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<p>You can display image slides with title, image, author name, date, description, and read more linked to posts from the selected category.<br />
You can order these elements as you wish using the drag & drop mechanism. Slides have a sightly animation effect.<br />
The user may select categories or other taxonomy items. This widget can also display custom post types.<br />
A number of slides are unlimited and you may specify how many slides you want to be visible in the column.</p>
<p>Please check out our <strong><a href="https://demo.wp-code-tips.com/wpct-drag-drop-recent-posts/" rel="nofollow ugc">DEMO</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Configuration (see screenshot of backend):</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Widget title.</li>
<li>Post type – enter post type name you want to display posts from.</li>
<li>Post type taxonomy – enter post type taxonomy name to restrict the data to display.</li>
<li>Taxonomy – select taxonomy items. You may select specified categories or display items from all categories. Empty taxonomy is not displayed.</li>
<li>Show archive links below items to give a possibility to read more posts from selected categories.</li>
<li>Force display sticky posts – applies to post type only, select if you want to include a sticky post to slides.</li>
<li>Number of items in a row.</li>
<li>Number of rows.</li>
<li>Number of all items – total number of slides.</li>
<li>Show or hide post titles.</li>
<li>Make post title clickable.</li>
<li>Choose header tag for titles.</li>
<li>Creation date – show/hide post creation date, the date format is taken from global settings, display date above or below the title.</li>
<li>Show or hide the author’s name.</li>
<li>Show or hide post taxonomy items (a category name)</li>
<li>Readmore – show/hide read more link.</li>
<li>Order direction (ascending, descending).</li>
<li>Ordering type (date, title, most commented).</li>
<li>Navigation (bullets, none).</li>
<li>Description limit – enter number of chars for each slide description.</li>
<li>Image floating (left, right, none).</li>
<li>Show/hide thumbnail.</li>
<li>Thumbnail clickable – link the image to the full post</li>
<li>Interval in milliseconds for a sliding.</li>
<li>Enable or disable pause on hover.</li>
<li>Image size from WordPress settings (Settings > Media). You can choose: thumbnail, medium, large</li>
<li>Grid spacing – space between items.</li>
<li>Drag and drop to change order of the post elements.</li>
</ol>


WPCT Drag & Drop Recent Posts

You can display image slides with title, image, author name, date, description, and read more linked to posts from the selected category.

Mrinal Roy

<p>Latest Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from your site with various options like excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to change ordering of posts.</li>
<li>Option to show post thumbnail & set dimension by width & height.</li>
<li>Set how many posts to show.</li>
<li>Option to show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.</li>
<li>Option to show the post date.</li>
<li>Option to show the comment count.</li>
<li>Multiple widgets.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at<br />
<a href="https://github.com/mkrdip/latest-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> (If possible with a pull request).</p>


Latest Posts Widget

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature

WPCT Drag & Drop Recent Posts vs Latest Posts Widget