Stephanie Leary

<p>A widget that lists your most recent posts with excerpts, optionally limited to a category. The number of posts and excerpts is configurable; for example, you could show the titles of five posts but include the excerpt for only the two most recent. Supports <a href="http://robsnotebook.com/the-excerpt-reloaded/" rel="nofollow ugc">the_excerpt Reloaded</a> and <a href="http://sparepencil.com/code/advanced-excerpt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Excerpt</a> for excerpts with HTML formatting.</p>
<p>New! Supports displaying post thumbnails along with excerpts. Widget options let you place the thumbnails above the title, in between the title and the excerpt, or below the excerpt.</p>
<p>Now on <a href="https://github.com/sillybean/Recent-Posts-with-Excerpts" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Serbo-Croatian (sr-RS) by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Borisa Djuraskovic</a></li>
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<p>If you would like to send me a translation, please write to me through <a href="http://stephanieleary.com/about/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">my contact page</a>. Let me know which plugin you’ve translated and how you would like to be credited. I will write you back so you can attach the files in your reply.</p>


fusionstream

<p>blogsiread is a highly customisable widget inspired by Blogger’s “Blogs I Read” function that takes excerpts from other blogs (via Links) and displays them in a small widget on your blog.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Change widget title</li>
<li>Automatically selects blogs from “Links” based on “Categories”</li>
<li>Optional – Show Site Title (either from link name or meta tags)</li>
<li>Optional – Show Post Title</li>
<li>Optional – Show Post Excerpt (250 characters max, plain text)</li>
<li>Optional – Order listing by “as ordered in Links page”, Post Published Date, Link Name, Site Title, Post Title. All can be additionally sorted in descending or ascending order.</li>
<li>Clicking on entries can open in a new window or in the same window</li>
<li>You can customise your widget by adding a css class.</li>
</ul>
<h4>TODO</h4>
<ul>
<li>More customisable layout</li>
<li>Limit total entries and more importantly, before loading their xml-s</li>
<li>Complete or co-operative ajax to reduce server load and more importantly, page loading times</li>
<li>Make the category selector look pretty</li>
<li>Allow customisable Post Excerpt character limit</li>
<li>Do that cool thing where the widget title in the admin page is “blogsiread: “</li>
</ul>
<p>For those who are using a custom CSS Class, structure of widget content is as follows (some lines may not be displayed at all depending on widget options – see #):<br />
    <p class=”yourCustomClassName”><br />
    #    <a rel=”sitetitle”….</a> OR if site url is blank: <span rel=”sitetitle”……</span><br />
    #    <a rel=”posttitle”….</a> OR if post url is blank: <span rel=”posttitle”……</span><br />
    #    <span rel=”desc”>…CONTENT…</span><br />
         <span rel=”timeago”>…TIME…</span><br />
    </p></p>


blogsiread

Displays user-definable content from other blogs (via wordpress Links [RSS]) as a widget in your blog in a highly customisable format.

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