonomy type or changing the managed term cleanly removes the plugin’s assignments from the previous one.</li>
<li>Changing the post count takes effect immediately without waiting for the next publish event.</li>
<li>No configuration files or code edits required after activation.</li>
</ul>

EDH Recent Category Manager

Automatically maintains a configurable number of your latest published posts in a chosen category or tag, in real-time.

Eugen Bobrowski

News In Stack Widget plugin is developed flexible and simple to provide you maximum customization of your widget. Realy userful and helpful for developers.

News In Stack Widget

Just another recent post widget. Simple but flexible.

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