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Category Posts Widget

Author: James Lao

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:

  • 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.

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  1. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Widget Title Filter Request
  2. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] thumbnail issues
  3. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Doesn't hide automatically when there are no posts in the specific c
  4. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] How to manually use this plug...not the widget?
  5. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] <ul> tag I can't get rid of
  6. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Thumbnail Creates Indentation and Title Not Showing
  7. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Use in templates
  8. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Don't show child category posts
  9. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Excert Indented too much
  10. [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Possible to add second widget with second category?