Nick Momrik

<p>Retrieves a list of the most recent posts.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>You may pass parameters when calling the function to configure some of the options.<br />
Example: <code>mdv_recent_posts(10, '', '<br />', true, 5, false, false)</code></p>
<p>The parameters:<br />
$no_posts – sets the number of recent posts to display<br />
$before – text to be displayed before the link to the recent post<br />
$after – text to be displayed after the link to the recent post<br />
$hide_pass_post – whether or not to display password protected posts<br />
$skip_posts – allows skipping of a number of posts before showing the number of posts specified with the $no_posts parameter<br />
$show_excerpts – allows the post excerpt to be output after the post title<br />
$include_pages – allows recent pages to be show with recent posts</p>
<h3>Version History</h3>
<p>1.1.2 – Added a space before rel=”bookmark”<br />
1.1.3 – Fix the space for real. Props Sandro Bonazzola<br />
1.2   – Use the esc_* functions and cleanup coding standards</p>


pjgalbraith

<p>An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.</p>
<p>Features Include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Display post thumbnails, with customizable size.</li>
<li>Display post excerpt, author, comment count, and more. </li>
<li>Provides options to trim the number of characters in the title and excerpt.</li>
<li>Override the post order to order by; date modified, title, post ID, random, comment count etc.</li>
<li>Exclude or include specific posts, authors, tags, or categories.</li>
<li>Also includes a simple template parser so you can override the default output making custom styling easy.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/</p>


Recent Posts vs Recent Posts Plus