Category Posts Widget 3.0

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This latest update introduces a few new features:

  • Support for WordPress 2.9′s post thumbnails.
  • Option to show the post date.
  • Option to show the comment count.
  • Option to set the word length of the excerpt.

Note that support for Simple Post Thumbnails has been removed in favor of the built in functionality.

You can download the plugin at the WordPress plugin repository: Download here.

Please donate if you find this plugin useful.

Update: Several people have been reporting an error “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()…” I just pushed out version 3.1 which should fix this. This bug could have been fixed if I had done some more rigorous testing. I’ll do better next time.

About thumbnails: Many people have been wondering why the thumbnail options don’t show up. This is because your theme does not support thumbnails! See Mark’s post to enable them.

163 thoughts on “Category Posts Widget 3.0”

  1. Hi – thanks for a great plugin. Is there a way to control the spacing between the post title and the post contents? Is there css tags?

    You can view the site above and see the issue of extra space between the title and the content.

    Thanks

  2. Could you please add something like:

    $instance["title"] = apply_filters(‘widget_title’, $instance['title']);

    somewhere after the

    if( !$instance["title"] ) { … }

    Would be great for internationalization etc..

  3. Hi!

    I’ve been using your widget, but I had to change:


    to:

    If you continue supporting this, please add an option to allow the full post.

    Thanks!
    - Ace

  4. My code doesn’t appear in the above comment, looks like the php was stripped out.

    Just wanted to say that I changed the_excerpt to the_content because I wanted the full post to display. If you support the plugin in the future, that’d be a great option to include.

    Thanks!

  5. Hi James,

    Not sure if my earlier message went through or if you’re in the middle of approving it.
    The widget is great and does its job, thanks.

    However – I also installed wp e-commerce plugin and when I’m on my product pages, the widget gets all funny:

    Normal state: http://www.aroomthatspeaks.com/about-us/ (see projects widget on left)
    Weird state: http://www.aroomthatspeaks.com/products-page/architecture/ (see project widgets on left)

    Anyway to fix this?