Title: Latest News Widget
Author: Taylor Lovett
Published: <strong>January 15, 2011</strong>
Last modified: January 30, 2011

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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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# Latest News Widget

 By [Taylor Lovett](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tlovett1/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/latest-news-widget.1.0.1.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/latest-news-widget/)

## Description

Show latest posts from specific categories in your sidebar. Simple, easy-to-use,
and customizble.

Special Features:

 * Choose posts from up to three categories to display posts from
 * Optionally show post titles
 * Optionally show post bylines
 * A dashboard widget that displays WordPress blogging tips, SEO tricks, exclusive
   tutorials, SEO strategies, and more!
 * Show either the content, the excerpt, or the content with a limited number of
   characters
 * Limit the number of posts shown. Offset the posts that are shown
 * **Widget includes a style manager!**
 * Easily change the font size, font family, title font size, etc from within the
   widget.
 * This widget is reusable
 * Very easy to setup. **Requires NO technical knowledge** to install
 * Can be translated to multiple languages
 * Outputs **clean, validated code**
 * Free Support via email

Restrictions/Requirements:

 * Works with WordPress 2.8.1+, WPMU, and BuddyPress (WordPress 3.0+ is highly recommended)
 * PHP 4 or 5
 * PHP register_globals and safe_mode should be set to “Off” (this is done in your
   php.ini file)
 * Your theme must call wp_head() and wp_footer()

### Configuring and Using the Plugin

Instructions for this plugin can be found at http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-
plugins

### Support

For questions, feature requests, and support concerning the Latest News Widget plugin,
please visit:
 http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins

## Installation

 1. Upload to /wp-content/plugins
 2. Activate the plugin from your WordPress Admin Panel
 3. Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the widget in to a sidebar
 4. Done!

You can find more information about this plugin at http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-
plugins

## FAQ

None yet!. For questions, feature requests, and support concerning the Latest News
Widget plugin, please visit:
 http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Latest News Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Taylor Lovett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tlovett1/)

[Translate “Latest News Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/latest-news-widget)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.0.1

 * latest-news-widget.php – Plugin admin links fixed

#### 1.0

 * latest-news-widget.php – Dashboard widget added
 * css/latest-news-widget-dashboard.css – Added
 * widget/class.dashboard.php – Added
 * class.utils.php – New methods added

#### 0.2

 * Small bug fixes

#### 0.1

 * Plugin Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 * Tags
 * [Featured Posts Widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-posts-widget/)
   [latest posts widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/latest-posts-widget/)
   [new posts widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/new-posts-widget/)[posts-widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts-widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-news-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Taylor Lovett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tlovett1/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/latest-news-widget/)

## Donate

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