YD Recent Posts Widget
Important notice : since October 2013, the YD Recent Posts Widget plugin has been officially replaced and superseded by the WP Frontpage News Plugin, available free on the WordPress plugin directory, here. (Official announcement here)
Support of the new plugin is available at WPCode-United. Including professional-level service.
The FAQ Page of the old plugin is here (Frequently asked questions and their answers!)
The installation guide and usage manual of the old plugin is here.
Plugin Name: YD Recent Posts
Plugin URI: http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget
WordPress Plugin Directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/ → http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-frontpage-news/
Description: This WordPress plugin installs a new sidebar widget that can display the recent posts with automatic thumbnail images. It is highly customizable allowing different settings on the home page and other blog pages. It uses cache to avoid multiple database query. It is fully internationalized.
Author: Yann Dubois
Version: 3.0.1 →Download YD Recent Posts Widget
New! →Download WP Frontpage News
Release date: 2009-03-08 2013-10-06
Last updated: 2010-08-17 (3.0.1)
Tested with: WordPress 2.3.2 to WordPress 3.0.1 WordPress 3.2 to WordPress 3.6.1
Should be compatible with: WordPress 2.x and above, WordPress 3.x and above
Installation: unzip into your plug-in directory, add widget, enjoy!
Used on: http://www.yann.com (this blog) and many hundred others
Please feel free to report bugs, wishes and remarks by leaving a comment on this page.
Don’t forget to clear the cache using the options page when you make options changes.
- English and French version included since initial release
- Russian version is included since 0.8.4 thanks to Marcis Gasuns a.k.a. FatCow.
- Dutch version is included since 0.8.5 thanks to Rene @ Fethiye Hotels.
- German version is included since 3.0.0 thanks to Rian @ Pangaea
- If you want to contribute a translation, please drop me a line by e-mail or in the comments below. You will get due credits in the plugin file and on-line documentation, and a link to your site from this page and from WordPress.org.
Latest version 3.0.1 is out, it is fully compatible with WordPress 3 and includes native Timthumb support. It is a major release with a lot of new features and improvements. Comments dating back from earlier versions of the plugin have thus often become obsolete and have been archived in the older comments page. If you are researching a specific issue that is not addressed either in the FAQ page or in the comments of this page, you can try and search the older comments page.
Please check out the official FAQ page before posting a new comment/question
La version française de cette page permettant de poser des questions en français est ici.
le 4 August 2010 à 9:50 h
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le 7 August 2010 à 22:54 h
hi,
great plugin but why are you being so reluctant to answer a question: how do we exclude category from the plugin?
PLEASE PLEASE ANSWER THIS..
THANKS
le 12 August 2010 à 12:44 h
Hey, I just added your plugin to my site and it looks great!
I have a little suggestion – maybe you should add a module in the post editor where you can override the default image (or first image of the post) with a specific image of your choosing.
This can come in handy with posts that do not include an image (video posts or short poll posts) but are important enough that you’d want to assign them their own image.
Thanks again for this great plugin!
le 13 August 2010 à 9:43 h
@arie10
This is already easy to achieve. Just add a designated thumdnail to the post in question. This is done in the wp dashboard. Go to the post, look in the bottom of the right column. Add a thumbnail. This thumbnail will be displayed by YD recent posts.
le 13 August 2010 à 15:17 h
Thanks Tomatsallad!
le 13 August 2010 à 17:53 h
The thumbnail is now called “featured image” in WordPress 3.0.1 but as far as I can tell, it does the same thing. Of course if you do replace the image you may have to clear the thumbnail cache on the YD recent Posts Admin Page before your new image will show up.
le 14 August 2010 à 7:41 h
Is there anyway to increase the characters or words displayed in excerpts? I love this plug in but to be able to control that would be awesome. thank you.
le 15 August 2010 à 4:48 h
Hi there,
I can’t figure out how to change the display order of post date and title in the widget.
I’d like to display the title first and then the date in a separate line. I couldn’t find a easy solution for this in the yd-recent-post-widget.php file, and css is not working either.
le 15 August 2010 à 23:08 h
Salut Yann !
I’m using your plugin in this site :
http://www.beatboxblog.fr
I really appreciate the work you did !
However, I can’t get the latest posts just under the widget title. Do you have any idea about this ? It’s on the left site of the homepage.
Thanks 😉
Romain
le 15 August 2010 à 23:20 h
Sorry for the previous message.
I finally got it right by desactivating the css loading !
Thanks one more time for this plugin !
le 17 August 2010 à 18:17 h
@All
Version 3.0.1 is officially out and considered stable/official.
It corrects all the bugs that were reported in beta version 3.0.
It is fully compatible with WP3.0.1 and remains backwards compatible with WP and WPMU2.9x.
It also corrects the bugs from previous supported and unsupported versions (cache clearing issues in 0.9,…)
Due to all the new features, it will take me a little time to add a new FAQ page on this site and explain how to do things such as -yes, now feasible!- select posts from a specific category, so please hang on a bit more.
Please continue posting bug reports, issues and feature requests on this page only (not in WordPress.org forums, I have no time to check those out on a regular basis, and not by e-mail); and please continue reading previous answers before reporting an issue. This will get easier to do when the FAQ page is out… soon.
Thanks to all for your support, and if you like the plugin and would like me to continue spending hours improving it, don’t forget to donate. I spent a few dozen hours upgrading the plugin to this version, all for free. I will greatly appreciate your funding future releases.
Now enjoy it!
le 17 August 2010 à 19:15 h
Excellent as a section with frequently asked questions, and most importantly the power to express the needs for this wonderful plugin.
Only two suggestions:
1 – put a spacer can be a thin line between the post
2 – The most frequent question: to place a category (ID) and amount specified in the home.
That is my suggestion from the rest is perfect.
le 17 August 2010 à 20:18 h
The new official FAQ page is here:
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/faq
It already explains how to restrict the posts to a specific category ID or name in the widget.
I will add on some more questions/answers to this FAQ shortly.
le 17 August 2010 à 21:43 h
I uploaded this plugin, went to my widget page and dragged it over to use in my sidebar, but when I click the little arrow on the right hand side of the widget to expand the box and edit the settings, it won’t expand. All it shows is an empty space with the options to Delete, Close, or Save. (I’ve already saved it once.)
Is something broken in the current version that won’t let you edit the settings…?
Any help you could offer would be appreciated.
le 17 August 2010 à 21:46 h
Sorry, me again. I should have included this in the first comment I left. Just so you know I’m using the newest version of WordPress and newest version of Firefox (on OSX.)
le 18 August 2010 à 1:23 h
@Brenna
On this site I am running version 3.0.1 of the plugin on WordPress 3.0.1 and I administer it with Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.8 on Linux (pretty close to OSX). I tried to upgrade the plugin or install it from scratch and never encountered the blank widget admin panel you are describing. Could you check the page source code to see if the panel content is there, hidden, somewhere in the admin page layout, or if some kind of bug blocks the php display altogether?
One possibility is a conflict with another plugin or widget: can you try moving that widget up or down in your sidebar, or deactivating other widgets?
le 18 August 2010 à 7:01 h
I check the code with Firebug and it looks like the widget is outputing something to the site (the container div has the class of .yd_rp_widget) but it’s not physically displaying anything. The tags inside have links in them to my most recent posts but again, they’re not actually showing up.
If you want to take a look at it, my test site is up at: http://www.pinstripepresentations.com/artsvest_wp/about-us/
(Inspect the code right between the “Connect With Us” and the “Upcoming Events” sections in the sidebar, you’ll find the widget hiding there.)
I tried moving around certain widgets and deactivating some of my newer ones, but nothing seems to work. I still can’t expand the YD Recent Posts widget and or edit it in any way.
le 18 August 2010 à 7:10 h
Whoa I got it working! I don’t know what happened — I removed all of my widgets, then added the YD Recent Post one first, then all of my other ones, and suddenly it works.
Cool. Well, thanks anyway for your help! Hopefully it doesn’t konk out on me again. Thanks again for the plugin~ 😀
le 18 August 2010 à 7:18 h
I’m sorry, just one question now that I have it working and can see the settings and what it outputs.
Is there anyway to move the date to underneath the post title link? Right now it displays as:
July 12, 2010: Blog Post Title
July 12, 2010: Blog Post Title
But instead, is there anyway to get it to display as:
Blog Post Title
July 12, 2010
Blog Post Title
July 12, 2010
?
Thank you.
le 18 August 2010 à 9:49 h
Same here. I only run one widget. This one. After updating it to 3.0.1 I get a blank widget.
le 18 August 2010 à 10:17 h
@Sjoerd
If you upgraded from a previous version, please try resetting the plugin options, as mentioned in the upgrading instructions (“Reset plugin options” buton in the settings page). Some previous setting might prevent the display of all the items (all items are now optional).
le 18 August 2010 à 10:20 h
@Brenna:
Right now, for the sake of simplicity, there is no way to change the order of the items. You can only choose to display them or not. I’m considering the option to add some output templates in a future version, so that things can be moved around freely.
le 18 August 2010 à 18:54 h
@Francophones:
Tous les commentaires en français ont été déménagés sur la nouvelle page en français de l’extension, désormais disponible ici :
http://www.yann.com/fr/extensions-wordpress/yd-widget-billets-recents
Merci de poster les questions en français sur cette page uniquement.
