WordPress Plugin : Customizable Post Listings
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.
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Great find, Madhur! I have been looking for one like this.
I like the new theme you have here..
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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!
Thanks for the great tips.
Great plugin. Thank you sharing..(: