Title: HeroPress Recent Essay Widget
Author: Topher
Published: <strong>August 25, 2015</strong>
Last modified: August 27, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# HeroPress Recent Essay Widget

 By [Topher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/heropress-recent-essays-widget.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/heropress-recent-essays-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/heropress-recent-essays-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/heropress-recent-essays-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/heropress-recent-essays-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/heropress-recent-essays-widget/)

## Description

Creates a widget showing the most recent essay data from HeroPress. Optionally renders
featured image, title, contributor, and date.

### Usage

Use the normal widget admin UI to drag the widget into your sidebar.

The data fetcher caches the data for 12 hours.

## Screenshots

[⌊Admin area for the widget area.⌉⌊Admin area for the widget area.⌉[

Admin area for the widget area.

[⌊2 most recent essaays showing in a widget⌉⌊2 most recent essaays showing in a 
widget⌉[

2 most recent essaays showing in a widget

## Installation

 1. Upload the `/heropress-recent-essay-widget/` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Visit Appearance -> Widgets in the admin and place the widget in a sidebar

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Topher ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/)

[Translate “HeroPress Recent Essay Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/heropress-recent-essays-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/heropress-recent-essays-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/heropress-recent-essays-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/heropress-recent-essays-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/heropress-recent-essays-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

#### 1.1

 * Remove crazy cache limiter

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tag
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/heropress-recent-essays-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Topher ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/)

## Support

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