Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget

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

• Forum support
• Rate/Review the plugin

Developed by rajros