Title: Smart Recent Post
Author: Sandeep Sharma
Published: <strong>August 1, 2012</strong>
Last modified: November 5, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
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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# Smart Recent Post

 By [Sandeep Sharma](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sandeep816/)

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

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

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

## Description

This plugin contains a widget for showing off the recent posts from your wordpress
blog.

With this plugin you can choose number of posts to display, display featured image,
dimensions of featured image, posts order, select the categories also. We will adding
more options in the next version.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Widget Options
 * [[
 * Viewing the Widget

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

 1. Upload `smart-recent-post` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Head over the the widgets settings page and enable `Smart Recent Post`

## FAQ

  How to use it?

Enable the plugin and place the widget in the sidebar (where you wants)

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-10405/)󠁿

 [AntonLM](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antonlm/) November 11, 2019

Fine! Good settings! I can easily customize my design! 6 stars!

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-recent-post/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Sandeep Sharma ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sandeep816/)
 *   [ Dheeraj Dhawan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhawan/)

[Translate “Smart Recent Post” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/smart-recent-post)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Lets you specify a title, sets number of posts, featured image, categories

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.24**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-recent-post/)
 * Tags
 * [post](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)[recent](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recent/)
   [recent post](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recent-post/)[recent posts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recent-posts/)
   [thumbnails](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/thumbnails/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/smart-recent-post/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-recent-post/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-recent-post/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Sandeep Sharma ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sandeep816/)
 *   [ Dheeraj Dhawan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhawan/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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

## Donate

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