Displays recent posts on category archive page, belonging to the respective category.
| Author: | The Medios, illuminatus7 (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.1.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.7.41 |
| Plugin version: | 1.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 28-09-2012 |
| Last updated: | 25-01-2014
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
| Plugin URI: | http://themedios.com/ |
| Total downloads: | 7 557 |
| Active installs: | 70+ |
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An easy to use Recent Posts Plugin. This plugin will allow you to display the recent posts in a sidebar only on a category page.
New Features Added
- Specify the number of posts to display in the sidebar
- Show/ hide excerpt
- Specify the number of words to be displayed in the excerpt
- Option to specify custom Read More text
- The Read More text is also a link to the posts permalink
Screenshots
Widget appearing in a sidebar on a category archive page
Widget settings option in the Dashboard
Why cannot I see the widget in my Sidebar on the Home Page?
The widget will be displayed only on the ‘Category Archive Page’
Can I style the my recent posts widget
Yes. You can style it as required. The recent posts list are wrapped in an unordered HTML list having CSS class “.tm-recent”. The excerpt is wrapped in a div tag with the CSS class “.tm-excerpt”. The complete widget itself is wrapped in the CSS class “.tm-cat-recent-post”
How can I style the Read More link
The Read More link is wrapped in the CSS class “.tm-read-more-text”. You can style this class n your stylesheet.
ChangeLog
0.1
0.2
- Added option to select the number of posts in widget settings
- Added default number of posts to 5
- Added option to select whether excert will be displayed or not
- Changed Domain to Gettext Calls to ‘themedios’
- Fixed control options’ width parameter to an integer instead of the previous string
- Changed old CSS class names
1.0
- Checked for 3.5 compatability. Looks good 🙂
- Added option to specify Read More text. Returns ellipses […] if Read More text is empty
- Hyperlink to the posts permalink for Read More text.
- Added CSS class to style Read More text
- Updated screenshot for Widget Settings
