Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget free WordPress plugin

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