(@Non-French speakers: this is just to announce that French comments have been moved to the new official French language page of the plugin).
le 18 August 2010 à 19:08 h
…. I can not put this code to call the category 2 news 10 and I do not work:
ayuda por favor.
le 18 August 2010 à 19:09 h
le 19 August 2010 à 18:07 h
@All older comments (previous to version 3.0.1) have been moved to the “older comments page”, here:
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/old-comments
le 19 August 2010 à 22:00 h
Yann – Upgrading completely broke my font-page. Now nothing displays in the widget at all.
I have followed your instructions by resetting the plugin options. Still nothing.
I uninstalled and then reinstalled. Still nothing.
I uninstalled, reinstalled, and reset the options. Nothing.
I downgraded to the previous version of the plugin. That works…but every time I install the new one, I just get a completely blank widget. Not a good thing to have happen to a live site. 🙁
Not even the widget title shows up. Just a blank box where, I assume, the widget content is supposed to be. Viewing the source of the page shows that the widget is displaying content, but the viewer cannot see it. I’ve tried removing the css style, changing it, and leaving it. Still doesn’t display anything.
Tested in Chrome on a 3.0.1 installation of WordPress.
le 19 August 2010 à 23:12 h
@Philippe Fenderson
A blank widget display can be one of three things:
1 – Either you did not check any of the optional items checkboxes in the widget admin panel. Please make sure that some items are selected for display among those:
– Display post thumbnail:
– Display post title:
– Display post date:
– Display post excerpt:
After an upgrade to version 3 of the plugin, this is the most common issue, because you already had a widget configured, that did not have the new default settings for the new optional features set. Please make sure some of those checkboxes are checked! If nothing is checked, nothing displays, hence the blank rendering.
2 – Some html/css rendering issue
The basic structure of the css did not change between earlier versions and version 3.x, but you never know what other styles (from your theme or from another plugin) would be conflicting. I can’t do much about this, except make sure that the default styles provided with the plugin work well with th WP default theme and with my own themes (and this has been tested with the Chromium 5.0 rendering engine so there is no reason it would not display with Chrome)
3 – Some other issue which blocks php from rendering the widget content
One other user has explained that they had to move the widgets around in their sidebar and deactivate/reactivate other widgets to make YD Recent Posts run. If this is the case, I can only recommend trying out the widgets in another order, or deactivating all widgets and then reactivating them one by one to find which one is conflicting.
The core features of the widget did not change that much between previous versions and new version 3.x, so I am confident that if you have the previous version working fine, you should be able to make it work again with version 3. It’s probably just that some of the new available settings is configured in a way that does not work right on your site. The hard part of course is finding which setting it is. You could try to add a second instance of the widget (that will automatically inherit all the new default settings) and see if that one displays. If this is the case, just copy the settings from the 2nd instance to the first one, or drag the first instance out of your sidebar and keep the working one.
le 20 August 2010 à 0:29 h
I give up …. I asked several times the same and do not receive specific response, the Lugín is wonderful no doubt about that and I think just make some money to its creator, I will do is right.
Just ask me clear up this doubt:
I need to display the category (ID 3) with 5 news …. what is the code specifically for this.
le 20 August 2010 à 1:31 h
Yann – Thank you so much! It was, of course, the simplest answer. I appreciate your help.
I have it all worked out, except for the default image. For some odd reason, it is trying to fetch my blog’s homepage instead of any other image URL I put in the box. This even happens after resetting the plugin’s defaults. This results in broken image.
le 20 August 2010 à 11:09 h
@Luchosar
I am sorry but your questions were not always very clear to me, and I have only limited time to do free specific support.
I believe the answer to your questions is already in the FAQ and the WP codex. Here are the links;
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/faq
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
Specifically, if you are using the widget, add
‘cat=3&showposts=5’ to the “Additional query parameters:” field.
If you are using the template function, use this:
<?php display_yd_recent_posts_here( ”, ”, ‘cat=3&showposts=5’ ) ?>
le 20 August 2010 à 11:37 h
Hello,
Excuse my english, I’m french. I’m using the new version of your plugin, with WordPress 3.0.1, and I want to display only posts from a given category. So, in the “Additional query parameters” of the widget admin panel, I put “cat=1”.
I emptied the cache. And it doesn’t work. I don’t understand. Can you help me please.
PS : I can’t show you my site, it’s a model, and there are some false advertising.
le 20 August 2010 à 11:53 h
@Mickaël
If you prefer to speak French there is a French-speaking support page here:
http://www.yann.com/fr/extensions-wordpress/yd-widget-billets-recents
What you did is correct, so there must be some other problem:
– Are there any posts marked with the category ID 1 of your blog?
– Please make sure the “Skip latest posts on home page:” checkbox is unchecked in the main plugin settings page.
If it still does not work, please be more specific about how it “doesn’t work”: does it display nothing at all? does it display all posts?
le 20 August 2010 à 12:42 h
Thanks to answer me faster.
You’re right, the “Skip latest posts on home page” checkbox was checked in the main plugin settings page. But the problem persists. In fact the plugin display all posts.
Ofcourse I have emptied the cache.
le 21 August 2010 à 5:13 h
can get it to work with thimbthumbnails.php.
it works with the Use WP2.9+ post thumbnails enabled. but not with post with thumbnails that i have set with “Simple Post Thumbnails plugin) wich uses timthumb.php.
i set it like this
/wp-content/plugins/simple-post-thumbnails/timthumb.php
but isnt working..
also the Default image URL: isnt works… with a image in content or an image in other server like imageshack or something like that, isnt works..
le 21 August 2010 à 7:59 h
need help, my recent post only show 1 post in the home page and also it show the oldest post (not recent).
In subpage it works well.
check it http://www.car-claims.com
need urgent help
le 21 August 2010 à 14:24 h
Strange. Great plugin, but the cat= query in the field does not work. It keeps on displaying posts form the point they disappear on the frontpage.
Can somebody help me? Thank you so much
le 21 August 2010 à 15:10 h
ah, I found out my problem.
we should uncheck “Skip latest posts on home page:” @ setting, it’s really crazy. It only show 1 “oldest” post only instead of “lastest” posts
le 21 August 2010 à 18:12 h
@Car Claims
Don’t forget to put an S behind Article in the title of the widget!
le 22 August 2010 à 2:24 h
Hey,
the plugin seems great, but I’ve installed it on WordPress 3.0.1. and there is no checkbox to display the date as indicated. I’m using the plugin version v.3.0.1.
Can you please help.
le 23 August 2010 à 20:12 h
I’m having the same problem that zet is having, just as I’ve mentioned in my second comment above: http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4520
For some reason, no matter what URL I put in the default URL field, it always tries to load my blog’s homepage as the image.
le 23 August 2010 à 21:20 h
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le 24 August 2010 à 0:17 h
Listo…Paypal hecho!!!!
me pondre en contacto con usted para un trabajo adicional..gracias.
le 24 August 2010 à 0:36 h
Hey there, Yann! You have to get this plugin updated in the WordPress repository… I’ve been working with version 0.85 and wondering why I don’t see all the options you guys are talking about… you’re in version 3.x!!!
Thanks for a great plugin!
-Anthony
le 24 August 2010 à 0:44 h
@Anthony:
The plugin has been officially released in the WordPress repository since 08/17, and there is no other official site, so the WP repository is always up-to-date. I don’t understand how it’s possible that your source did not show the available update? Blogs running a recent version of WordPress usually show the available update a few minutes after release in the repository (if you manually check with control panel -> updates). However, the warning in the extensions list can take a few days to appear, it’s not real time. But again, the repository itself is always up-to-date.
le 24 August 2010 à 0:44 h
@Luchosar:
I did not receive anything in Paypal… yet.
le 24 August 2010 à 20:06 h
Yann – So, I’ve checked everywhere, and I don’t understand why the widget is loading my homepage rather than the site that I’ve put in.
The url I’m using is http://website.com/images/m.png. It matches in the database under widget_yd_rp. However, the widget continues to try and load my homepage url – http://website.com – instead of that image.
Again, resetting the defaults does not fix it. I’ve tried removing the widget and re-adding it, as well as clearing the caches. I’ve even gone as far as dropping the database tables and reinstalling the plugin. Still the same problem.
le 24 August 2010 à 20:44 h
@Philippe
Maybe it’s a bug, I did not have time to check it out yet. If it’s a bug it will be corrected very soon. Stay tuned!
le 24 August 2010 à 21:45 h
i think its a bug indeed.
to replicate it install simple thumbnails plugin. cause many themes is using that to make thimthumbnail works easy and fast.
le 24 August 2010 à 22:37 h
I just updated the plugin on http://www.storage-brain.com/ and I can’t get the image to display as it was before the update. It should be the same as in the forum widget above it. I even entered the URL for the picture as the default image but it is still showing your default (and yes, I did clear the cache).
le 25 August 2010 à 11:40 h
@Johnny:
The “Display date:” checkbox is in the widget option panel. You can find visual instructions on how to access and configure the widget settings in the new user’s guide page here:
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/usage-guide
le 25 August 2010 à 17:10 h
@Janet, @Zet, @Philippe:
The default image issue is a confirmed bug of version 3.0.1 indeed 🙁
This will be corrected in the next release.
