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 [recent] below are the attributes you can use with this shortcode: * Authors: [recent author=”username or multiple usernames separated by comma”] * Category: [recent category=”category name or names separated by comma”] * Tag: [recent tag=”tag name or names separated by comma”] * Post Type: [recent post_type=”post type name”] * Show Posts: [recent show=”number of posts to show”] * Show Excerpt: [recent excerpt=”true (default is false)”] * Show Thumbnail: [recent thumbnail=”true (default is false)”] To call it from within a theme template, you have to wrap it in this PHP function: To use this plugin in sidebar by using widget: Go to themes > appearance > widgets Drag Recent Posts Widget by CC to the sidebar where you want to display. That’s it.
