Title: Recent Posts Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Recent Posts Widget

 *  [justin105](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin105/)
 * (@justin105)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/)
 * Hello I was wondering how do you edit the recent posts widget so in the sidebar
   it displays some meta data I want eg the date of the post.
 * Justin

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 *  [accuwebhosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/accuwebhosting/)
 * (@accuwebhosting)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1639988)
 * Hi justin,
 * You can edit recent post’s widgets.
 * For that please go to your Admin panel.
 * Select **Appearance/Widgets** menu item where, you can post your required Widgets
   on to the Leftbar, Rightbar, or Mainmenu depends upon your theme.
 * This can be done by simply **Drag** the required Widgets from the **Available
   Widgets** and **Drop** them on to the Sidebar.
 * Then Update your post and reload it.
 * But do remember that if your theme does not support any Sidebar then you cannot
   place any Widgets on it. For that, you have to change your theme.
 *  Thread Starter [justin105](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin105/)
 * (@justin105)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640114)
 * Thats is using the widget which i know but I want it to display some certaint
   extra meta data. The fdate of the post i want in the sidebar and some other info.
 * Justin
 *  [Reuben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greuben/)
 * (@greuben)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640119)
 * If you want to code it yourself then this might help.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts#Latest_posts_ordered_by_title](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts#Latest_posts_ordered_by_title)
 *  Thread Starter [justin105](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin105/)
 * (@justin105)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640132)
 * Thank you Reuben that was better. Do you know if I edit the actual widget (Recent
   Posts), & Where do I put the code if i was going to use the following code:
 * <?php
    $postslist = get_posts(‘numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=title’); foreach(
   $postslist as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?> <div> <?php the_date(); ?>
 *  <?php the_title(); ?>
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </div> <?php endforeach; ?>
 *  [Reuben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greuben/)
 * (@greuben)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640142)
 * Don’t use recent posts widget. Add that code to your sidebar or wherever you 
   want to display recent posts.
 *  Thread Starter [justin105](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin105/)
 * (@justin105)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640155)
 * ok thanks
 * justin
 *  Thread Starter [justin105](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin105/)
 * (@justin105)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640157)
 * Reuben
 * It worked almost the way I wanted it to. But i want to be able to restrcit how
   much of the actual post it shos on the sidebar… then I want a link to say click
   here to read more and goes to the corrsesponding post.
 * is this possible?
 * Thanks
 * Justin
 *  Thread Starter [justin105](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin105/)
 * (@justin105)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640158)
 * Also the Post name for <?php the_title(); ?> always comes up with the title as
   Home and post date doesnt come up for the second post.
 *  Thread Starter [justin105](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin105/)
 * (@justin105)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640160)
 * I am having a problem where on my front page / homepage i have the code below
   in a php widget and it displays the title as Home for all the posts and the date
   isnt changing and doesnt display on every post.
 * The Code I am using is the following:
 * >  <?php
   >  $postslist = get_posts(‘numberposts=5&order=ASC&orderby=title’); foreach(
   > $postslist as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?> <div class=”post_title”> <?
   > php the_title(); ?> </div> <div class=”post_date”> <?php the_date(); ?> </div
   > > <?php endforeach; ?>
 * The CSS Is the following
 * >  .post_title {
   >  font-size:16px; color:#333; padding-top:5px; font-weight:bold;
   > border-bottom:1px solid #999; margin-bottom:10px; }
   > .post_title a {
   >  text-decoration:none; color:#333; } .post_date { color:#FFF;
   > background-color:#333333; font-weight:bold; font-size:12px; width:110px; text-
   > align:center; height:20px; padding-top:5px; margin-bottom:5px; }

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-4/#post-1640160)
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