In the meantime here is a quick bugfix:
– edit file …/wp-content/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/inc/yd-rpw-widget.inc.php with a text editor. On line # 124 replace this statement:
$default_image = $options[$i][“default_image”];
with this:
$default_image = $options[0][“default_image”];
($i should be 0 instead, this is the zero digit)
I’m checking out other potential issues before releasing a bugfix version. Thanks for noticing!
le 25 August 2010 à 18:20 h
Thanks, Yann – that’s very helpful.
Another thing I noticed is that the widget no longer has a title. To get around this, I’ve put a text widget with just a title and no content, but this results in an unwanted gap. Can you please restore the title, even as an option?
Thanks!
le 25 August 2010 à 18:33 h
@Janet the widget does have an optional title, you set that up in the widget option panel. You can even have a different title on your home page and other pages. If you are unsure how to access the widget option panel and its options, please check out here:
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/usage-guide#widget-options
le 25 August 2010 à 19:20 h
Yann, I’m sorry to tell you that it does not. The new widget says “There are no options for this widget.”
le 25 August 2010 à 20:31 h
@Janet:
I think you probably took the “YD Previous Posts” widget (which indeed has no option) instead of the “YD Recent Posts” I was talking about. I’m not sure Previous Posts ever had a title… I’m not sure how many people really use it as a widget, so I never bothered adding a title nor option. Is that however what you need?
le 25 August 2010 à 21:20 h
No, you’re right – I took the wrong one. Thank you for setting me straight!
le 26 August 2010 à 6:54 h
Hi there, this plugin is great, thanx.
JUST ONE QUESTION: How we can make the thumb list in a horizontal view, not vertical view?
le 26 August 2010 à 22:35 h
I am having trouble trying to remove the title “YD Recent Posts” above the recent posts, I am using the php code in a template any idea how I can remove the text?
le 26 August 2010 à 23:50 h
nvm got it, thanks anyway.
le 27 August 2010 à 6:01 h
I LOVE this widget! Thank you!!
I need to use it more than once in the sidebar – and can’t get the php code to work to only show 3 posts for the category ‘fatshion-chic-jessica-kane’.
If you could give me the snipped I would be so grateful!!!!!!!!
The widget works perfectly. If only I could insert the widget more than once! 🙁
Thanks for the help,
Jessica Kane
le 27 August 2010 à 6:57 h
Hello. As I add a line to separate each post.
Gracias.
le 30 August 2010 à 18:17 h
This is a great plugin. Thanks. I do have a question, though. I have manually inserted the code into my pages and have customized a bit to make the thumbnails 80×60. The problem is that I cannot get the images to stop using style=”width:60px;height:60px;padding-right:5px;padding-bottom:5px;float:left;”
I have made changes in the settings. I have edited the CSS. I have even tried editing yd-recent-posts-widget.php. Nothing works. The blog is using WordPress 3.0.1 and I have enabled the featured images. They show up, but they are not the right size. Is there something I am missing?
Thanks.
le 30 August 2010 à 18:30 h
hello,
i seem to be having a similar problem to some of the people here where my thumbnail won’t show. i set a specific thumbnail in the “featured image” box and it will only display the title of the post instead of a thumbnail image.
le 31 August 2010 à 0:55 h
Hi there,
Thanks so much for this great plugin!
I just have a problem with the default image not showing up. It didn’t show up with the default settings, and it still doesn’t show up after i have inserted a new image location on my server. Is this a bug or do i do something wrong? I see that other people have the same problem in the comments above.
Regards,
Stefan
le 31 August 2010 à 9:47 h
Is there nobody who can tell me why the cat= query soes not work? Thank you
le 31 August 2010 à 11:45 h
@Stefan:
Please look up here, comment #46, #50 and the fix in #52, I believe this is your problem.
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4610
le 1 September 2010 à 3:28 h
Great plugin! Exactly what I’m looking for!
Only I need it in multiple instances… Basically, I need to be able to use about 6 instances of this widget on a single page.
For some reason, once I use it, it disappears from the list of available widgets. Any plans to fix this?
le 1 September 2010 à 11:22 h
@George:
Yeah, for some reason, the multiple implementation in version 3.0.1 still does not work. I’m working on making it functional in the next major release of the plugin, so please hang on.
le 1 September 2010 à 19:50 h
$default_image = $options[0][“default_image”];
Hasn’t made any difference, the thumbnails are still being displayed at 60px by 60px (ive cleared the cache and modified the css files aswell).
le 1 September 2010 à 21:24 h
This plugin is not working on my homepage of http://www.sagardezign.com/blog/
whereas it is running fine on inner posts.
Whats mistake and why?
le 2 September 2010 à 7:01 h
I try to change the default 60×60 image to my own image, but it will not work. I cleared the cache, and no difference.
le 2 September 2010 à 15:41 h
#71 Sagar – did you check the option “Skip latest posts on home page”?
Yann – here is my problem. All I did was install the 3.0.1 upgrade. That’s all I did. And poof! The recent posts no longer display.
HOWEVER … when I view the source code, I see it in the sidebar, where it’s supposed to be. I have tried turning the CSS options on and off but still, they do not show. What has changed?
le 2 September 2010 à 16:04 h
@Aaron
Please check out comment # 28 above :
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4518
Make sure you have some “display…” checkboxes ticked in the widget’s option panel. If necessary, please check the doc to access the widget panel and restore it to the new default display settings after an upgrade :
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/usage-guide#widget-options
le 2 September 2010 à 19:05 h
This is a great plugin but I’m still having problems with removing the 60px by 60px thumbnail
http://www.avongreen.com/
I have implemented the modified code you recommened earlier,
“edit file …/wp-content/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/inc/yd-rpw-widget.inc.php with a text editor. On line # 124 replace this statement:
$default_image = $options[$i][“default_image”];
with this:
$default_image = $options[0][“default_image”];”
But this had no effect 🙁
le 3 September 2010 à 17:28 h
I have been using version 0.8.5 of this awesome plugin for several months and I love it.
I installed the new version 3.0.1 which certainly adds more control over the plugin, but I found that the sidebar display shows with no spacing between every entry and modifying the css did not improved the display, so I had to revert to the old version.
I will love to use the new versions if someone can tell me how to control the spacing between entries.
Thanks for this awesome plugin and keep up with the good job.
le 4 September 2010 à 14:22 h
To #76:
This is the code I’m using on http://akisama.com.
.widget_yd_rp * {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.yd_rp_widget {
border-bottom:1px solid #efefef;
display:block;
width:336px;
margin-left:1.2em;
margin-right:1.2em;
margin-top:1.2em;
margin-bottom:1.2em;
}
.yd_rp_widget ul li {
clear: both;
float:none;
padding-bottom:1.2em;
list-style-type: none;
display:block;
}
.yd_rp_widget ul li img{
display:block;
height:60px;
width:60px;
margin-right:5px;
margin-bottom:5px;
float:none;
}
.yd_rp_excerpt {
display:block;
font-size:12px;
font-family:arial;
}
.yd_rp_widget ul li h4 {
display:block;
font-size:14px;
font-family:arial;
color:#2B33CC;
font-weight:700;
line-height:1.25em;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.yd_rp_widget a.rpw_bottom_link {
display: block;
}
Note that in your /wp-content/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/css/ directory, there is a file named yd_rp.css. I blanked out that file name and out all the .css into one file to improve my Yslow score.
le 4 September 2010 à 16:58 h
To #77 Tony
I applied your code to my site and it worked perfectly.
It is the solution I was looking for.
Thank you very much Tony.
le 4 September 2010 à 19:12 h
Response to item 46:
Hello … please confirm via Paypal cash – 10 euros 20 days ago
le 5 September 2010 à 2:00 h
I use a CDN to host my images, but my thumbnails are being generated from my local image files. Is there a way to get the widget to use the images from my cdn?
le 6 September 2010 à 5:54 h
Hi there,
When I use the shortcode [ yd_list_posts ] it automatically puts the plugin at the top of the page, regardless of where I insert it in the HTML of the page.
Here’s a link to the page. I want the plugin to appear under Latest News. In the HTML, shortcode is put in this section, but when I view the Page Source online, it puts it at the top.
Have tried this on various pages on the site and it does the same thing. Have tested shortcodes from other plugins and they do appear in the correct place.
Can you please let me know how to fix this? Thanks!
le 6 September 2010 à 10:10 h
@Luchosar
I did not receive a PayPal donation 20 days ago. The only 10 € payments I received this year came from Australia and the UK. I could not trace any payment to your email address or web site.
It seems your payment did not get through.
le 6 September 2010 à 13:32 h
[…] Use the <?php display_yd_previous_posts_here() ?> function to display a list of previous posts. For specific installations, some more information might be found on the YD Recent Posts Widget plugin support page […]
le 6 September 2010 à 19:03 h
A clarification request the Bank … wait for news. It helped me a lot and it is fair to pay for it., I am indebted to you. I will communicate for a job, but later.
le 7 September 2010 à 0:26 h
Hi, great Plugin.
If i want to use my theme general css what must i do?
And please, what is the string about skip latest home page post?
thank you 🙂
le 7 September 2010 à 7:47 h
Hi Yann,
Hopefully that 10 € payment was mine from a day or two ago?
Like Sandra, I’d like to use the shortcode (so that other authors can create listings) but have the list appear below text that has been placed above it in the post/page.
