{"id":28075,"date":"2014-02-26T23:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T23:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/recent-posts-by-category-widget\/"},"modified":"2015-08-16T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T12:59:44","slug":"recent-posts-by-category-widget","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/recent-posts-by-category-widget\/","author":7750833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","version":"1.3","stable_tag":"trunk","tested":"4.2.39","requires":"3.0.1","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Recent Posts by Category Widget","header_author":"Ross Cornell","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2017-11-28 16:45:53","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"","header_plugin_uri":"","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/www.rosscornell.com","rating":4.7,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":4000,"downloads":33439,"num_ratings":12,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","changelog","faq"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":"1","3":0,"4":"1","5":"10"},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":[],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":{"screenshot-1.png":{"filename":"screenshot-1.png","revision":"1777089","resolution":"1","location":"plugin"}},"screenshots":{"1":"The widget UI"},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[610,89,1083,168,162],"plugin_category":[43,57],"plugin_contributors":[79710],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-28075","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-categories","plugin_tags-category","plugin_tags-recent-posts","plugin_tags-sidebar","plugin_tags-widget","plugin_category-customization","plugin_category-taxonomy","plugin_contributors-rossc","plugin_committers-rossc"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/recent-posts-by-category-widget.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/recent-posts-by-category-widget\/trunk\/screenshot-1.png?rev=1777089","caption":"The widget UI"}],"raw_content":"\n

This plugin adds a simple widget that allows you to display a number of recent blog posts from a specific category. You have the options to choose a title, category, number of posts and whether or not to show the post date. The posts will be ordered by date just like the default Recent Posts widget included with WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. Upload the 'recent-posts-by-category-widget' directory to the '\/wp-content\/plugins\/' directory<\/li>\n
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n
  3. Navigate to the 'Widgets' page found under the 'Appearance' menu item<\/li>\n
  4. Drag 'Recent Posts by Category Widget' to the target widget area and choose your options<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n

    1.3<\/h4>\n\n
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    • Removed an anonymous function that was breaking sites running PHP 5.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

      1.2<\/h4>\n\n
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      • Switch to PHP5 style constructors for WP v4.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        1.1<\/h4>\n\n
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        • Better use of 'widget_title' filter to allow hooks to be used on it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

          1.0<\/h4>\n\n
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          • Initial release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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            Installation Instructions<\/dt>\n
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            1. Upload the 'recent-posts-by-category-widget' directory to the '\/wp-content\/plugins\/' directory<\/li>\n
            2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n
            3. Navigate to the 'Widgets' page found under the 'Appearance' menu item<\/li>\n
            4. Drag 'Recent Posts by Category Widget' to the target widget area and choose your options<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>","raw_excerpt":"Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/28075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28075"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/rossc"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=28075"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=28075"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=28075"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=28075"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mn.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=28075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}