Title: Latest Posts Widget
Author: Mrinal Roy
Published: <strong>July 14, 2014</strong>
Last modified: December 16, 2015

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used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Latest Posts Widget

 By [Mrinal Roy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mkrdip/)

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

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

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

## Description

Latest Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display
the most recent posts from your site with various options like excerpt, featured
image, date by sorting & ordering feature.

#### Features

 * Option to change ordering of posts.
 * Option to show post thumbnail & set dimension by width & height.
 * Set how many posts to show.
 * Option to show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
 * Option to show the post date.
 * Option to show the comment count.
 * Multiple widgets.

#### Contribute

While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue
at
 [Github](https://github.com/mkrdip/latest-posts-widget) (If possible with a 
pull request).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The widget configuration dialog.
 * [[
 * Front end of the widget showing full features of the plugin in a default WordPress
   Theme.
 * [[
 * Latest Posts list showing post title only.

## Installation

#### Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers
itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install 
of Latest Posts Widget,

 1. log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add 
    New.
 2. In the search field type “Latest Posts Widget” and click Search Plugins.
 3. Once you’ve found plugin, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
 4. Then, go to plugins page of WordPress admin activate the plugin.
 5. Now, goto the Widgets page of the Appearance section and configure the Latest Posts
    widget.

#### Manual installation

 1. Download the plugin.
 2. Upload it to the plugins folder of your blog.
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. Now, goto the Widgets page of the Appearance section and configure the Latest Posts
    widget.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Mrinal Roy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mkrdip/)

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

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

1.1

 * Fixed Thumbnail Issue for few servers
 * Added Added PHP5 Constructor
 * Compatible with WordPress 4.3

1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-posts-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [latest posts widget](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/latest-posts-widget/)
   [posts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[posts-widget](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts-widget/)
   [recent posts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recent-posts/)[widget](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/latest-posts-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Mrinal Roy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mkrdip/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://mkrdip.me/donate)