Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget

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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”]