I find that if I comment out the line $echo = TRUE in the function widget_yd_rp (around line 44 in yd-rpw-widget.inc.php) then the generated HTML is added in the right spot rather than inserted at the start of the contents.
I haven’t yet tested to see if this mod has any other effects. (You had set $echo false before calling the shortcode registration function).
I’ll let you know if I have any problems with this, but it might be nice to incorporate it in a future build if it is not conflicting with any other needs?
Yann, I’m also finding it hard to pass arguments to the shortcode (like the ones mentioned as optional parameters in yd-rpw-widget.inc.php ). spec_query works fine, but the others seem to be ignored.
le 7 September 2010 à 10:09 h
On second viewing, I think the argument in the the shortcode thing might have been a refresh issue.
le 8 September 2010 à 0:40 h
Hi Andrew,
You’re a genius! that did the trick!
le 8 September 2010 à 2:10 h
@Andrew:
Thanks very much for the fix.
This is indeed a bug that will be fixed in the next release.
le 8 September 2010 à 5:10 h
Has anyone had any luck changing the default thumbnail size from 60 x 60 (and the default padding)? In Firebug, there seems to be something in the CSS called element.style which is setting these measurements and I can’t find this in any CSS files on my theme or any plugins.
Here’s the link
Also, any idea how to remove ‘YD Recent Posts’ from the top of this plugin? Can’t find anything in the code (it doesn’t relate to anything in the CSS either).
Thanks!
le 8 September 2010 à 5:41 h
Hi Sandra,
I put this in my style.css.
.yd_rp_widget img {
height: 100px !important;
width: auto !important;
}
The !important overrides the .yd_rp_widget img definitions made later in yd_rp.css
Note, being css, this naturally only does a scaling on presentation.
On the second question, I’m assuming you’re meaning from using the shortcode? In which case you could try something like
[yd_list_posts title=’Testing’]
le 8 September 2010 à 22:46 h
Thanks so much Andrew! You’re a lifesaver! I just put in place of Testing to get rid of that title completely.
le 8 September 2010 à 23:19 h
Thank you Andrew, couldn’t get the other “fixes” to work, but that did it. Thanks! 😀
le 9 September 2010 à 3:51 h
Hi,
I just installed the plugin on my client’s homepage at
http://www.southwalestopshops.com/
And I need to know how or where to take out the title YD Recent Posts. I’m using the php code and have looked everywhere, but can’t find it.
Help please 🙂
Thanks
le 9 September 2010 à 3:57 h
@Lise :
In the widget option panel just erase the title. I don’t get it why you should look at the PHP code to do this. The widget admin panel is detailed in the documentation page linked at the top of this page. The widget title is the first option field of the widget option panel.
le 9 September 2010 à 4:00 h
Thanks Yann, but I’m not using it as a widget in the sidebar so I needed to use this code in the index.php
Isn’t that right?
le 9 September 2010 à 4:01 h
oops the php code didn’t show in the comment… but maybe this will
php display_yd_recent_posts_here
le 9 September 2010 à 4:07 h
@Lise:
I see. I think you can still erase the title by installing the widget, configuring it, and then removing it. I think the template function still uses the same default settings as the widget. I also think that you can pass an empty “title=” parameter to the function to override the default title setting (not really sure if this works, although it is supposed to!).
le 9 September 2010 à 4:13 h
ok thanks will try it.
Merci 🙂
le 9 September 2010 à 9:22 h
Yann, I’m not sure that the settings in the widget section are loaded by inline (either PHP function call or using the shortcode in a post/page) invocation. Might be a callback mechanism issue? However, for those using the shortcode or PHP function call, the parameters are available through the calling mechanism.
(eg [yd_list_posts title=’ ‘ spec_query=’tag=dogs skin’], or display_yd_recent_posts_here( ”, ”, ‘category=cats’ );
Yann, I think a help page listing all the passable parameters would be really handy. I’ve written one for my own internal documentation, but haven’t made it public. I can pass it on to you when it’s finished, but to be honest, I’m having trouble working out which parameters work and which ones don’t. I wonder if it’s a page caching issue, or something else.
le 9 September 2010 à 9:39 h
Oops. Meant ‘category_name=cats’ above.
le 9 September 2010 à 11:01 h
Yann, when we pass parameters to shortcode (and probably the PHP function, but I haven’t checked), if they are ‘false’ or 0, they will be ignored.
I can see it in the code. You test eg
if( $args[‘display_thumb’] ) $display_thumb = $args[‘display_thumb’];
If I have passed “display_thumb=0”, the above will evaluate as false and not store the intended setting.
By testing with isset, I got this to work as expected. I note that it needed an “Update Plugin Settings” to clear the cache.
le 9 September 2010 à 11:24 h
@Andrew:
Good point, this is another bug. Thanks for finding it and suggesting the fix! – This again will be fixed in the next release.
The new parameter feature of v.3 definitely needs some more bulletproofing and a bit of documentation.
le 10 September 2010 à 17:38 h
I posted this on the FAQ page, but wasn’t sure if that was the right place for it. I was just wondering if there was a way to make the recent posts appear in two columns, instead of just one.
Thanks!
le 13 September 2010 à 10:37 h
I have a BuddyPress installation with the newest version of WordPress. I installed your plugin and added a “YD Recent Posts” widget – but it doesn’t show up. I went to the options page, all settings seem to be correct, I did “clear cache”.
When I go back to the widgets page and open the settings of “YD Recent Posts” widget – all settings are empty. Somehow the settings in the widget don’t get saved properly.
le 14 September 2010 à 9:43 h
Mindy, there are a few ways of approaching this.
One can to a generic multiple-column approach, using CSS.
It is still quite fiddly and experimental up to CSS3.
The definitive word is at
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/
It may be possible to even wrap the widget in the appropriate CSS.
Another way would be to use two instances of the shortcode and say “Okay 5 posts in one cell of a table row, 5 posts in another”, and just hope they’ll look relatively even (which, given that yd_list_posts is fairly uniform in both image size and text amount, should be about right).
To do the second column, you’ll need to start at – for example – post number 6.
Having a look through http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
You should be able to use something like spec_query=’posts_per_page=5&paged=2′, but I’ve not tried this. I’ve had trouble using posts_per_page and had to tweak numbers to get the right result without really knowing why.
Hope this helps.
le 14 September 2010 à 9:57 h
Multicol is more experimental than I thought.
See also
http://www.css3.info/preview/multi-column-layout/ and
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/multicolumn.html
In short, “Multi-column layout is currently only supported in Mozilla based browsers and Safari 3”, and using the -moz or -webkit prefixes.
le 14 September 2010 à 15:00 h
Andrew, thanks for the reply about the two columns. So it looks like saying something like “display 1-5 of the most recent posts in this column” and “display 6-10 of the most recent posts in this other column” is essentially the best way to go about this. Where would I put the code you mentioned/how do I combine this with your plugin? (spec_query=’posts_per_page=5&paged=2′)
le 15 September 2010 à 2:01 h
Hi Mindy,
This is Yann’s plugin, not mine! 🙂
btw: I did get two columns working with -moz-column-count in Firefox.
The shortcodes should read something like
[ yd_list_posts spec_query=’posts_per_page=5′ ]
in one TD and in the adjacent one would be
[ yd_list_posts spec_query=’posts_per_page=5&paged=2′ ]
(you’ll need to take the spaces out from inside the brackets).
I have a little trouble getting consistent results from posts_per_page.
Let us know how it goes!
le 15 September 2010 à 2:25 h
Just tried it myself. Neither paged=2 nor offset=5 seem to be working for me. 🙁
A bit more juggling found that it nearly works if I just specify
[ yd_list posts spec_query=’offset=5′] for the second one.
Then I hit some sort of caching issue, and couldn’t get sensible responses to my mods. Anyhow, I think it will work for you with some tweaking and time.
le 15 September 2010 à 4:18 h
Dude,
You haven’t separated the date and title so it’s impossible to have them on separate lines, give them different styles etc.
Even just wrapping a span around the date or title would be sufficient.
A great little plugin but really, the date and title are two completely different entities and of course should be separate! This is simple common sense…
le 15 September 2010 à 5:29 h
To everyone having problems with the date and title being inseparable, here’s a little javascript to sort out the problem. This keeps them still both inside the link but separated (also removes semi-colon).
Just drop this code inside your document.ready jquery block:
$(‘.yd_rp_widget ul li h4 a’).each(function(index){
var dateAndTitle = $(this).html();
var stringArray = dateAndTitle.split(‘: ‘);
var date = ”+stringArray[0]+”;
var title = ”+stringArray[1]+”;
$(this).html(date+title);
});
😉
le 15 September 2010 à 5:34 h
When I submitted that last post, it removed the opening and closing span tags around the date and title. Put whatever tags you want around stringArray[0] and stringArray[1] and add CSS classes for maximum happiness. 😀
le 15 September 2010 à 14:42 h
Andrew, thanks for being so helpful! I really appreciate it! I must be missing something because I am getting errors if all I put are the brackets with your code inside my table columns. I am assuming I must wrap it in some php code to get it to work? I know this is wrong, but this was the last thing I tried:
le 15 September 2010 à 14:51 h
It looks like it took off my code. After looking at the FAQ page again I realized now you were giving me shortcode to be used within a post or page. Is there a way to hard code it using php to put in my index template?
le 16 September 2010 à 1:44 h
@Swami Gee: I agree. Having css classes for each of our components would be really handy. How about it, Yann? 🙂
@Mindy: Sorry I wasn’t clear enough on my examples being shortcode.
