Recent Posts: Widget and Shortcode

SHOW A LIST OF LATEST POSTS

You can show a list of latest posts in your blog with a few customizations in order to reduce bounce rate and get more pageviews.

SEO-friendly and lightweight code

This plugin contains lightweight code to be very fast to load, SEO-friendly, and it is developed to have full compatibility with WordPress 3.1 (2011) up to WordPress 5+ (2019), from PHP 5.6 up to PHP 7.3.

FEATURES:

• Show a simple list of the latest blogposts
• You can choose the number of posts and the style for the list.
• Lightweight code to quickly load the page and keep a good pagespeed score
• No cookies are set by this plugin to visitors
• Compatible with all resolutions: desktop, tablet and smartphones

HOW TO USE:

In order to display a list of latest posts using this plugin in your website, you have 2 easy options to have maximum flexibility.

OPTION 1: Use a shortcode

In order to display the output in your specific posts or pages use this code:

[Recent_Posts title="custom-title"] 

or

[Recent_Posts] 

In order to display the output in your WordPress template use this code:
<?php echo do_shortcode( '[Recent_Posts title="custom-title"]' ); ?>

OPTION 2: Use a widget
Go to Appearance > Widgets and add Recent_Posts widget where you want to show it.