Title: Recent Photos
Author: Hemant Nandrajog (instruite)
Published: <strong>March 3, 2010</strong>
Last modified: March 29, 2010

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Recent Photos

 By [Hemant Nandrajog (instruite)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/instruite/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/recent-photos.0.0.2.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/recent-photos/)

## Description

Recent Photos Plugin provides with a widget to display n numbers of recent photos
from the media library in the sidebar.
 The display can be customized through custom
css or integrated in main style sheet file. Also provides an option to use Thickbox(
along with the patch code necessary for running thickbox)

Demosites:

[Operation with default theme](http://playground.instruite.com/)

[Customized Version](http://www.instruite.com/)

Author info:

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#### Configuration Options

 * Title: Title for the widget will be displayed as per your theme
 * Number of the photos: Number of photos that will be displayed in the sidebar
 * Randomize: Check to display photos in random order
 * Browse Photo Link: Full link to your photos/gallery page
    Leave blank if you 
   don’t want to show the link.
 * Use Thickbox: Enables/Disables the use of thickbox for this widget
 * WordPress Path: Applicable only if Thickbox is enabled
    This option is necessary
   to provide the patch for thickbox to correctly display thickbox related images(
   loadinganimation and close). If your wordpress installation is in a subdirectory
   provide the path for the same followed by a forward slash Eg. wordpress/ When
   the WP installation is in ‘wordpress’ subdirectory
 * Use Custom CSS: Enable/Disables the use of Custom CSS
 * Custom CSS: For styling this plugin requires following CSS ids and classes to
   be defined
    #recent_photos_envelope{margin:0 0 30px 0;} .recent_photo_image a{
   float:left;display:inline;margin:0 16px 15px 0;border:1px dashed #888;padding:
   5px} .recent_photo_image a:hover {border:1px dashed #000} The above css code 
   is default css provided with the plugin

## Installation

#### Requirements

 * PHP: 4.4.x or 5.x.x
 * mySQL: 4.0, 4.1 or 5.x
 * WordPress: 2.9 or newer

#### Basic Installation

 * Plugin folder in the WordPress plugins folder must be `recent-photos`
 * Upload folder `recent-photos` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 * Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 * Go to WP Admin > Appereance > Widgets and put the ‘Recent Photos’ widget in your
   sidebar
 * Configure the options as per your requirements and wordpress installation

#### Upgrade Instructions

 * Just Click ‘Upgrade Plugin Automatically’ within the WordPress Plugin Admin Area
 * Go to WP Admin > Appereance > Widgets and put the ‘Recent Photos’ widget in your
   sidebar
 * Configure the options as per your requirements and wordpress installation (New
   option for Randomize should be there)

## FAQ

  How to integrate css code in your default style sheet?

Copy the default css code into your style sheet

  recent_photos_envelope{margin:0 0 20px 0;}

.recent_photo_image a {float:left;display:inline;margin:0 16px 15px 0;border:1px
dashed #888;padding:5px}
 .recent_photo_image a:hover {border:1px dashed #000}

  browsephotos{margin: 0 25px 10px 12px; float:right;}

Enable Use Custom CSS option in the widget admin

Make sure Custom CSS code textarea is blank (Should contain no spaces also)

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Recent Photos” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Hemant Nandrajog (instruite) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/instruite/)

[Translate “Recent Photos” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/recent-photos)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 0.0.2

 * Added option to randomize photos

#### 0.0.1

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.0.2**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-photos/)
 * Tags
 * [photos](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/photos/)[sidebar](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
   [thickbox](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/thickbox/)[widget](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/recent-photos/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Hemant Nandrajog (instruite) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/instruite/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/recent-photos/)

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