Special recent posts free edition shortcodes

As is, this code creates a shortcode that gets a customizable set of posts from the WordPress database, and displays them on your post or page. As simple as "one, two three", as they say. No modifications are required, this universal "recent posts" shortcode can be added to any WordPress theme, or alternately the code can be added to your site via simple plugin. You can customize the attributes however is desired.

The shortcode also accepts a couple of other attributes, order and orderby :. So now the list will include 10 posts from any category, ordered randomly and displayed in ascending order.

Jeff Starr is a professional web developer and book author with over 15 years of experience. Jeff works with WordPress every day, designing themes , developing plugins , and securing sites. View all from Jeff Starr. Here you will find lots of awesome free WordPress resources, themes, and techniques to improve your site. Check us out for high-quality tutorials, tricks, tips and much more. Digging Into WordPress. Blog Book Themes Sign In. Allows you to display a list of the most recent posts with thumbnail, excerpt and post date, also you can display it from all or specific or multiple taxonomy, post type and much more!

Did you installed any Post or Post Type Order? Please try to deactivate it and try again the ordering. First, please uncheck the Use Default Style option then place the css code below in the Custom CSS box, then you can customize it to fit your needs. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Thank you to the translators for their contributions. This release comes with several fixes and enhancements to support the new Widget Block in WordPress 5. Current thumbnail resize system will be deprecated and replaced with WordPress built-in thumbnail resize function.

Translate into your language. View support forum. Donate to this plugin. Skip to content WordPress. Description This plugin will enable a custom, flexible and super advanced recent posts , you can display it via shortcode or widget. Features Include Taxonomy support! Post status option. Available filter for dev.

Shortcode feature. Better image cropping. Allow you to set title url. Display by date, comment count or random. Thanks for sharing. Glad our article was helpful. Does anyone have this same problem as me? The Blog page is automatically generated by your theme so you will not have the option to edit it directly unless you have a theme specific setting to edit it.

Is there a way to customize the way post titles are displayed? Great article, When I use the Recent post widget and set it to only display a category my sticky posts do not work.

Have you encountered this before or know of a solution? I have a doubt, if I have my wordpress integrated with Magento, can I use magento within the short code to put the last entries in my magento house? The short code to display recent posts with thumbnails does not work… only shows the posts title not the thumbnails… how to fix this.???

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th post. What code can I add to add a little space after each post preview? I was struggling with adding recent posts to a page. Your guide saved me a lot of time. You are welcome. Please help me with this How to display recently post in a post on phone version? Reply please… Thanks. If I am using 2 database. Great writeup. I want to display the recent post on a page. Hi, Thank you for this post. Really helped a lot.

But then I have a problem. When I click on one of the recent posts — it directed me to the static page and not the post itself.

Kindly help me resolved this issue. Thank you. Try updating your permalink structure. Simply visit Settings » Permalinks and then click on the save changes button without changing anything.

Can you advise please? Thank you so much! So I was able to get the 5 latest post to show in the right sidebar but when I click on a post to read it I get the following error on Home Page Oops something went wrong. Hi — thanks million for this manual method, very grateful. Please can you tell me how to add a thumbnail image to it? Hi Val, Hope your doing well, I was just scrolling through this article and saw your name and thought straight away I know that name! Funny thing is I was just thinking about building another one a few days ago!

Crazy how things happen sometimes! I remember I really enjoyed reading about your life and the move to Sth Africa, your cures for tooth aces etc. Hello, I used the same shortcut in my site but it not show my recent posts at all, what is the probelm?

You can fetch them using RSS feed. Please see, how to fetch feeds in WordPress. On my recent posts on the sidebar, when I click a specific post it brings me to the latest post and then displays everything.

How do I get it so that when I click a specific post it only shows that post? Great plugin, thank you! Is it possible to have the author listed, instead of the post name? The version I downloaded does not include the ability to display thumbnails…cant see the option anywhere.

I am using version 0. Hi, my issue is to display the latest post full content in a static home page… and i was thinking that the last snippet was what i needed… but unfortunately it does not works properly. In effects it shows title but not the content. Hi I am new on wordpress, I want to show Client Testimonial using post….

How should I do it..? Here is an easier way. Install Display Posts Shortcode plugin. Create a blank page and add the shortcode as described in plugins documentation. Publish the page. Redit the static page and add the slider just before the display posts shortcode. Hope this helps you. Please see our guide on How to customize WordPress excerpts no coding required.

Hi, I am wanting to add a slider to the top of my homepage, but it will only allow me to do so if I use a static page.