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Recent Posts: Widget and Shortcode

Description

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.

Screenshots

  • Visual aspect
  • Settings
  • Widget

Installation

In order to activate the plugin, just go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin and select the .zip file of this plugin.

Then click on activate and the plugin has been installed correctly.

INSTALL FROM WITHIN WORDPRESS

  1. Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’;
  2. Search for ‘Recent_Posts – Widget and Shortcode’;

FAQ

What is the list of recent posts?

WordPress contains all the posts you publish, and by using this plugin, you can show the latest entries in a pre-formatted list to your users.

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Contributors & Developers

“Recent Posts: Widget and Shortcode” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0

Release Date: November 15th, 2019