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

1. Download the plugin and unzip it into your plugins directory
2. Activate the plugin from the Wordpress plugin page
3. You can modify the options according to your likes in the plugin editor
4. 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.

When you visit many forums ,you will notice that some of the topics are “sticky” ,that means they are always displayed on top of other posts . All the items posted are displayed after the sticky posts . But in a blog the posts are displayed in reverse chronological order , i.e. the older posts are pushed down the order when new ones are added .”Sticky” posts are necessary in blogs when you wish to make some important announcement or post something which you want to be displayed for sometime . Read the rest of this entry »