WPMU Recent Posts Widget
First of all, let me preface this posting by saying there are a lot of versions of a “sitewide” plugin to show recent posts. There are however, no widgetized versions that I could find, so I made a simple one.
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I haven’t installed the widget yet but I wonder how can I get the list of the last postings on the entire page. What I mean is to have it exactly like http://bitfreedom.com website has it on the main page. Reason for my question is normally a widget can only be placed on a side bar but not in the actual entire page.
I hope my question make sense.
Thanks
This plugin includes a function that is used to display the results. If you wanted to make a page that just contained the results, you would do something like create your own page template (a php file in your theme directory), call the function, and use the template for whichever special page you want.
The call would look something like this:
if (function_exists(wpmu_recent_posts_mu)) wpmu_recent_posts_mu(5, 30, true, ”, ”);
Angelo, I love the plugin and would love to use it on my site, but I need to see how I could code in for it to pull an excerpt of the article as well as the blog that it comes from as well as the avatar that the author uses, like the one that comes with BuddyPress does. Is that something that is possible?
I chose a lightweight version of various “recent posts” plugins to make a widget. It doesn’t have the code to display post text. I’m surprised you and I are the only ones who want this as a widget.