Recent Posts

Recent Posts displays a list of your blog’s newest posts. The output can be customised in many ways.

This plugin requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library: download it now.

Version History

• 2.6.2.0

• new {imagealt} output tag — rather like {imagesrc}

• {excerpt} can now trim to whole sentences

• content filter can now take parameter string

• widget can now take parameter string

• output can be appended to posts & feeds

• 2.6.1.0

• the current post can be marked manually

• widgets now honour the option to show no output if list is empty

• 2.6.0.1

• bug fix: installation code was failing on some systems

• 2.6.0.0

• version bump to indicate compatibility with WP 2.6

• fix to really include attachments

• new parameter for {imagesrc} to append a suffix to the image name, e.g. to get the thumbnail for attachments

• 2.5.0.11

• new option to include attachments

• {php} tag now accepts nested tags

• new output tag {authorurl} — permalink to archive of author’s posts

• 2.5.0.10

• fix for page selection in old versions of WP

• made omit current post try harder to find current post ID

• 2.5.0.9

• new option to order by date of last edit rather than date of creation

• new option to match the current post’s author

• extended options for snippet and excerpt output tags

• 2.5.0.7

• new option to show by status, i.e., published/private/draft/future

• {categorynames} and {categorylinks} apply ‘single_cat_name’ filter

• fixes bug in WP pre-2.2 causing installation to fail

• 2.5.0

• {image} has new post, link, and default parameters

• new {imagesrc} tag

• fix to empty category bug

• excluded posts bug fix

• fix for intermittent bug with ‘omit current post’ option

• 2.5b26

• reverted thumbnail serving (speed)

• fix current post after extra query

• 2.5b25

• option to sort output, group templates

• removed ‘trim_before’ option added more logical ‘divider’

• {date:raw}, {commentdate:raw}, etc.

• fix for {image} resizing when and not

• {image} now serves real thumbnails

• 2.5b24

• fix for recursive replacement by content filter

• fix to {gravatar} to allow for ‘identicon’ etc.

• fix to {commenter} to allow trimming

• fix a warning in safe mode

• 2.5b23

• new option to filter on custom fields

• nested braces in {if}; condition now taggable

• improved bug report feature

• better way to omit user comments

• 2.5b22

• show_pages option can now show only pages

• fixes for tag bugs

• 2.5b19

• fix for content replacement filter

• 2.5b18

• fix output filter bug

• add conditional tag {if:condition:yes:no}

• 2.5b16

• fix for {php}

• 2.5b15

• fix bugs, add ‘included posts’ setting

• 2.5b14

• fix file-encoding, installation error, etc.

• 2.5b11

• some widget fixes

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5b9

• clarifying installation instructions

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