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Recent Posts Range Widget

Posted by James - 11/11/07 at 01:11:51 am

‘Recent Posts Range’ is an expansion of the functionality offered by the built-in Wordpress Widget, ‘Recent Posts’ and allows you to specifiy a starting index for your ‘Recent Posts’ display. Why would we need this? Well, when you have a few post summaries on your homepage, it seems futile to be displaying the same links again in the sidebar, wouldn’t you agree?

With this widget, you can display some more of your older posts, without cluttering things up too much. Heck, you could even use it with the standard ‘Recent Posts’ widget to get ‘Older posts’.

Download Recent Posts Range now!

Customizable widget Features:

• Wordpress 2.3 Compatable!
• Name
• Start index
• Number of posts
• Optional (on/off) Post date display
• Optional (on/off) Post exerpt display

Doesn’t feature (i.e. I can’t figure it out) :

• Post category / tag exclusions

Download Recent Posts Range now!

It’s funny where a caffeine-fuelled night will ends up.

2 Comments »

1. 

   Oh, and if anyone can figure out the whole category / tag exclusions bit - I’d love to know.

   Comment by James — 11 November 2007 #

2. 

   Some websites that drew code (and inspiration - but mostly code) are..

   http://labitacora.net/index.php?p=319 - An original ‘Show Range Posts’ plugin - but not widgeted or WordPress 2.3 Compatable

   http://blue-anvil.com/archives/create-a-wordpress-recent-posts-widget - A tutorial on creating widgets for Wordpress (alas, also not WordPress 2.3 Compatable)

   and finally, the WordPress code changelog - (to make my widget 2.3 compatable) - http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5592

   Comment by James — 11 November 2007 #

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