I’ve been fooling around with WordPress a lot lately, trying to get GeekLad.com configured just how I like it. Most recently I added a Recent Posts widget. The default Recent Posts widget displays links to all of your most recent posts. If you are already displaying your most recent posts on the front page, the default Recent Posts widget can be rather repetitively redundant. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find something out there that could quickly resolve the issue, so I resorted to writing a hack myself.
I directly edited the widgets.php file and added some extra code in the templates files as well, and I was finally able to achieve the desired result. I wanted to share with the world what I had done, but what I had done wasn’t very practical. If you were to ever change your theme or update to a new version of WordPress, the hack would need to be performed once again. I decided I would take a stab at putting together a plugin to do it.
After perusing the WordPress Codex and reading a nice tutorial on creating WordPress widgets that Lonewolf put together, I finally managed to build a working plugin. The options are exactly the same as the default Recent Posts Widget. The only difference is that my widget will exclude any posts that appear within the main content of the current page. Please let me know if you find any bugs with my plugin. Being my first WordPress plugin, there may be some bugs that I wasn’t able to find.
Once you’ve downloaded, installed, and activated the plugin, go to the Design >> Widgets in the WordPress dashboard and add the Alternate Recent Posts widget and configure it as you please. Below are a couple of screenshots that show what my page looked like before and after using my plugin:
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hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
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didn't work.. still showed the same posts., running wordpress 2.8. thanks for the code, though., this is a typical problem with blog recent posts.
That's odd… I haven't updated to 2.8 yet, so I'll have to see what's
going on there. Thanks for letting me know about the problem.
Hey I just want to say this is a sweet plugin – I've always hated the redundancy of the recent posts lists on my sites. Just started using this plugin today and now I wonder why WordPress doesn't do this outta the box, it makes so much sense. Thanks!
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Hey just a heads up, I ran into a small issue with the code – I described it and posted a fix here: http://webguy303.com/2009/06/alternate-recent-p…
Thanks for the fix. I didn't realize I was leaving open tags. I'll update
the plugin to include your fix.
Is it possible to display this plug-in in the footer instead of the sidebar??
Not at this time. It is really meant to replace the existing recent posts
widget and nothing more.
I have find a quick and easy to install and customize Recent Post Widget with thumbnails. You can install it in minute with hassle-free complicated manual code installation.
You may look at this link for more information : http://www.engadgeteer.com/2009/07/recent-posts…
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i was looking for this 🙂 thank you
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I had a few problems with this with 2.8 WP but after the update it's running great. I think the plugin is a great visual enhancement to pages. Me likes!
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I love this plugin – but since updating to WP3.1 it now shows the same posts as the 'normal' recent posts widget. Will you be making a fix?
Thank you.
It's been a while since I've done any WordPress development, so probably not
any time soon. Something must have changed in the API that broke my code.
🙁 I don't know why they don't change the main code for that widget to
exclude the post(s) currently displayed on the screen. It really doesn't
make sense to have that duplication as the default behavior.
I have seen this recent posts on many blogs lately and I was wondering how this was possible. I thought it was because of a addon or widget and I am correct. I will add this to my blog too.
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I have seen this recent posts on many blogs lately and I was wondering how this was possible. I thought it was because of a addon or widget and I am correct. I will add this to my blog too.
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It is the nice plug in. and am not much familiar with this..so i want more details about it?
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I had an issue with getting my widgets to show in the correct way but after reading some of the posts and your article I managed to solve it.
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thought it was because of a addon or widget and I am correct. I will add this to my blog too.I have seen this recent posts on many blogs lately and I was wondering how this was possible.
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I am using the default recent comments widget on my blog and I believe it gets updated itself. So, I never thought of using any other widget in its place. But I am not happy with the recent comments widget, can you suggest me any?
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Thanks for the plugin, love this