Mark New Posts

Highlight unread posts on your blog.

Key features:

• Works right out of the box
• Uses cookies, no authorization required
• 4 different types of markers for highlighting posts (a “new” text label,
  an orange circle, etc.)
• Customizable background color for unread post titles

There’s a setting to determine when a post should be considered read. You can pick one of the following:

• after it was opened
• after it was displayed in the post list
• after opening any page of the blog

Functions available for theme developers:

• mnp_is_new_post($post) – check if a post is unread
• mnp_new_posts_count($query) – get unread posts count

1. 

   Marker type: "New" text (Twenty Twenty-One)

2. 

   Marker type: "New" text (Twenty Twenty)

3. 

   Marker type: Circle (old WP theme)

7.6

• Fixed security issue: possibility for non-admin users to update plugin’s settings. Thanks to Aiden for reporting.

7.5.2

• Fixed possible bug in the “Use JS” mode with posts not getting marked at all

7.5.1

• Fixed: “Allow outside the post list” option makes markup appear in admin post list

7.5.0

• “Allow outside the post list” option
• Cosmetic: fixed some of the texts on the settings page

7.4.0

• Fixed a conflict with Buddypress. I hope now we can be buddies again. Thanks a lot to teeboy4real and r-a-y!
• Improved performance
• If you’ve read this far AND if you like this plugin, why not give it a nice review? It would be lovely!

7.3.2

• Fixed a conflict with WPForms plugin. A message “Notice: is_404 was called incorrectly” appeared when trying to open the Settings page of WPForms.

7.3.1

• The “New” marker type now has a better support for the old built-in WordPress themes, because they’re awesome.

7.3.0

• Post title background colour validation
• Marker type “Custom image” removed for security reasons

7.2.0

• An option to change the background colour for unread post titles
• Open your blog with ?mnp-test=1 in the page title to test the plugin (all posts will be shown as unread)
• mnp-title-wrapper class replaced with mnp-unread

7.1.0

• “Disable for custom posts” option

7.0.1

• Added a new colour for the “New” text to fit in the Twenty-Twenty WordPress theme. Now it’s the default marker type.
• Changed buttons placement in the settings screen. Yeah, I know… Sorry for that.
• Fixed flickering pieces of code on blog pages that appear when the “Check markup” option is active

7.0.0

• Back after 4 years of inactivity!
• Temporary new logo
• Fixed a CSS bug for Image and Flag marker types, where the marker would float away to the left of the screen
• Fixed warnings in Debug mode

6.9.28

• New translation: Russian
• New option: mark posts as read after opening any page of the blog
• New option: posts stay marked as new only for a certain amount of days after publishing
• New option: mark all existing posts as new to new visitors
• If the two options above are activated, then when someone visits your blog even for the first time, he will see all the most recent posts highlighted

6.9.26

• Fixed notices in debug mode

6.9.22

• mnp_new_posts_count() speed up

6.5.24

• Fixed minor bug: 2nd argument might not be passed to the_title filter in some themes

6.5.12

• Fixed blank screen when not running on Apache

6.5.10

• Unicode flag marker replaced with an image (because of Unicode issues in Firefox)
  icon by Vectors Market from www.flaticon.com, CC BY 3.0 license
• Code refactoring and optimization
• Better way of markup checking
• Settings page redesign

6.5.6

• Detect prefetching

6.5.5

• New marker placement: before and after post title
• Incorrect markup check is disabled by default to use less memory

6.5.4

• Fixed: incorrect markup when the_title() is being called from an attribute value

6.3.18

• “Mark posts as read only after opening” option now works for post excerpts too

5.6.4

• New marker type: flag (unicode character)
• New option: the marker can be placed before or after the title of a post
• New marker type: custom image
• Fixed bug: after opening a post’s preview it’s getting marked as read
• Fixed bug: sometimes the marker falls on another line
• Fixed: marker gets wrapped on new line in post’s navigation block

5.5.12

• i18n
• Added “Mark post as read only after opening” option
• New marker type: image. “Label New Blue” icon by Jack Cai, CC BY-ND 3.0 license

5.5.8

• This plugin is based upon KB New Posts 0.1 by Adam R. Brown
• New functions for using in WordPress themes: mnp_is_new_post and mnp_new_posts_count
• 2 new ways of highlighting unread posts