Rashed Latif

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TT Post Viewer is a plugin that lets you display Most recent posts, Most popular posts, Most commented posts, Related Posts, Featured Posts, Posts by author, Posts by category, Posts by date in widget area and also can be displayed in post area by using short codes. Posts can be displayed as List or with thumbnail. You can also select whether you want the excerpt to be displayed or not and you can also set the number of words to display.
This plugin is checked on different popular themes and it works fine in most themes. In some themes you may need to tweak style sheet to make it look better. For some themes it doesn’t install. So if you experience any difficulties at the time of installation please try to install on a different theme for test purpose to make sure its the theme causing this issue. Other than that it works absolutely fine with the latest version of wordpress. Few more features will be added in the future versions.
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TT Post Viewer

Plugin to display posts in different ways.

This plugin will scan your thumbnail-less posts and look for a suitable image to use as a thumbnail. 
It will look for images linked in the post content and will download and add them to the local library. 
Post scanning is performed only when <code>the_post_thumbnail</code> or <code>get_the_post_thumbnail</code> are called for 
that particular post.
So you designed your new thumbnail-based template, but you have tons of thumbnail-less posts and 
don’t want to spend too much time on scraping your old posts for a thumbnail picture. Maybe you 
think you will probably forget to set a thumbnail for your new posts. Maybe both, as was my case :).
When a thumbnail for a post is queried and nothing is found this plugin will scrape the post for 
an <code><img></code> tag and its <code>href</code> property. Once a suitabile image is found (based on the configured 
settings), it will be downloaded ad set as the post thumbnail. If no suitable image is found, 
a default one will be used.
This plugin is still in early development state. It just covers my needs (see the “To do” section 
for more details). It has been tested only with wordpress 3.0.1, but should work also with 2.9, 
since I used similar code with 2.9 (even if it was included in my template’s <code>functions.php</code>).
The plugin is not supported. This doesn’t mean that I will not look into submitted bugs. Anyway, 
don’t expect prompt answers, since this is done in my spare time.
<h3>To do</h3>
Many things should be done in future releases. Here are some:
<ul>
<li>Current version always downloads selected linked images. This works good with images hosted on external sites. 
If your posts link to images hosted in your media library, you will end up with two images.</li>
<li>A more user friendly name should be used for images added to the library (e.g. Thumbnail for post …)</li>
<li>Somewhere, a button to reset the “previously scanned” status of all posts should be provided (on current version, 
you cas set or reset it for single posts in the edit page.</li>
<li>“previously scanned” status should probably be reset (or at least you should be asked to) when publishing a 
updating an existing post</li>
</ul>
More ideas are wellcome.

Automatic Thumbnail Generator

Automated on-demand generation of posts thumbnails.

TT Post Viewer vs Automatic Thumbnail Generator