Kailey (trepmal)

Check out version 1.7, it’s still in development, but you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-random-quotes/download/

It has a basic permissions editor, let me know if it gives you any problems.

I’ve actually just released a new plugin based on this one that has better options. AMRP’s widget options are getting a bit unruly…

Easier to specify what elements (title, excerpt, image…) should be used and where they should go.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mini-loops/

Open up <a href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-most-recent-posts-mod/trunk/adv-most-recent.php?rev=380061">adv-most-recent.php</a> and make the following changes:

(the line numbers I reference are all from the unchanged file)

Replace line 385, looks like
$posts = get_posts($query); //get posts
With this:

$posts = get_posts($query); //get posts
$total = count($posts); //using count instead of $shownum in case there are fewer posts
$cols = 5;
$rows = ceil($total/$cols);

$cols should reflect the number of columns you actually want (sorry, I haven’t added a nice input field to the widget for this)

Replace line 392, looks like
foreach ($posts as $post) {
With this:

$c = 0; //li counter
$x = 1; //ul counter
foreach ($posts as $post) {

Replace line 458, looks like
}// end foreach()
With this:

++$c;
if ($c%$rows == 0 && $c != $total) {
	++$x;
	$postlist .= '</ul><ul class="advanced-recent-posts col-'.$x.' '. $cat_slug .'">';
}
}// end foreach()

And lastly, change lines 465-467 which look like

echo '<ul class="advanced-recent-posts">' . $postlist . '</ul>';
  else
return '<ul class="advanced-recent-posts">' . $postlist . '</ul>';

To this:

echo '<ul class="advanced-recent-posts col-1">' . $postlist . '</ul>';
else
  return '<ul class="advanced-recent-posts col-1">' . $postlist . '</ul>';