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Plugin Description

The “Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget” helps users to easily display latest posts in a page or in sidebar by just using simple shortcode [recentposts-sc]
By default it displays “latest posts” or “recent posts” which can be changed to display “random posts”, display by ‘title’ etc using ‘orderby’.

Options and Features Includes

All Parameters/Shortcodes can be seen in FAQ:
* FAQ

  • Featured Image
  • Auto generates and adds featured image using first image of the post if no featured image is found
  • Custom excerpt length
  • Limit number of posts
  • Posts from specific category
  • Posts from multiple categories (comma separated)
  • Posts from specific author
  • Post type option
  • Order/Display by date, name etc.
  • Display post date.
  • Display specific posts using post IDS (comma separated)
  • Display/filter posts by tag
  • Display/filter posts by meta key and meta values
  • Custom “Read more” label option.
  • Display default/custom image size instead of featured image (like thumbnail, medium etc)

How to Use

  • Basic: [recentposts-sc] (by default 3 latest posts)
  • For sidebar also use [recentposts-sc] in text widgets (refer screenshots as well for further help)

Advanced Parameters:

  • numberofposts (Number of posts)
    Limit/Specify the number of posts you want to display
    Default: 3
    Example: [recentposts-sc numberofposts=”6″]

  • post_type (Post Type)
    Specify which post type you want to use. For example posts or pages
    Default type: post
    Example: [recentposts-sc post_type=”page”]

  • get_cat_name (Category Name)
    If you want to display category name in list of posts
    Default: False
    Example: [recentposts-sc get_cat_name=”true”]

  • excerptlength (Custom Excerpt Length)
    Define custom excerpt length
    Example: [recentposts-sc excerptlength=”30″]

  • enable_excerpt (Show/hide Excerpt display)
    Sometimes you may not want to display excerpt and only like to keep title and image. To turn off/disable excerpts use enable_excerpt=”false” (default is true)
    Example: [recentposts-sc enable_excerpt=”false”]

  • image_size (Display default/custom image size instead of featured image)
    Select image size like thumbnail, medium etc (by default featured image is displayed)
    use image_size (default is false)
    Example: [recentposts-sc image_size=”thumbnail”] or [recentposts-sc image_size=”medium”]
    You can also use any custom image size if present in your website.

  • category (Posts from specific Category/categories)
    Filter posts from single category or multiple categories
    Example single category: [recentposts-sc category=”lesson”]
    Example multiple categories: [recentposts-sc category=”lesson,lesson2,lesson3″]

  • author (Posts from specific author)
    Filter posts from specific author
    Example: [recentposts-sc author=”admin”]

More Parameters/Shortcodes can be seen in FAQ:
* FAQ.

Support

Developed by rajros

Screenshots

  1. This displays list of posts on a page

    This displays list of posts on a page

  2. This displays list of posts in sidebar/widgets

    This displays list of posts in sidebar/widgets

  3. Basic shortcode to display posts

    Basic shortcode to display posts

  4. Shortcodes with multiple options/filter like category, date, excerpt length etc

    Shortcodes with multiple options/filter like category, date, excerpt length etc

  5. For displaying in sidebar

    For displaying in sidebar


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