A plugin which enables you to get latest posts by authors, categories and tags as well, also you can enable featured images and excerpt, this plugin can be use for custom post types. This plugin is different because it enables user to get latest posts from different medium like tags, authors, categories and custom post types.
| Author: | Ahsan Rehman (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.8 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.3 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 04-06-2015 |
| Last updated: | 24-08-2015
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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| Plugin URI: | http://ahsanrehman.com |
| Total downloads: | 1 336 |
| Active installs: | 10+ |
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This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of post (or custom post type) links (with title, featured image and exceprt) to a specific author (or multiple authors), category (or multiple categories) and tag (or multiple tags). It can be called either with a shortcode or from within a theme file.
To call it with a shortcode, use [latest] below are the attributes you can use with this shortcode:
* Authors:
[latest author="username or multiple usernames separated by comma"]
* Category:
[latest category="category name or names separated by comma"]
* Tag:
[latest tag="tag name or names separated by comma"]
* Post Type:
[latest post_type="post type name"]
* Show Posts:
[latest show="number of posts to show"]
* Show Excerpt:
[latest excerpt="true (default is false)"]
* Show Thumbnail:
[latest thumbnail="true (default is false)"]To call it from within a theme template, you have to wrap it in this PHP function: <?php echo do_shortcode('your shortcode goes here'); ?>
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