I haven’t used the PHP version (I’m trying to have my website set up so that non-programmers can also author this stuff), but my guess is it would be something like
display_yd_recent_posts_here( ,, ‘posts_per_page=5’ ) ;
and
display_yd_recent_posts_here( ,, ‘offset=5’ ) ;
le 16 September 2010 à 9:08 h
@Andrew, Swami
Yeah, I’ll wrap the date in its own css div in the upcoming maintenance release all right.
le 16 September 2010 à 9:11 h
Just interested to know: Will the issues in my comment (13 September 2010 à 10:37 h) be addressed in this maintenance release?
le 16 September 2010 à 9:17 h
@Sam:
I don’t know what the issue is right there. I am considering rewriting the widget code completely according to the WP2.9+ object-oriented multi-instance widget template. That might fix your problem (or not… since I don’t know what the issue is exactly). However, I don’t know if I’ll be doing this in the next maintenance release or later on. Depends on the time I will find to work on it.
le 16 September 2010 à 19:25 h
@Andrew: THANKS so much for all your help! i ended up putting this in one td php display_yd_previous_posts_here( 4 ) and this in the other php display_yd_previous_posts_here( ‘posts_per_page=4&offset=4’ ) and besides a couple CSS things i need to fix, it looks exactly how i wanted it to!
random side note/question…the date is not showing up in mine…i thought it looked like it was supposed to be a default setting to show the date with the entries. any reason why mine wouldn’t be doing that?
le 16 September 2010 à 23:34 h
Finally!!
Dubois Now if you already have $ 10 check from me please.
le 16 September 2010 à 23:40 h
@Luchosar:
Yes I just received it. Thank you.
le 16 September 2010 à 23:41 h
One last thing, I want to put a line after each news but I could not, help me please?
le 20 September 2010 à 4:50 h
luchosar, in your style.css page (or whatever it may be called in your theme), add:
div.yd_rp_excerpt { padding-bottom:25px; }
or 1em or whatever you like.
I just realised that you probably meant horizontal line.
See what happens if you do something like
div.yd_rp_excerpt { border-bottom:thick solid #ff0000; }
Other possible styles to use are dotted, dashed, double, groove, ridge, inset and outset.
Hope this helps.
le 21 September 2010 à 22:49 h
I had the same problem with the default image, it doesn’work, even after the workaround (0 instead of $i at line 124)
le 23 September 2010 à 10:07 h
hello
what do I have to do to get a 3×3 our 4×4 tab of recents posts (without any text) like ‘articles récents’ in thios page http://www.leblogdebetty.com/
Do I have to update the css file or add a parameter in Additional query parameters ?
thanks in advance
le 24 September 2010 à 1:22 h
Hi Olive. I notice that she uses WordPress too, so you could just ask her!
It should be feasible to do that with a few settings. I can’t take the time to list the details but:
1) If setting Default text string cut length to 0 does what one would expect (I don’t know, I haven’t tested it), that would be a good place to start
2) And then disable Display as a ul / li list:
3) In your styles.css file, set the width and height of the container (div.yd_rp_widget) to 3 or 4 times the picture size, plus some more for spacing
4) Change the Inline Image Style to something like width:WidthIWant;height:HeightIWant;padding-right:5px;padding-bottom:5px;float:left;
5) Oh and set Ellipsis String to empty
The theory is that “stacked float lefts” should line up side by side, and then wrap onto the next line when there’s not enough space, which is a very flexible way of doing unordered arrays. The big issue here is ensuring there is no extra text. If the 0 works in step one, you should be able to get there.
One issue I found (and Yann has said he’ll fix this in the next release) is that some entries that “evaluate to false”, eg an empty string or a 0, are being ignored.
I imagine that this will be a whole lot easier after that update.
le 24 September 2010 à 7:14 h
Excellent ..!!!!!!!!
Finally I could block the line of the news below .. thank Y. DUBOIS.
The only thing that remains is that the photos will not be long, are somewhat distorted.
le 24 September 2010 à 7:15 h
I forgot, they see it is here: http://www.comfamiliar.org/
le 24 September 2010 à 7:26 h
The issue about the photos’ distortion is that your photos are not square, yet the style given to them is square (presumably the default). Ideally, we could specify a square thumbnail and choose suitable cropping, but that adds a whole new level of complexity and more work from us webmasters.
What I did on our website to allow for this was simply have a style of
width:auto; height:60px;
Then the photo adjusts accordingly and maintains the right aspect ratio.
Otherwise you’ll need to start providing a square pic as your first picture attached to the post.
le 24 September 2010 à 9:56 h
@Andrew
thanks for reponse. I’ll try your mentionned steps asap, I will post solution here if I find one !!!!
le 24 September 2010 à 15:57 h
130….
ok..gracias
le 24 September 2010 à 16:05 h
I think this is my last question …… as I change the color to the titles?
le 25 September 2010 à 1:18 h
@luchosar, on my site’s listing page (http://www.hallvet.com.au/about/most-recent-posts/), I would need to add CSS for
div.yp_rp_widget.ul.li.h4.a { color:#rrggbb; }
If you have UL turned off, the thing at the start might be different. Something like div.yp_rp_widget.li.h4.a
Luchosar, try the Developer Tools available in Opera, Chrome, Internet Explorer and/or FireFox (it stopped working in FF for me about six months ago, but the other browsers are all good. I really like Opera’s Dragonfly) Start poking about your website and looking at what styles are being used on which elements (most Developer tools will have a way to select an element and show in a separate window stuff like source HTML, CSS styling, layout attributes etc). Once you are used to doing that, you will find it very easy to add alterations to CSS in your style.css and make the page look exactly how you want it.
le 25 September 2010 à 1:23 h
Andrew, Muchas gracias.
le 25 September 2010 à 10:44 h
Yann – first, many thanks for making this plug-in. It’s excellent and adds real interest to the dull old Recent Posts widget. Your work is much appreciated.
I know that a great deal of time and effort goes into the development of plug-ins like these and if I were richer, I’d pay you for it. But it does say it’s free.
I don’t like advertising links to my plug-ins stuck on my site (yours is the first time it’s happened to me), so finding this ‘Featuring Recent Posts WordPress Widget development by YD’ in my footer was, I’m afraid, an unwelcome surprise. Sorry to be negative, but there it is.
le 25 September 2010 à 10:55 h
Me again with apologies – I’ve just found in the plug-in’s settings that it’s possible to disable that link. I didn’t see it before. Sorry not to keep the link, I’m just obsessive about the exact look of my site.
Keep up the great work and thank you again.
le 25 September 2010 à 16:24 h
This plugin is one of the best. Thank you! 🙂
le 26 September 2010 à 22:12 h
Why does the plugin give me a 404 error when ever I save it’s settings?
le 1 October 2010 à 10:50 h
[…] site ran flawlessly right away, with its 25 plugins including Wp Super Cache, the YD Recent Posts Widget and some other quite vintage legacy plugins that I can’t do without. I had no special […]
le 2 October 2010 à 3:34 h
Excellent plugin! I have a question… when I add the shortcode in my pages, the plugin forces itself to be on top all of the content. I have no idea how to make the plugin recent posts appear at the bottom of the page where I want it. So I have just opted to place the plugin at the top, but if I could, I would place it at the bottom. Any suggestions on what is going on?
le 3 October 2010 à 13:50 h
Installed the latest version and it doesn’t show any widget settings. Instead of showing this > http://www.yann.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/extended-panel.png it says that there are nor settings for the widget.
le 3 October 2010 à 14:04 h
Sorry, I take everything back what I just wrote. It is working like it should be. Thank you. 🙂
le 5 October 2010 à 20:26 h
Hi, I only want to show the last (newest) Post, how can I configure this?
le 6 October 2010 à 2:20 h
Hello – I use your Recent Posts, however I was hoping to add a 2nd widget directly under the current widget. So one could show recent posts within only 1 category but be excluded from the other widget. Is this possible?
le 6 October 2010 à 22:34 h
Hello, I am trying to get recent posts to show up on a ‘page’ and when I use shortcode, the page only shows the code:
[ yd_list_posts ]
not the recent posts.
Help.
le 6 October 2010 à 22:35 h
@Chris: there should be no space between the square brackets [ ] and the shortcode name.
le 6 October 2010 à 22:43 h
I have no spaces.
http://tinyurl.com/2b3oeyq
[yd_list_posts]
le 6 October 2010 à 22:55 h
@Chris: since you’re using WP3.0.1 this should work. If shortcodes are not activated by WP, it might be due to another plugin messing up things. Try de-activating other plugins one by one.
le 6 October 2010 à 23:15 h
any ideas which ones mess it up? I have so many plugins it is very hard to disable them.
le 7 October 2010 à 2:56 h
hi yann,
is there any way to output the post’s “excerpt” field in the widget if present, rather than the auto-generated excerpt?
le 7 October 2010 à 8:25 h
This could save a lot of frustration. inc/yd-rpw-widget.inc.php line somewhere around line 266:
le 7 October 2010 à 11:00 h
@Patrick: What about checking “Use WP excerpt field:” in the widget admin panel?
le 7 October 2010 à 11:02 h
@Shivanand Sharma
The way to fix the default_image bug while waiting for the next release of the plugin was already described in comment #52, above:
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4610
Thanks anyway!
le 7 October 2010 à 11:22 h
Ya… reinventing the wheel isn’t much fun though. The end is the worst when you discover you “reinvented”. 🙂
le 8 October 2010 à 2:01 h
thanks yann, totally missed that.
le 8 October 2010 à 2:09 h
Hi, I’m trying to use this plugin. I am inserting the code into my index.php file and it is displaying fine but i want to change the title which is currently “YD Recent Posts”. I have looked in the php files but have had no luck so far, can someone give me a hand please? Thanks!
le 8 October 2010 à 17:38 h
How could this be changed to show the most Recent MODIFIED Posts? instead of just Recent Posts.. We tend to modify our posts as updates adding to 1 post…??
