Prasanna SP

This plugin creates a new widget which allows you to show recent posts by tags. The default Recent Posts widget in WordPress shows recent posts belonging to all categories. But this plugin gives you the option to show recent posts by tags. It is helpful if you are mainly using tags to categorize your posts.
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This plugin is designed to help you curate your content. It lets you assign and order stories within zones that you create, edit, and delete, and display those groupings of related stories on your site.
This plugin was originally built by <a href="http://digitalize.ca" rel="nofollow ugc">Mohammad Jangda</a> in conjunction with <a href="http://wpdavis.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">William Davis</a> and the <a href="http://www.bangordailynews.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bangor Daily News</a>.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add, edit, and delete zones.</li>
<li>Add and remove posts (or any custom post type) to or from zones.</li>
<li>Order posts in any given zone.</li>
<li>Limit capabilities on who can add, edit, and delete zones vs add content to zones.</li>
<li>Locking mechanism, so only one user can edit a zone at a time (to avoid conflicts).</li>
<li>Idle control, so people can’t keep the zone locked.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Function Reference</h3>
Get an array of all zones:
<pre><code>z_get_zones()
</code></pre>
Get a single zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_zone( $zone )
</code></pre>
Get an array of ordered posts in a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_posts_in_zone( $zone )
</code></pre>
Get a WP_Query object for a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_zone_query( $zone );
</code></pre>
More functions listed in <code>functions.php</code>.

Zone Manager (Zoninator)

Content curation made easy! Create "zones" then add and order your content!

Recent Posts by Tags vs Zone Manager (Zoninator)