A customizable latest news widget.
| Author: | Taylor Lovett (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.8.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.0.5 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 15-01-2011 |
| Last updated: | 30-01-2011
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins |
| Total downloads: | 23 333 |
| Active installs: | 200+ |
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Show latest posts from specific categories in your sidebar. Simple, easy-to-use, and customizble.
Special Features:
- Choose posts from up to three categories to display posts from
- Optionally show post titles
- Optionally show post bylines
- A dashboard widget that displays WordPress blogging tips, SEO tricks, exclusive tutorials, SEO strategies, and more!
- Show either the content, the excerpt, or the content with a limited number of characters
- Limit the number of posts shown. Offset the posts that are shown
- Widget includes a style manager!
- Easily change the font size, font family, title font size, etc from within the widget.
- This widget is reusable
- Very easy to setup. Requires NO technical knowledge to install
- Can be translated to multiple languages
- Outputs clean, validated code
- Free Support via email
Restrictions/Requirements:
- Works with WordPress 2.8.1+, WPMU, and BuddyPress (WordPress 3.0+ is highly recommended)
- PHP 4 or 5
- PHP register_globals and safe_mode should be set to “Off” (this is done in your php.ini file)
- Your theme must call wp_head() and wp_footer()
Configuring and Using the Plugin
Instructions for this plugin can be found at http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins
Support
For questions, feature requests, and support concerning the Latest News Widget plugin, please visit:
http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins
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