This plugin creates a new widget for your sidebar. In this widget you can display a list of post from a given author and/or category and/or tag. You can also display the featured image, the tags and also a link to the archive page. A bunch of useful options are also available.

Name of the plugin: Posts in Sidebar
Plugin version: 1.8
This plugin requires WordPress 3.3
Tested up to WordPress 3.6
Last updated: June 8, 2013 (10 days ago)
Compatibility: 100% with WordPress 3.5.1
Tags: Post, sidebar, widget
Rating: 5 stars

Latest changes

  • New: added post format as option to get posts.
  • New: added option for link to custom post type archive.
  • New: added option for link to post format archive.
  • Other minor changes.

Download

The stable version is hosted on the official WordPress repository: Posts in Sidebar and has been downloaded 10,472 times.

The development version is hosted on GitHub. Forks are welcome!

Author

Author’s name: Aldo Latino
Profile on wordpress.org: Aldo Latino

Screenshots

  1. posts-in-sidebar screenshot 1

    The widget panel

  2. posts-in-sidebar screenshot 2

    Three widgets in action. Top widget: a single post with all the informations. Middle widget: a single post with few informations. Bottom widget: a single post displayed only with the featured image.

  3. posts-in-sidebar screenshot 3

    The widget displays three posts from a particular category. At the bottom you can view the link to the taxonomy which we retrieved the posts from.

Changelog

1.8

  • New: added post format as option to get posts.
  • New: added option for link to custom post type archive.
  • New: added option for link to post format archive.
  • Other minor changes.

1.7

  • New: The widget can display the author of the post.
  • New: Now the user can choose which type of posts to display: posts, pages, custom post types, etc.
  • New: The widget can display the full content (as in single posts).
  • New: Now the user can add a custom "Read more" text.
  • Added French translation by Thérèse Lachance.
  • Code improvements and sanitization.

1.6

  • New: if in single post, the user can now stylize the current post in the sidebar (feature request from lleroy).

1.5

  • New: Now the title of the widget can be linked to a user-defined URL (feature request from Mike).

1.4

  • New: Now the user can add an introductory text to the widget (feature request from Mike).

1.3

  • New: The date can be linkified or not.
  • New: The widget panel now shows empty categories and tags.
  • New: The 'No posts yet.' text can be customized.
  • Bug fix: The markup no longer shows empty containers.
  • Some minor enhancements.

1.2.1

  • Changed the minimum required WordPress version to 3.3.
  • Added Persian language, thanks to AlirezaJamali.

1.2

  • Enhancement: Now the user can display the entire content for each post. Feature request from sjmsing
  • Moved screenshots to /assets/ directory.

1.1

  • Enhancement: Now it is possible to show the categories of the post
  • Enhancement: Now it is possible to exclude posts coming from some categories and/or tags
  • Moved the widget section into a separate file.

1.0.2

  • Updated Credits section.

1.0.1

  • Small typo in readme.txt.

1.0

  • First release of the plugin.

Contributors

aldolat.

Other Notes

Credits

I would like to say Thank You to all the people who helped me, in particular Jeff for helping me in revisioning this plugin.

Support

You can get support in this forum.

Donations

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