Any help Please…
le 8 October 2010 à 19:41 h
your plugin does’t work on my site. i use the last version of wp, with featured images function. i can’t se either the thumbnails and the titles of my posts, selected by tag. where is the problem?
le 11 October 2010 à 12:30 h
Hello there, i installed your plugin but it seems that it doesn’t make any changes, in fact it makes them but if i have no image in my post it doesn’t take the default one and the text just scrambles, any idea why ?
le 11 October 2010 à 14:45 h
Thanks for a very thorough plugin! I have several issues that may be my WordPress setup and not your plugin. Any help would be appreciated:
I’m using Thesis 1.8b1 framework. YD v.3.0.1.
When “Update Plugin Settings” the page forwards to “404 page not found” and does not save changes I make.
le 12 October 2010 à 16:31 h
Bonjour Yann,
Tout d’abord, mes félicitations pour ce widget qui, sur le papier, semble très prometteur ! Je dis sur le papier, parce que :
1. J’ai installé et activé le plugin
2. J’ai glissé le widget dans mes 2 barres latérales (mon thème dispose d’une sidebar “accueil” et d’une sidebar “autres pages”)
3. Je ne vois pas le widget apparaître sur mon site (j’ai bien pensé à vider le cache), ni sur l’accueil, ni sur les autres pages.
Verrais-tu une explication ?
WordPress 3.0.1
Thème : Graphene
Cordialement,
Vincent.
le 12 October 2010 à 16:47 h
Question subsidiaire :
Je pense que dans la page des widgets, en cliquant sur la flèche à droite du bloc “YD Recent Posts”, on doit avoir accès à des options. Moi je n’en vois pas (je n’ai le choix qu’entre fermer et supprimer…). Est-ce normal ?
D’avance merci,
Vincent.
le 12 October 2010 à 16:50 h
@Vincent : je pense que vous utilisez le mauvais widget (YD Previous Posts au lieu de YD Recent Posts) – par ailleurs il vaut mieux poser les questions en français sur la page en français de l’extension : http://www.yann.com/fr/extensions-wordpress/yd-widget-billets-recents – Merci.
le 12 October 2010 à 17:37 h
Oh, I haven’t even noticed it was an english page. And you were right, I haven’t realized there was 2 different widhet in your plugin, YD Recent Posts and YD Previous Posts), Sorry, but thx for your quick answer.
le 14 October 2010 à 2:48 h
hello there, I really really like your plugin and it works very well except in my case the thumbnails only load when viewing a single post, otherwise many of the thumbnails are missing, do you know why this is?
le 17 October 2010 à 23:45 h
Your plugin is the best thing out there.
Question:
My post images are not part of the actual post, but uploaded as meta. How can I tell the plugin to get those images instead?
Thanks!
le 18 October 2010 à 23:37 h
Big Thanks for the plugins.
How to disable the cache?
I am blogging in multi-language, any cache will break the intended language link in widgets.
le 19 October 2010 à 6:03 h
Hi Yann,
I love your plug-in and I’m using it on my website. I just have a small problem with it. I have a static homepage and a blog and the plugin doesn’t seem to work on my blog. http://seoquickrank.com and http://seoquickrank.com/blog. How can i solve this problem? Thanks.
le 21 October 2010 à 7:01 h
I just installed your plugin while everything is working fine, there’s one “big” problem.
The space between the title – “Recent Posts” and the picture is really huge. It’s like the title is at the top of the page and the pictures start displaying at the bottom of the site.
You can see my site here http://hungryc.com.
I tried looking into the CSS, toggled every options and even tried increasing the size of my sidebar, none work. Please advise.
le 23 October 2010 à 23:41 h
Hi
I suddenly today lost all output from the widget.
I am in the process of debugging right now, and I have noticed that somehow there are now two instances of the recent posts widget installed.
The $wp_registered_widgets has the following registrations.
wydrp-1 (YD Recent Posts)
wydrp-2 (YD Recent Posts)
wydpp1 (YD Previous Posts)
I think this is the reason why the widgets stops outputting data, since the widget_yd_rp function does not handle parameters for more than one instance of wydrp well, so when it looks up the parameter position (2) it will not find any since it is not in the parameters. Thereby showing no output.
But I just do not understand why there suddenly are two instances of the wydrp widget installed. Please note that the sidebar_widgets record in the database only has one reference to YD Previous Posts.
So my installation is messed up somehow.
Do you know where I can remove this extra wydrp
le 25 October 2010 à 2:20 h
Beautiful work with the plugin! It’s very useful and it makes recent posts look great! Congratulations on a job well done.
Just one thing:
Installing the plugin places a link to this site a top every one of my web pages. This is extremely obtrusive. I’ll gladly tell all my friends about the plugin, but please, could you tell me how to remove it. It makes my website look nasty.
Thank you so much.
le 25 October 2010 à 11:16 h
@Peter
There’s an option to remove the link in the plugin’s settings page. This is explained in the option page, in previous questions on this page, and in the plugin’s official FAQ page. You could have at least checked before asking.
le 25 October 2010 à 19:23 h
@Y.Dubois
Was it really that hard to answer?!
le 25 October 2010 à 19:47 h
@Peter:
That’s not the point. The time I waste answering the same questions over and over again I don’t spend coding new features. By checking first if your question has not been answered before, you do yourself a favor, as a user of one of my free plugins. That’s the purpose of having a FAQ page. Is it really that hard to understand?!
le 26 October 2010 à 16:30 h
You answered my question on #52 about the default image issue in version 3.0.1, but when I make the change from the “i” to a “0” (number 0) I can no longer have access to my blog. I changed line 124 and tried it once with a text editor and also with Dreamweaver and the same thing happened. I am using WordPress.Org. Thank you for your help.
le 27 October 2010 à 0:52 h
I too am having trouble with syntax.
I wish to show posts/thumbs from only one category. I am using in the theme rather than widget.
The documentation states:
Custom WP Query parameters can be passed as the third argument to the function, like this:
<?php display_yd_recent_posts_here( '', '', '’ ) ?>
In my page template I have:
What extra do I need to put in here to display from one category only?
I tried this, but it didn’t work:
What do I need to use? I have tried with the recent posts in homepage on and off with no change.
Please help – I’ll donate handsomely for a fix.
le 29 October 2010 à 2:45 h
I really like the plug-in and wish to use it on my website, but for some reason I get a 404 error every time I attempt to change the settings. I looked through the FAQ but did not see anything addressing this issue. I also saw a couple other people had similar problems with this earlier in these comments but we not responded to. It may be a silly question but I just can’t figure out how to fix this. I set up the site on a local server on my laptop and the plug-in worked fine there. It was when I transferred everything to the actual web server that it stopped working properly and wouldn’t allow me to change the settings. A solution would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the plug-in, it’s great. Now I just hope to get it to work properly for me.
le 30 October 2010 à 18:12 h
Love this plugin!!! SO nice to find exactly what I needed for the website project and that it worked perfectly with no troubles! However, I did not like so much the sneaky footer code you place in the pages, because it ruined the look of my design. So, we removed that bit. But we made a donation, so hopefully that helps you forgive us for doing that? 🙂 Thanks again!
le 2 November 2010 à 5:29 h
Hi there,
I’m using your plugin/widget, everything works, incl. the default thumb fix of replacing ! with 0. I have a minor tweak question that has beein driving me nuts. When I make the thumbs take up the whole horizontal space with the text below rather than float left, there is an underline on the hover text that shows up above the text (or below/attached to the image?) that looks icky.
I specified the hover underline in my main theme stylesheet. when i try to default to not using it in the widget admin it messes up my thumbnails.
