Recent Posts with Excerpts

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   The widget manager.

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   What is shown, given the settings shown in screenshot #1, using the default theme.

To style your excerpts, add a declaration for .recent_with_excerpt li blockquote to your theme’s stylesheet.

To add a link to the bottom of the widget’s output, below the list, use the recent_posts_with_excerpts_end action. Example:

add_action( 'recent_posts_with_excerpts_end', 'my_recent_posts_more' );
function my_recent_posts_more() {
    echo '<a class="readmore" href="/news/archive">More</a>';
}

To add something above the list, use the recent_posts_with_excerpts_begin action instead.

Installation Instructions

1. Upload the plugin directory to /wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to Appearance → Widgets to add widgets to your sidebar in widget-ready themes.

2.6.1

• The ‘recent_posts_with_excerpts_query’ filter now accepts a second parameter, $instance, to give developers access to the widget’s settings.

2.6

• Constructor update.

2.5.5

• New offset option, props Carlos Santana.
• New option to ignore sticky posts, props Francesco Mele.

2.5.3

• Added POT file.

2.5.2

• Added ‘recent_posts_with_excerpts_query’ filter to allow modifications to the widget’s query.

2.5.1

• Changed the_time() to get_the_time(), which prevents the date from appearing outside its intended heading tag.

2.5

• Cleaned up empty classes.
• Added actions to the top (recent_posts_with_excerpts_begin) and bottom (recent_posts_with_excerpts_end) of the widget output, for developers to customize. See the FAQ tab for an example.
• Improved the thumbnail size dropdown.

2.4

• Added support for displaying post thumbnails with the excerpts.
• Localized strings for translators.

2.3.2

• Fixed a bug in which limiting the posts to a category and/or tag would override the setting for the number of posts to display.

2.3.1

• Fixing bugs and restoring “more” option broken in 2.3.

2.3

• Added option to display the date.

2.2

• Fixed HTML validation error. (Thanks, Cris!)

2.1

• Added tag limit option
• All widget input fields are now localized (September 11, 2009)

2.0

• Added widget title option
• had to jump version numbers (did the earlier ones wrong, apparently) (August 3, 2009)

1.12

• bugfix — needed to reset the Loop after the widget runs (August 2, 2009)

1.11

• bugfix — ‘more’ text did not change according to settings (July 26, 2009)

1.1

• Added category option (July 26, 2009)

1.0

• First release (July 24, 2009)