Recent Posts Ultimate

Recent Posts Ultimate This plugin takes the best features of five VERY popular recent posts plugins, tosses in the ability to show posts with or without HTML code and gives you a Shortcode builder (which you can copy/paste anywhere on a page, a post or inside a widget), while allowing custom post types to be used. You can limit it to certain post types, certain categories, sort it by title or date posted, ascending, descending. You can even select whether you want the featured image shown (as a thumbnail), hide/show the title, link the title, the text, control how many words you want shown in the snippet, etc. Important note: Not all features mentioned above are in this current version. See below for our planned updates. While this is the first version of this plugin, it should be robust enough to handle just about any of your needs. Current Version 1.0.1 Features:

• Shortcode builder allows you to customize most aspects of the post (hide post title, category, date).
• Works anywhere you can use shortcode.
• Responsive, width-wise. Height of div will adjust automatically. This plugin is not compatible with WordPress versions less than 5.0. Requires PHP 5.6+.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

• Check the FAQs/Help located on WordPress' Plugin page, or the Support forum on WordPress.org's plugin area.
• The Shortcode Builder has been extensively tested with both jQuery version 1.12.4 and 3.5.1, without any issues. The output, however, does not need jQuery/JavaScript.

If you downloaded this plugin:

1. Upload the rpu folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Once activated, locate the "BD Plugins" section in WP Admin, and then click on "Quotopia".
4. Follow the directions on the Shortcode Builder tab, create a new quotes library under the Quotes Builder tab, etc.

If you install this plugin through WordPress 2.8+ plugin search interface:

1. Click "Install" on 'Recent Posts Ultimate".
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu.
3. Once activated, locate the "BD Plugins" section in WP Admin, and then click on "Recent Posts Ultimate".
4. Follow the directions on the Shortcode Builder tab, etc.

TODO

• Internationalization
• RPU Widget and Gutenberg block
• Improve section on BearlyDoug.com with additional documentation and examples
• Add Order By and Ascending/Descending
• Number of Posts displayed (pagination notes below)
• Pagination with customized next/previous wording
• Add base templates (standard stacked, accordion, cycle (multiple methods), slider).
• Add a template file to allow people to create their own templates.
• Change Posts & Categories to display categories/taxonomies by post_type
• Link options (External URL, Category, Page, the post itself)
• Add Thumbnail support with image position specifications
• Add image shadowing for thumbnails
• Allowed HTML tags in snippet, with section to control which HTML tags are allowed.
• Suggestions from you?

1.0.1

• Plugin launch (Oct. 19th, 2020)

1.0.0

• Initial Plugin development and launch (Oct. 10th, 2020)