Title: Advanced Recent Posts Widget
Author: wpfundi
Published: <strong>October 6, 2011</strong>
Last modified: April 16, 2012

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# Advanced Recent Posts Widget

 By [wpfundi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/safiweb/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/advanced-recent-posts-widget.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/#developers)

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## Description

Advanced Recent Posts Widget is a light widget advanced version of the WordPress
Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from
multiple categories or from custom post types.

Features:

 * Display post thumbnails, with customizable size and automatic resizing using 
   timthumb script.
 * Display post excerpt, date, comment count, and more.
 * Provides option to:
    ***show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should
   be. ***show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be. ***show the 
   post date. ***show read more link ***show the comment count. ***override the 
   post order to order by; date, title, random, comment count etc. ***select multiple
   categories ***select custom post type
 * Multiple widgets.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The widget configuration dialog.

## Installation

 1. Download the plugin.
 2. Upload it to the plugins folder of your blog.
 3. Goto the Plugins section of the WordPress admin and activate the plugin.
 4. Goto the Widget tab of the Presentation section and configure the widget.
 5. Changing the CSS – If you need to configure the CSS style of Advanced Recent Posts
    Widget, you can copy the ‘advanced-recent-posts-widget.css’ file from the plugin
    directory to your theme’s directory and make your modifications there. This way,
    you won’t lose your changes when you update the plugin.

## FAQ

See documentation at http://www.safiweb.co.ke/advanced-recent-posts-widget

  Installation Instructions

 1. Download the plugin.
 2. Upload it to the plugins folder of your blog.
 3. Goto the Plugins section of the WordPress admin and activate the plugin.
 4. Goto the Widget tab of the Presentation section and configure the widget.
 5. Changing the CSS – If you need to configure the CSS style of Advanced Recent Posts
    Widget, you can copy the ‘advanced-recent-posts-widget.css’ file from the plugin
    directory to your theme’s directory and make your modifications there. This way,
    you won’t lose your changes when you update the plugin.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Advanced Recent Posts Widget” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ wpfundi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/safiweb/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

Updated timthumb.php
 Updated advanced-recent-posts-widget.php html output

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1a**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **1,000+**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.3 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ wpfundi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/safiweb/)

## Support

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