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Author: lgrandicelli

Special Recent Posts (SRP) is a very powerful plugin/widget for WordPress which displays your recent posts with thumbnails. You can drag multiple widget instances and configure each one with different settings. You can also use custom PHP code to insert the widget in any part of your theme.

Special Recent Posts is fully configurable and lets you administrate almost everything about your blog’s recent posts.

Special features:

• Thumbnails automatic selection and generation
• Thumbnails adaptive resize with GD libraries support
• Thumbnails Rotation
• Thumbnails custom sizes option for every widget instance
• Posts/Pages display option
• Posts/Pages inclusion/exclusion
• Custom Post Types filtering
• Post Status Filtering
• Title and content trimming
• Custom Image StringBreak
• Random mode visualization
• Posts date visualization
• Category filtering
• Current post filtering
• Configurable custom CSS
• Multiple widgets configurations
• Specific PHP function call for theme customization
• Shortcodes Support

Plugin Homepage
http://www.lucagrandicelli.com/special-recent-posts-plugin-for-wordpress/

Plugin Forum
http://www.lucagrandicelli.com/forum/

Credits Thumbnail generation is handled by the brilliant PHP Thumb Class http://phpthumb.gxdlabs.com/