Recent Posts Embed plugin for WordPress

 

Author: Sebastien Berthiau
Tags: recent posts list latest post links
Requires at least: 2.5
Tested up to: 2.8.6
Stable tag: 1.4.0

A tiny plugin to embed a list of recent posts in a page or a post…

== Description ==

Recent Posts Embed is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to easily place list of recent posts anywhere in your site.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the `recent-posts-embed` directory and its content to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Place the tag `[recent posts]` in your post, and it will be replaced by a list of recent posts. You can also limit the result to the categories you need by specifying their IDs in the tag: `[recent posts = 1,7,15]` or exclude some categories like this: `[recent posts = -2,-4]`.

== Version History ==

* version 1.4.0 = multiple occurence, excerpt, leave a comment link.
* version 1.3 = Including/excluding categories, internationalization, bug fix
* Version 1.2 = added number of comments
* Version 1.1 = added option page to set the number of posts to display, and the date format.
* Version 1.0 = first version.

== Demo ==

Demo here: www.atelier-anna.fr

== Download ==

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-embed/

 

Please give me your feedback !

 

Posted: May 27th, 2009
at 4:17pm by Sebastien


Categories: WordPress

Comments: 25 comments



 

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  1. Really love your plugin! Exactly what I was looking for.

    I have a question though:

    Is there a way to get the excerpts from the recent posts rather than the permalink with the post header above it? So the hierarchy would be:

    - Post entry
    - Post excerpt
    - Read more link

    I want to do this because I want to use a page as my main index although I want to list at least 1 excerpt using this plugin. Any help or input would be great. =D

    Liza

    7 Jun 09 at 09:00

     

  2. Hi Liza.
    Please try this version. I’ve added the feature you requested.
    If you think this is ok, I will add html customization and length of the excerpt in the option page for the future version.

    Sebastien

    9 Jun 09 at 10:31

     

  3. I like the way that this plugin works, but I wonder if it is possible to use it more than one time on a page. I have a page that has a table with descriptions of each category and I’d like to list the most recent post in each category on that page. Every time I try to use [recent posts =catID] more than once it shows that instead of the post. Could you help me out?

    Amy Gould

    12 Jun 09 at 23:58

     

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    13 Jun 09 at 04:43

     

  5. great little plugin. One feature I’d like to implement is for the text of the “No comments : ” field to be linkable to the post. For example, I have “No comments : (Leave a Comment)” to encourage comments, but that Leave a Comment doesn’t link and is confusing to users.

    Thanks.

    hawks5999

    16 Jun 09 at 21:10

     

  6. Great plugin - just what I was looking for. I tested the version you made for Liza and I liked it. It would be a nice feature for a future version. Like Amy Gould, though, I would like to have more than one instance of Recent Posts (different categories) on my static home page. Any chance that ability will appear in an upcoming version?
    Thanks.

    Pat

    5 Aug 09 at 06:57

     

  7. Great Job!
    All other plugins I found with similiar features are really to difficult to use.
    And I prefer the custom version you made for Lisa. You should include these features in your next “official” version.

    dhar

    6 Aug 09 at 23:18

     

  8. Hi

    great plugin, better with the mod’s of excerpt
    I wonder if you can include author and thumbnail, or perhaps a image as background of excerpt.

    The thumbnail could be a image from custom field?

    Thanks, and sorry my english

    RC

    10 Aug 09 at 19:29

     

  9. I did a new little mod, but don’t know enough php.
    The plugin takes the custom field “articleimg” to find its thumbnail, and then show in beside recent posts.
    It need a little of css that I include in the style of the theme.

    You can see here for example
    http://parroquiaviva.org/secciones/

    RC

    11 Aug 09 at 20:16

     

  10. Hey, I’d love to use this plugin, but I’m getting an error when I try to activate it. It says:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare recent_posts() (previously declared in /wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/recent-posts.php:32) in /wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-embed/recent-posts-embed.php on line 57

    Any help?

    TK

    5 Oct 09 at 06:27

     

  11. Hello!
    One feature i would like to have for this plugin is thumbnails, along with permalink and excerpts. Is that possible to achieve?
    Thank you!

    Arthur Mustafa

    17 Oct 09 at 09:35

     

  12. Hi, I really dig the plugin! I was wondering whether it is possible to add something “boolean”-eske to it: e.g. I only want to embed posts from the category X AND Y?

    tom

    23 Oct 09 at 12:07

     

  13. I would like to organize the embedded posts by separate categories.

    CAT 1
    post 1
    post 2
    post 3

    CAT 2
    post 1
    post 2
    post 3

    But the plugin only process the first recent posts directive not the second. Is there a work around?

    Thanks!
    PS. Great plugin BTW.

    Alan

    29 Oct 09 at 23:04

     

  14. Hi,

    the plugin’s settings page isn’t available with WP 2.8.5. How come?
    There’s no link displayed in the plugins list.

    Urbanty

    19 Nov 09 at 18:18

     

  15. Hi everyone,

    Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been very busy.
    Version 1.4 is out. This version includes:

    - Multiple occurrence as requested by Pat, Amy Gould and Alan
    - Excerpt as requested by Liza, Pat, RC, dhar and Arthur Mustafa
    - Leave a Comment link requested by hawks5999

    I will work on thumbnails on the next version.
    Please give me your feedback.

    Sebastien

    22 Nov 09 at 12:50

     

  16. “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare recent_posts() (previously declared in /wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/recent-posts.php:32) in /wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-embed/recent-posts-embed.php on line 57″

    Thank you for your report TK. This bug is fixed in version 1.4.0.

    Sebastien

    22 Nov 09 at 12:54

     

  17. Great plugin i think would it be possible to use this code so that the recent posts within wordpress are shown outside ie i would like to add a section to my home page (NOT wordpress) which visitors read a click into the article with WP

    Oliver

    25 Nov 09 at 11:50

     

  18. I’m sorry Oliver, but you can’t use this code outside wordpress as it uses built-in functions.

    Sebastien

    26 Nov 09 at 16:50

     

  19. hi sebastien,

    excellent plug in, would i be able to use it to lists recent posts just below the slideshow on the home page of my WP site?

    http://www.gardenfork.tv

    not sure what coding to type into the index.php file.

    thanks, eric.

    eric rochow

    27 Nov 09 at 22:46

     

  20. hi Sébastien,

    Can we use your plugin as a widget in the sidebar or it’s only restricted to a page or a post?

    Merci

    Michel Julien

    28 Nov 09 at 19:52

     

  21. @Michel Julien:
    Hi, sorry but the tag has to be in a page or a post.

    Sebastien

    28 Nov 09 at 21:08

     

  22. @eric rochow:
    Hi Eric. You don’t have to modify your index.php. Just edit your home page into WP admin, and place the tag [recent posts] after your slideshow.

    Sebastien

    28 Nov 09 at 21:18

     

  23. Hi sebastien, I love this plugin but I need it in my template. Is there a way to add it into my template? I want to use it in the footer of my website. If not, can it be modified to do so?

    Mike McEwan

    2 Dec 09 at 06:30

     

  24. Figured it out. Use the Executable PHP Widget and put this code in the following inside php tags:

    $text = recent_posts_embed(’[recent posts]‘);
    echo $text;

    I hope that helps anyone else that needs this in a widget.

    Mike McEwan

    2 Dec 09 at 08:39

     

  25. Hi Mike,
    Thank you for this great solution !
    I think I will add a widget version soon, with a setting page.

    Sebastien

    2 Dec 09 at 11:45

     


 

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