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Category Posts Widget

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts in a single category.

Download Version 3.3

Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category.

Features:

  • [NEW] Option to change ordering of posts.
  • Support for displaying thumbnail images via WP 2.9's new post thumbnail feature.
  • Set how many posts to show.
  • Set which category the posts should come form.
  • Option to show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
  • Option to show the post date.
  • Option to show the comment count.
  • Option to make the widget title link to the category page.
  • Multiple widgets.
Author: James Lao

Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.1.4
Last Updated: 2011-3-24 Downloads: 186,677

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