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Recent Posts Widget Extended

by Theme Junkie

Version: 2.0.2

Description

Plugin description

This plugin will enable a custom, flexible and advanced recent posts, you can display it via shortcode or widget. Allows you to display a list of the most recent posts with thumbnail, excerpt and post date, also you can display it from all or specific or multiple taxonomy, post type and much more!

Support this project

If you are enjoying this plugin. I would appreciate a cup of coffee to help me keep coding and supporting the project! Support & donate.

Features Include

Display by date, comment count or random.
Enable thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment.
Enable excerpt, with customizable length.
Display from all, specific or multiple category or tag.
Enable post date.
Display modification date.
Display comment count.
Post type support.
Taxonomy support.
Post status.
Custom HTML or text before and/or after recent posts.
Shortcode feature.
Crop image on the fly.
Enable Read more.
Custom CSS.
Multiple widgets.
Available filter for developer.

Links

Translate to your language.
Contribute or submit issues on Github.

Installation

Through Dashboard

Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins -> Add New
Type recent posts widget extended in the search box and click on search button.
Find Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin.
Then click on Install Now after that activate the plugin.
Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
Find Recent Posts Extended widget.

Installing Via FTP

Download the plugin to your hardisk.
Unzip.
Upload the recent-posts-widget-extended folder into your plugins directory.
Log in to your WordPress admin panel and click the Plugins menu.
Then activate the plugin.
Go to the widgets page Appearance -> Widgets.
Find Recent Posts Extended widget.

Screenshots

Classic widget
Block widget
Shortcode
Siteorigin page builder

Faq

Shortcode Explanation

Explanation of shortcode options:

Basic shortcode

[rpwe]

Display 10 recent posts

[rpwe limit="10"]

Display 5 random posts

[rpwe limit="5" orderby="rand"]

Display 10 recent posts without thumbnail

[rpwe limit="10" thumb="false"]

Open post link in new tab

[rpwe link_target="true"]

Disable default style

[rpwe styles_default="false"]

Shortcode Arguments

Here are the full default shortcode arguments

limit="5"
offset=""
order="DESC"
orderby="date"
post_type="post"
cat=""
tag=""
taxonomy=""
post_type="post"
post_status="publish"
ignore_sticky="1"
taxonomy=""

post_title="true"
link_target="false"
excerpt="false"
length="10"
thumb="true"
thumb_height="45"
thumb_width="45"
thumb_default="https://via.placeholder.com/45x45/f0f0f0/ccc"
thumb_align="rpwe-alignleft"
date="true"
readmore="false"
readmore_text="Read More &raquo;"

styles_default="true"
css_id=""
css_class=""
before=""
after=""

How to filter the post query?

You can use rpwe_default_query_arguments to filter it. Example:

add_filter( 'rpwe_default_query_arguments', 'your_custom_function' );
function your_custom_function( $args ) {
    $args['posts_per_page'] = 10; // Changing the number of posts to show.
    return $args;
}

Ordering not working!

Did you installed any Post or Post Type Order? Please try to deactivate it and try again the ordering. (related question)

No image options

Your theme needs to support Post Thumbnail, please go to https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails to read more info and how to activate it in your theme.

How to add custom style?

First, please uncheck the Use Default Style option then place the css code below on the Additional CSS panel on Customizer, then you can customize it to fit your needs

.rpwe-block ul {
    list-style: none !important;
    margin-left: 0 !important;
    padding-left: 0 !important;
}
.rpwe-block li {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    list-style-type: none;
}
.rpwe-block a {
    display: inline !important;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.rpwe-block h3 {
    background: none !important;
    clear: none;
    margin-bottom: 0 !important;
    margin-top: 0 !important;
    font-weight: 400;
    font-size: 12px !important;
    line-height: 1.5em;
}
.rpwe-thumb {
    border: 1px solid #eee !important;
    box-shadow: none !important;
    margin: 2px 10px 2px 0;
    padding: 3px !important;
}
.rpwe-summary {
    font-size: 12px;
}
.rpwe-time {
    color: #bbb;
    font-size: 11px;
}
.rpwe-alignleft {
    display: inline;
    float: left;
}
.rpwe-alignright {
    display: inline;
    float: right;
}
.rpwe-aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}
.rpwe-clearfix:before,.rpwe-clearfix:after {
    content: "";
    display: table !important;
}
.rpwe-clearfix:after {
    clear: both;
}
.rpwe-clearfix {
    zoom: 1;
}

Why so many !important in the css code?

