Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails

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The plugin is available in English, German (Deutsch), Persian (فارسی), Arabic (العرب�? ة), Polish (Polski) Russian (русский), Turkish (Türkçe) and Japanese (日本語). Lightweight, simple and effective No huge widget with hundreds of options. This plugin is based on the well-known WordPress default widget ‘Recent Posts’ and extended to display more informations about the posts like e.g. thumbnails, excerpts and assigned categories. The thumbnails will be built from the featured image of a post or of the first image in the post content. If there is neither a featured image nor a content image then you can define a default thumbnail. You can set the width and heigth of the thumbnails in the list. The thumbnails appear left-aligned to the post titles in left-to-right languages. In right-to-left languages they appear right-aligned. What users said “This plugin is INCREDIBLE” in the reviews by lucio7 on August 25, 2017 Number 16 in 20 WordPress Plugins Every Blogger Needs to Increase Engagement by Nocturnal Thrive on August 9, 2017 “Excellent (after trying a few)!” in the reviews by giorgissimo on January 6, 2017 “A first class plugin” in the support forum by lakenjr on August 29, 2016 “…definitely the best Recent Posts plugin I’ve found…” in the support forum by devintshawn on April 9, 2016 “…you just have to try it out” in WordPress Tools That Use Visuals to Grab Visitors’ Attention by Gayane Mar on February 25, 2016 “Easy and lightweight” in 8 Useful WordPress Widgets for Your Site by Lucy Barret on January 21, 2016 Number 5 in 12 Useful WordPress Sidebar Widgets to Engage Visitors by Pawan Kumar on December 8, 2015 Number 1 in Los 10 widgets de WordPress más prácticos by Jorge López on November 13, 2015 How to show recent posts in WordPress blog by Robin on June 28, 2015 Number 5 in Best List of Free Recent Posts Widgets for WordPress by jerry on November 29, 2014 Number 1 in 25 Most Useful WordPress Widgets for Your Site by Editorial Staff on September 18, 2014 Options you can set Title of the widget Number of listed posts Open post links in new windows Random order of posts Hide current post in list Keep sticky posts on top of the list Hide post title Maximum length of post title Show post author Show post categories Show post date Show post excerpt Show number of comments Excerpt length Signs after excerpt Ignore post excerpt field as excerpt source (builds excerpts automatically from the post content) Print slugs of post categories in class attribute of LI elements Show posts of selected categories (or of all categories) Show post thumbnail (featured image) Registered thumbnail dimensions Thumbnail width in px Thumbnail height in px Keep aspect ratio of thumbnails Try to take the first post image as thumbnail Only use the first post image as thumbnail Use default thumbnail if no thumbnail is available Default thumbnail URL Much more options available If you want to build your special posts lists with additional options for layout, informations about each post and embedding via shortcode take a look at the plugin Ultimate Post List Pro. Useful hints for developers: Supported Hooks The plugin considers the output of actions hooked on: widget_title rpwwt_widget_posts_args rpwwt_excerpt_more rpwwt_excerpt_length rpwwt_list_cats Useful hints for developers: Available CSS Selectors To design the list and its items you can use these CSS selectors: The elements which contain the posts lists: .rpwwt-widget The lists which contain the list items: .rpwwt-widget ul All list items in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li All list items of sticky posts in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li.rpwwt-sticky All links in the lists; every link contains the image and the post title: .rpwwt-widget ul li a All images in the lists (use that to set the margins around images): .rpwwt-widget ul li a img All post titles in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li a span.rpwwt-post-title All post author in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-author All post categories in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-categories All post dates in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-date All post excerpts in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-excerpt All numbers of comments in the lists: .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-comments-number Languages The user interface is available in English German (Deutsch) Persian (فارسی), kindly drawn up by Sajjad Panahi Arabic (العرب�? ة), kindly drawn up by Shadi AlZard Polish (Polski), kindly drawn up by Marcin Mikolajczyk Russian (ру́сский), kindly drawn up by dmitriynn Turkish (Türkçe), kindly drawn up by Mehmet HAKAN Japanese (日本語), kindly drawn up by Kazuyuki Kumai Further translations are welcome. If you want to give in your translation please leave a notice in the plugin’s support forum.