WordPress Recent Posts Plugin

This PHP code will give your WordPress blog a recent posts list as I have on my sidebar to the right.

It's not actually a plugin, you need to cut and paste this code into the sidebar.php of your theme.

Recent Posts

Posted on Friday, Aug 4, 2006

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Nov 19, 2006

Jay Unsworth said...

This is a great help! Thanks for this mate

May 19, 2007

Bock the Robber said...

Hi. This is a nice little feature. However, I notice it picks up pages as well as posts. Do you think it could be refined to show posts only?

Jul 18, 2007

MultiZ said...

Thanks,

It works great on my blog. How did you get it to work with comments as well?

Jul 26, 2007

Jeremy Myers said...

Thanks. This worked perfect and was exactly what I was looking for.

Jul 29, 2007

Chris said...

Nice, although I have the same problem as Bock the Robber-- how can I exclude pages and only include posts??

Sep 26, 2007

Recent Posts Plugin said...

[...] involved. No uploaded files or manipulating funny codes. Just copy and paste the code from this wordpress recent plugin page into your sidebar.php, and that’s it. All done. It was the simplest add-on I’ve ever [...]

Dec 18, 2007

Elliott said...

If you want to only include posts, add the following code to the script on the line BEFORE "$sql .= "GROUP BY $tableposts.ID ORDER BY."

Code to add: $sql .= " AND $tableposts.post_type = 'post' ";

Feb 09, 2008

Scott C. Lemon said...

Just a note ... I added the following line to your code in order to elimate "pages" from being displayed. On the site that I was working on, I only wanted "posts" to display ...

After the line that contains the "WHERE" clause, I added:

$sql .= "AND $tableposts.post_type = 'post' ";

Great function! Thanks!

Mar 27, 2008

Matt Blank said...

Great script! But can it be altered so that it will not list the post your are currently on?

i.e I'm viewing my third latest post, so the list on the left will show posts 1 and 2, then 4 - 11??

Thanks!
Matt

Mar 26, 2009

Brian Clifton said...

I am trying to be clever(ish) and use your script to generate a list of ALL post titles on a single page (possibly even include the contents of the description meta-tag as a snippet.

However pasting the php into a new WP generated page just gets rendered as text. Do you know a way around this WP?

I can't believe WP does not have this kind of feature by default - the only thing users can do is list the entire post content for categories but I just wan the more user friendly title/description tag.

TIA, Brian

Mar 27, 2009

Brian Clifton said...

BTW, this is the example page:
http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/blog/all-posts/

Ian Purton

Ian Purton

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