What line in the plugin’s css style sheet do I change, and what do I add, to either make the above-line on hover go away or remove the underline for this widget?
thank you!
m
le 3 November 2010 à 18:44 h
@CashMere:
You are perfectly entitled to remove the link (that’s why it can be done by just ticking the checkbox in the settings page). Thanks for the donation. You’re 100% forgiven for calling the link “sneaky” now 😉
le 4 November 2010 à 7:32 h
HELP! I tried andrew’s fix in php to get recent posts to appear at end of home page. which i must have done incorrectly -now i am stuck all i get is this error msg everywhere i go, cannot go in to uninstall plugin – public view does not appear at all, error msg.
cannot go back into that page to try to edit php either
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/nyseraph/public_html/angelaseyeonthehudsonvalley.com/wp-content/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/inc/yd-rpw-widget.inc.php on line 41
le 4 November 2010 à 7:39 h
totally crippled. cant get into any page 🙁 tell me i have to a restore. i’m about to cry. hours of work lost tonight.
le 4 November 2010 à 11:11 h
@Angela:
Don’t cry. Just erase the plugin files and your site will work again just as before. (erase the content of the yd-recent-posts-widget directory completely). You can then re-install the plugin from scratch and start over.
le 4 November 2010 à 21:10 h
thank you very much. all better. okay. i would like to reinstall it, but can someone give me (a techno dummy) more precise instruction as to exactly what and where one enters the change in precisely which php sheet so if i wish to use shortcode so as to display most recent posts on homepage only *after* featured posts i can do so? thank you very much.
le 4 November 2010 à 23:03 h
Just wanted to know I fixed my problem (the underline above the text on hover when i put the text under the image, which uses the full width of the sidebar column, instead of beside it), I had changed the image to float: center; I changed it back to float: left and it went away 🙂
le 5 November 2010 à 15:06 h
Bonjour,
merci pour votre travail.
Est-il possible de faire remonter une liste de tous les articles récents de tous les sous-sites (sous blogs) quand l’on est en configuration “WordPressMU” ?
Merci d’avance pour votre réponse..
le 5 November 2010 à 18:39 h
@Thierry:
Pour faire remonter une liste agrégée des sous-sites WordPress MU, le plus efficace est d’abord de créer un blog “virtuel” qui contient la copie de tous les articles de tous les blogs (un autre plugin WordPress s’occupe de ça); ensuite il faudrait modifier le plugin pour aller chercher les articles récents dans ce blog, ce qui est une modification relativement mineure. Il n’y a pas de façon simple et optimisée d’aller chercher en une seule requête l’ensemble des articles de tous les blogs qui sont ventilés dans des tables de base de données séparées, mais la méthode que je vous propose ci-dessus fonctionnera parfaitement, quelque soit le nombre de sous-blogs.
le 5 November 2010 à 23:53 h
Hello,
Thanks for a great plug-in! I’ve even started using it without thumbnails because I wanted a list of all posts without being restriced to the default eight.
My question is short and (I hope) new: is there a way I can change the order of the posts? So that the list is ascending instead of decending (or the other way around).
le 6 November 2010 à 13:05 h
@Kristina:
Try a custom query:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Order_Parameters
there is an “additional query parameters” field in the widget settings panel.
le 10 November 2010 à 2:13 h
Good day!
Thank you for a great plug-in!
How would I go about putting a border around the images themselves and not the container?
I modified the stylesheet, so now i have a border, more like a table with no top or bottom padding. I just want it to wrap the image thumbnails.
this is all I did:
yd_rp_widget img {
border: 4px solid #000000;
width:90px;
height: 90px;
float: left;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
le 10 November 2010 à 2:39 h
Nevermind!
I figured it out by way of margins and padding!
le 11 November 2010 à 0:44 h
Hello, and thanks for the plugin.
Is there a way for the plugin to display the shortcode I’m using in my posts?
I’m using this on the sidebar of my site, feeding in a post excerpt that is using shortcode.
le 11 November 2010 à 17:40 h
Hello,
I’m wondering why my default thumbnail is not appearing in the recent posts plugin. It seems that only when I attach an image to a post is that image being pulled in by your plugin.
I also have the Default image URL in the settings pointed to this thumbnail GIF but I’m still just seeing the post headlines in the image area.
Is there some additional code needed for the default post image to be displayed?
Thank you for your help!
le 12 November 2010 à 13:28 h
@Kon Def:
The default thumbnail issue is a known bug of this version of the plugin. Will be fixed in the next release. In the meantime, please look at the proposed fix in Comment # 52 above:
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4610
le 12 November 2010 à 14:08 h
@DCastillo:
The plugin does not render shortcodes. This could be an option in a future version.
le 12 November 2010 à 17:48 h
How to disable caching? I’m using YD recent posts and QTranslate..
Thanks for the answer!
le 14 November 2010 à 7:09 h
all.. help me… I Want use YD recent post twice in one webpage – widget.. ie : first widget I use tags : car and other widget I use tags : Bike… can I do that…?? plzz help
le 22 November 2010 à 11:13 h
Is it possible to display posts from a custom post type along with the nomal posts?
le 22 November 2010 à 17:06 h
I try to use this code on one of my pages: [yd_list_posts spec_query=’cat=15&showposts=2′] and it’s not working. I believe it is because of the ampersand and the way wordpress shows it? please help.
le 23 November 2010 à 1:41 h
Nadia, if it’s an ampersand issue, edit the page in HTML mode and see what it’s displaying. If it’s “& amp;” then you should be able to change it to a straight ampersand. I’ve hit this issue a few times when going back to edit a page in Visual mode and forgetting about the ampersands.
HTH
le 23 November 2010 à 17:01 h
I am aware when you go back and forth between HTML and visual view in wordpress it will change or even remove tags and special characters… I work only in HTML view and it [yd_list_posts spec_query=’cat=15&showposts=2′] still doesn’t work 🙁 Although when I do [yd_list_posts spec_query=’cat=15] it will show all posts in this category.
le 24 November 2010 à 1:41 h
Now that you mention it, I remember having trouble with displaying a small number of posts. I seem to have recorded in my internal documentation having used posts_per_page and yet I have nothing about showposts, which seems to indicate I had some trouble with it.
Documentation of query_posts at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts seems to indicate that showposts is deprecated in favour of posts_per_page
Have you tried experimenting with posts_per_page=2 ?
HTH
A
le 24 November 2010 à 1:58 h
I just did a little more homework. It appears that Yann uses WP_Query, but I expect the parameters mentioned are the same as in query_posts.
le 24 November 2010 à 5:59 h
Hi,
I’m having the exact same problem as David Radovanovic above – but I didn’t see an answer.
When I’m in the wordpress admin and try to make any changes to the setting and Update Plugin Setting – I get the error message with access forbidden.
This only started happening after updating to WP 3.01 and updating to the latest version of the plugin
le 24 November 2010 à 11:36 h
@Barbara:
Access forbidden when submitting change probably has something to do with your server’s security settings. Modules such as Apache mod_security, when setup too tight, will prevent settings to be transmitted. You should check with your hosting service.
le 24 November 2010 à 12:02 h
@Nadia & Andrew:
You found a bug. It will be fixed in the next release of the plugin. In the meantime here is how to fix it manually:
edit the file inc/yd-rpw-widget.inc.php in hte plugin folder.
On line # 175 please change this line:
$wp_query_string = $spec_query;
to this:
$wp_query_string = html_entity_decode( $spec_query );
This will fix the issue with the ampersand (&) being html-encoded by the WordPress shortcode argument routines.
le 24 November 2010 à 17:43 h
I’m actually using the previous posts widget instead of recent posts…
But I would like to alter it a bit.. Show more posts and such. How can I do that?
Allt the best, Sanna
le 24 November 2010 à 18:58 h
@Sanna:
The previous posts widget is not very well maintained right now and it does not have any customization feature (not many people use it). I might decide to upgrade it a bit in a future version of the plugin. However, most of what this widget was meant to do can be achieved with the recent posts widget using a custom query. If you still want to alter it you’ll have to mess with the plugin’s PHP code.
le 24 November 2010 à 19:03 h
Thanks for the reply, but I’m not sure I explained properly. The code was working perfectly, on this exact same host, for over a year – UNTIL i upgraded to WP 3.01 and the latest version of your code.
No permissions have changed – it simply stopped working as soon as I upgraded.
Is there someplace in the code I can address this? If not, then I won’t be able to utilize this plugin.
Thanks,
Barbara
le 24 November 2010 à 21:17 h
thank you, Yann! Looks like your fix for ampersand issue is working so far pretty good.
le 26 November 2010 à 9:38 h
Hi,
Is it possible to insert the author name of each post in the YD Recent Posts Widget?
le 26 November 2010 à 11:30 h
@Erik: not right now.
le 26 November 2010 à 22:54 h
hi, is it possible to put the date after title in div tags?
i would try the workaround Swami Ghee suggested but i don’t know where to look for the document.ready jquery block.
le 29 November 2010 à 16:31 h
Hi,
I love this plugin but i have searched through the FAQ and all the comments on the site.. I’ve seen this question asked at least 5 or 6 times without an answer:
If I use the shortcode it always appears at the top left of my contect page… how can I make it appear at the bottom or middle for example? Please assist, as I can see a lot of others are trying unsuccesfully to figure this out..
Thanks and keep up the great work!
le 29 November 2010 à 16:37 h
@Adam:
Hi, you are right that the question has been asked quite a few times, and to my knowledge it has also been answered a few times. Please look here for the quick bug fix:
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4805
le 30 November 2010 à 18:36 h
Nice plugin. However, when trying to change the settings page it doesn’t write changes to database and brings me (refreshes) to a 404 page in the front-end. I tried to bypass the interface and find the setting in the database and I’m not too sure which setting to change, i.e.
… “timthumb_width”;i:60;s:15:”timthumb_height”;i:60;s:11:”use_wpthumb”;i:1;}
so I left it alone. Any suggestions? Thanks.
le 1 December 2010 à 11:26 h
David, I am having the same issue and trying to resolve it. Hoping to find a solution soon.
le 1 December 2010 à 12:29 h
@Matt & David:
This is strange. It might be related to some specific security setting on your server or hosting plan. I believe the solution would be to switch from sending the settings changes as a GET http request to sending them as a POST. That involves changing the form tag and the settings variables. I plan on doing this change in the next version of the plugin.
