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Must Read Posts

Retrieves posts and pages with a certain custom field (e.g. to permanently show your most recommended posts in a widget) and displays them in a list.

Download Version 2.0.2

  1. Upload must-read-posts.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate "Must Read Posts" through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
  3. What to do now depends on how up to date your theme is (see below)
  4. Mark all the posts/pages you want to show in the widget with the custom field must-read and the value true (see screenshots).

Modern theme with widget support

The plugin is a widget. If your theme supports widgets, and you have installed the widget plugin, adding the plugin to the sidebar is easy: Go to the appearance menu and drag and drop the widget into the sidebar. Don't forget to save your new widget structure using the save button below.

Old school theme without widget support

This will require some programming in the sidebar.php file. There are many resources on the web about how to do this.

Requires: 2.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2010-4-20
Downloads: 6,604

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