Recent Posts Widget Extended

Recent Posts Widget Extended

Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.
Rating:
4.7
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Active Installations:
90000+
Last Updated:
Jul 31, 2023
WordPress Version:
5.8 or higher
Tested up to:
6.1.7

Customizable Recent Posts

Display and customize recent posts with thumbnails, excerpts, and post dates.

Flexible Display Options

Show recent posts by date, comment count, or randomly. Customize thumbnail size and alignment, excerpt length, and more.

Support Multiple Taxonomies

Display recent posts from all, specific, or multiple categories or tags.

Developer-Friendly

Use shortcodes, custom CSS, and available filters for advanced customization.

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.

Recent posts with shortcode, great!

By jahher on February 16, 2023

Needed a recent post plugin that works with shortcode and can be used on page/post/block etc. This one does it. Awesome. Keep up the good work. Thank you!

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.
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