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.
Download WPMU Recent Posts Widget
Latest version 1.1
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.
Can i ask something?
Why the plugin is using the wp_ call @ mysql and not the $table_prefix from wp-config.php? I have for example a different database name, not wp_ …
and also! Will it support WordPress 3.0?
Ok, thanks for pointing that out. I actually haven’t looked into WP 3.0 yet so I don’t know. I will see about using $table_prefix instead.
Hmmm, I can’t figure out how to login to wpmudev anymore… so I really don’t know how I’m going to update the file there. Maybe I’ll just start updating it here. Seems they’ve gone super commercial now.
Ok, just updated this one and posted here. I fixed the table prefix problem.
Loving this plugin – also don’t know why more aren’t looking for it.
Question: I’m a bit of a programming novice (know just enough to be dangerous). I’m using this to display the most recent posts from across 3-5 blogs in the multi-site setup.
Each blog caters to a very distinct audience, and rather than blend the posts together I’d like to separate the entries under a simple sub-head. For example:
Recent posts from our blogs:
Blog A:
> entry
Blog B:
> entry
> entry
Blog C:
> entry
With limited programming skills, is that possible?
Thanks for providing this plugin!!!
It shouldn’t be too hard–it just means going in and pulling more fields from the database and printing them. Also, depending on how you want it to work and how many blogs you have, you could use the RSS widget that’s built into WordPress (or maybe take a look at it and build something similar to just put up a short RSS feed from each blog).