Title: Custom Recent Posts Widget Plus
Author: javierjara
Published: <strong>May 3, 2015</strong>
Last modified: May 3, 2015

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# Custom Recent Posts Widget Plus

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/custom-recent-posts-widget-plus.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-recent-posts-widget-plus/)

## Description

This plugin adds a simple widget that you can customize easily it allows you to 
display a number of recent blog posts from a specific category. You have the options
to choose a title, category, number of posts and whether or not to show the post
date or to show the image featured (Post Thumbnails).The posts will be ordered by
date just like the default Recent Posts widget included with WordPress.
 check the
category you want to show.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The widget UI
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 * The widget UI

## Installation

 1. Upload the ‘custom-recent-posts-widget-plus’ directory to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
    directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Navigate to the ‘Widgets’ page found under the ‘Appearance’ menu item
 4. Drag ‘Recent Posts Widget Plus’ to the target widget area and choose your options

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Custom Recent Posts Widget Plus” is open source software. The following people 
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-recent-posts-widget-plus/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/custom-recent-posts-widget-plus/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/custom-recent-posts-widget-plus/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-recent-posts-widget-plus/)
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[category](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)
   [recent posts](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recent-posts/)[sidebar](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
   [widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-recent-posts-widget-plus/advanced/)

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## Contributors

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

## Support

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