I know it’s not good but I have a good reason, the !important is to make sure the built-in style compatible with all themes. But if you don’t like it, you can turn of the Use Default Styles and remove all custom css code in the Custom CSS box then create your own style.

Available filters

Default arguments

rpwe_default_args

Post excerpt

rpwe_excerpt

Post markup

rpwe_markup

Post query arguments

rpwe_default_query_arguments

Reviews

Arguments don't all work

By marxmann on January 30, 2023

doesn't display specific categories or other arguments as stated

Wonderful plugin

By tfrancisdesigncom on November 11, 2022

Works fantastically and comes right out of the box with nice thumbnail sizing and borders. Thanks you.

Great and simple!

By marcin1333 on November 4, 2022

Easy, simple and useful! 5 starz!!

Where are the shortcodes?

By webstpro on October 2, 2022

It says that one can use shortcode but I can't find them anywhere. Only widgets.

Excellent! Excellent!

By patrick_here on December 9, 2021

This is an excellent Plugin! It is well designed, does what it claims to do, and doesn't waste your time. I tried other plugins before finding this one. This one is the REAL THING!

Super Useful

By Pea Lutz (misfist) on April 17, 2021

This is a very useful plugin that works really well and has lots of filters to customize as needed. Thanks!!

Nice plugin, but

By Denis Creative on July 27, 2020

Nice plugin, but you need to change the markup. This is very incorrect markup when there is a heading (<h3>) inside the link (<a>). use <span> inside <li> or some other tags. Due to erroneous markup, I cannot use this plugin on many sites/

Ignore this review - I could not delete it

By hrsms on March 23, 2020

I had complained that several widget setting had no effect. I had "display thumbnail" unchecked, yet thumbnails were displayed I had "display date" unchecked, yet the dates were displayed I've noticed the same problem with an similar widget I tried in place of this one. There could be an incompatibility with my theme or another plugin. Changed from 1 to 4 stars since I can no longer assume the problem is with this plugin alone, and anything less than 4 stars would be unfair.

10 puntos

By ernestogn on March 20, 2020

Funciona perfecto hace lo que promete.

Changelog

2.0.2
Release Date: Oct 05, 2022

Bug fixes:

Prevent double slash when loading the php file.
Use display: block for the list, inline-block causing issue for some websites.

Enhancements:

Minor issue with the auto generate thumbnail function.
Fix translation issue. Thanks Alex Lion.
CSS tweak.

2.0.1
Release Date: Sept 28, 2022

Bug fixes:

Compatibility issue with Siteorigin Page Builder.

Enhancements:

Re-enable custom CSS setting.
Full support Siteorigin Page Builder.
Adds display: inline-block; to the default style, to make sure each list align properly. Thank you outrospective!

2.0 – Major Changes
Release Date: Sept 22, 2022

This release comes major changes to the codebase, several fixes and enhancements. The reason was to follow the latest WordPress coding standard, more secure. Classic widget and block widget is now supported!

Breaking Changes:

CSS ID shortcode attribute for the container was cssID or cssid, please use css_id instead.
CSS ID widget, please re-added your ID to the input field.
before and after shortcode attribute move to inside the recent posts container.
Widget custom style location change. If your style is not loaded, please re-save the widget.
Custom CSS no longer editable, please move your custom CSS to the Additional CSS panel on Customizer.

Enhancements:

Classic & blocks widget supported!
Support lazy loading for the thumbnail.
No more inline CSS, by default rpwe-frontend.css will be loaded if shortcode or widget present.
No more extract(). ref
New show hide the post title.

Bug fixes:

Default image wasn’t working correctly.
true or false shortcode value.

Version:Version: 2.0.2
Active installs:Active installs: 90K
Last updated:Last updated: 31-07-2023
Requires:Requires: 5.8
Tested:Tested: 6.1.7

Average rating:4.7 out of 5 stars.

Number of ratings: 133 ratings
Number of ratings: 12 ratings
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Number of ratings: 4 ratings

Plugin description

Support this project

Features Include

Links

Recent posts with shortcode, great!

Arguments don't all work

Wonderful plugin

Great and simple!

Where are the shortcodes?

Excellent! Excellent!

Super Useful

Nice plugin, but

Ignore this review - I could not delete it

10 puntos