Wordpress Plugin : Customizable Post Listings
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 8, 2007 in Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins
The best thing about Wordpress is that its functionality can be increased by the use of various plugins that are available all over the internet. I was looking for a plugin that can display Recent Entries from a specific category in the sidebar , that when i came across it.
Customizable Post Listings is a plugin by Scott Reilly that can display Recent Posts , Recent commented posts , Random posts etc in a customizable manner . The best thing is that the post searches can be narrowed by using Category , Author and stuff.
Installation and Use
- Download the plugin and unzip it into your plugins directory
- Activate the plugin from the Wordpress plugin page
- You can modify the options according to your likes in the plugin editor
- You can use the following codes to dispaly the relevent thing
To display Recent Postsuse <?php c2c_get_recent_posts(3); ?>where 3 is the number of posts to be displayed
To display Recently commneted posts use <?php c2c_get_recently_commented(3); ?>
There are a lot of functions which you can use and customize according to your needs.
Why can’t we do the same without any plugins? Just edit sidebar php files and add what all posts you need. Little cumbersome but you really have full control. Only thing is it might need some little more work.
Offtopic:
End the post line: “Enjoyed the article Subscribe to RSS Feed” looks odd, dont you think it would be good if it’s “Enjoyed the article? Subscribe to RSS Feed”. Plus I was not able to differentiate the link in that line.
Ashwin | Aug 8, 2007 | Reply
This is surely helpful for me. Once I had installed Top post plugin and my blog stopped working. BTW does this support widgets?
Nirmal | Aug 8, 2007 | Reply
WoW great plugin. Will be surely using it. Thx for sharing.
Shankar Ganesh | Aug 8, 2007 | Reply
Nice find.. This seems to be good for adding my recent comments section. thanks!
Benedict Herold | Aug 8, 2007 | Reply
I agree with Benedict. I’ll also use this plugin. Thanks for sharing.
Haris | Aug 8, 2007 | Reply
@Ashwin
Thanks for the suggestion buddy .I thought of doing the same as you mentioned but it was very time consuming . You would have to update again and again if you wanted to add something latest . I am going to change my theme this week . Hopefully you will find it better .
@Nirmal
I dont think it does
Madhur Kapoor | Aug 8, 2007 | Reply
Interesting plugin. Changing theme? Can’t wait to see it.
Brown Baron | Aug 8, 2007 | Reply
Interesting find, actually i am working on a theme for a news portal with stuff like this.
@Ashwin
You dont have to manually do all these things, you can use query_posts function to achive this, more info on this http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops
ram | Aug 9, 2007 | Reply
@ram
Thanks for informing me about this .
Madhur Kapoor | Aug 10, 2007 | Reply
I am using seperate plugins for Recent Comments, Recent Posts and Random Posts. Will try this plugin.
Lovedeep Wadhwa | Aug 10, 2007 | Reply
Great find, Madhur! I have been looking for one like this.
I like the new theme you have here..
K-IntheHouse | Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Don’t know if anyone has noticed, but if you try to list for specific categories in 2.3.1 it doesn’t work. That is because several DB fields have been removed. I have been looking around for easy alternatives, but haven’t found any yet.
The call to C2c_get_recent_posts will fail if specific categories are inserted……
I’m in a panic because several things broke on the upgrade to 2.3.1 and I would be interested to see what everyone else is doing!
Dozer | Dec 24, 2007 | Reply