@David:
You found the right option in the database. The data is serialized so it’s a bit tricky to change it by hand. If you tell me exactly what you want to change I can probably give you the complete option string.
le 1 December 2010 à 12:59 h
I would like to use thimthumb [to reduce images and crop to the default size size of 60 x 60]. FYI, the problem with the default thumb settings is that the images have been re-sized out of their original proportions, either squishing or elongating them.
le 1 December 2010 à 15:43 h
I’d like to truncate the h4 headings as well to 8 words or around 35 characters and excerpt to the same. Thanks for your help!!
le 1 December 2010 à 15:55 h
Half way there: changing method to “post” refreshes the same page though the settings are not saved.
le 1 December 2010 à 16:03 h
@David
You should then change all $_GET[…] variables to $_POST[…]
le 1 December 2010 à 16:16 h
Merci!!!! It works great. Beautiful. Did you receive my merger donation yet? Thanks!
le 1 December 2010 à 16:28 h
meager
le 1 December 2010 à 16:30 h
@David: I did. Way better than nothing. Thank you very much.
le 8 December 2010 à 19:28 h
Bonjour,
Super plugin, je l’utilise pour un site de publication d’article et je voudrais que dans les extrait s’affiche les liens contenu dans le post mais apparement celui ci est enlevé.
Comment pourrais je faire pour qu’ils s’affichent ?
le 8 December 2010 à 19:49 h
@Christophe :
Merci de poster les questions en français sur la page française du plugin, ici :
http://www.yann.com/fr/extensions-wordpress/yd-widget-billets-recents
Essayez de cocher la case “Garder le code HTML dans l’extrait :” dans les options.
le 8 December 2010 à 22:30 h
Great plugin, but…..
I am having the same issue as David and Matt. I am unable to change the settings on the plugin’s admin page. When I click to save the settings the or clear the cache the page is redirected to a 404.
Any ideas on how to correct this issue.
le 9 December 2010 à 18:02 h
look at the fix above
le 10 December 2010 à 18:19 h
Hello, i’m trying to use previous posts feature but it shows the same posts as on my homepage, is there any solution to solve this problem?
le 11 December 2010 à 12:46 h
[…] 29) YD Recent Posts il plugin che inserisce nella sidebar un widget con I post più recenti corredati di imagine thumbnail – http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget […]
le 13 December 2010 à 7:42 h
I have tried to adjust settings so plugin won’t “skip the latest post” on the home page. However when i attempt to save it fails and displays the following mesage:
Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/options-general.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at gourmandeinthekitchen.com Port 80
Is this a “bug”?
le 13 December 2010 à 9:00 h
I’ve been having distortion problems with my thumbnail and the solution to change the css style to width:auto doesn’t work for me.
My thumbs are 120 x 60, but they are being distorted. ANy other solution?
Thanks.
le 13 December 2010 à 9:01 h
HI David, Mat, and Yan,
I have changed all varibles from GET to POST in yd-rpw-display.inc.php but still getting the
==========
Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/options-general.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at gourmandeinthekitchen.com Port 80
==========
I also went in and commented out the line
$newvalue[0][‘skip_latest’] = 0;
But still no sucess.
le 13 December 2010 à 11:46 h
@Tim
This is certainly not a bug with the plugin. It looks like your server’s configuration is too restrictive. You should check with your system administrator.
le 13 December 2010 à 11:46 h
@Coach Nick
Are you using Timthumb?
le 13 December 2010 à 14:12 h
hi the widget is not skipping posts that are on the homepage
le 13 December 2010 à 18:25 h
Hello,
thank you for your great widget!
Unfortunately the widget disappears from the widget list if I use it once.
I would like to use the widget several times.
I’ve seen that I’m not the only person having this problem. Did anybody fix it?
Thank you
le 13 December 2010 à 19:32 h
Yes you are right Yan, it was a server problem on my side. Great plugin!
le 14 December 2010 à 7:19 h
@ Andrew.
Hi. Please could you post your link with passable parameters? This would be really useful information. Thanks a mil.
Ray.
le 14 December 2010 à 14:19 h
Ray-zin, I’m not sure what you’re after.
Yann gave a link to what can be passed to query_posts.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
These can all be put in spec_query if you’re using the short code, or “Additional Query Parameters” if you’re using the widget.
HTH.
le 19 December 2010 à 17:18 h
hello yann,
first specially thanks for YD Recent Posts Widget
its very very usefull for me.
second, how to customize it when:
if post from cat ID = 3, then widget show only posts from cat ID = 3
and when post from cat ID – 4, then widget show only posts from cat ID = 4.
its urgent for me.
at end i am sorry for sending this message in another post.
tnx a lot
le 21 December 2010 à 0:27 h
@Iranium
You cannot do that with the widget.
You could do it with the template function, but it is not easy because of caching issues.
le 21 December 2010 à 16:13 h
Hi Yann, firstly thanks for developing such an awesome plugin! It was working brilliantly well until I changed my wordpress install directory and now it keeps trying to display the post images from the old uploads folder, how can I force it to update the image paths to the new uploads location?
Thanks, Rob
le 23 December 2010 à 2:56 h
I am working on setting up a site with WordPress 3.0.3 and Atahualpa 3.5.3 and YD Recent Posts with thumbnails 3.0.1. Tests fine and looks great in Firefox and Chrome but in IE7 when you scroll the page down the text links in your plug-in disappear (go white). They reappear when you hover over them (but only over the exact lettering).
When you scroll up to the top again, the text reappears. Very odd.
Have you ever experienced this before, and can you help me?
Thanks
Steve
le 23 December 2010 à 14:54 h
I
I would like to put an extra menu with the latest post, but without the text, only the pics. I have tried this, but does not work:
Can anyone say me how should I pass the parameters???
Thanks
le 23 December 2010 à 18:56 h
the code does not appear. I have tried a lot of things, but it seems weird.
Could anyone help me.
I think it should be something like:
display_yd_previous_posts_here( ‘display_post_title=0’, ”, ” )
any help???
le 29 December 2010 à 21:26 h
any news about showing also the author’s name is the results?
le 29 December 2010 à 22:13 h
and if i click “Skip latest posts on home page:” it will allways skip the 10 first posts but in my case homepage has 20 posts. How can i change this please?
le 31 December 2010 à 9:51 h
I, too, am seeing the default image missing despite adding the code fix. 🙁
I tried to do a workaround by using another plugin to assign a default image to any posts that did not have one. Then I realized that it’s not pulling my WordPress thumbnails, it’s making its own. (Correct?)
Is there a way to direct it to the WordPress thumbnails (which I set up to be automatically generated)?
le 31 December 2010 à 19:02 h
How do i get the thumbnail to work with videos?
le 1 January 2011 à 18:53 h
Hey
I would love to be able to use this widget but is it possible to display the thumbnails in rows? Say 4 rows of 3 thumbnails. No title or other text, just the thumbnails?
thanks for any help on this.
chris
le 1 January 2011 à 18:55 h
@Chris:
Yes, many people use it in a row-display setup, and it is possible to display only the thumbs.
le 1 January 2011 à 19:01 h
Thanks for the quick reply. Is the row-display setup in the settings somewhere that im missing? or else would you be able to point me in the right direction?
thanks
chris
le 1 January 2011 à 19:09 h
I will happily donate to be able to use this widget to display thumbs in rows of 4 images per row.
le 1 January 2011 à 19:10 h
Ok, I finally got mine working.
To fix the default image problem, I used a plug-in that assigns a default image when there’s no image to create a thumbnail from. Then I had to (oddly) uncheck the option for using WordPress 2.9+ thumbnails.
Then to put it as a feature on the page rather than in the sidebar, I had to download a plugin that allowed me to create a dynamic sidebar anywhere on the page. I put the sidebar under the posts on the homepage, and then stuck this widget in there.
Success! 🙂
le 2 January 2011 à 23:22 h
Id for especific category, how i can do it?
le 3 January 2011 à 13:15 h
Hi Yann
I havent heard from you, can you confirm you received my email and donation??
chris
le 4 January 2011 à 3:30 h
@macafagi
This question is often asked, and has been answered, but for visibility I’ll mention the answer here.
If using the shortcode, include spec_query=’cat=##’ where ## is the category number of the category you want to include.
(You find the number by clicking Admin | Posts | Categories | the-category-you-are-interested-in and then looking in the address bar for the number of the category).
In the widget, it’s “Additional query parameters”.
@rebecca
I don’t think yd_recent_posts works well with the new “featured image” thing. I do have Use WP2.9+ post thumbnails turned on, but have trouble if I actually set an image in a post to be the featured image.
@Chris
If using the shortcode, use these parameters.
# display_thumb – if 0, will suppress the display of a thumbnail
# display_post_title – if 0, will suppress the display of a listed post’s title
# display_date – if 1, will display the listed post’s date
# date_format – PHP date format string Untested
# display_excerpt – if 0, will suppress an excerpt of the post
NB: this may not work due to an oversight in the code which uses the wrong test for whether a parameter has been set.
I don’t know how all the other users who are using this do it.
Maybe just setting the widget is enough. There are boxes to turn off post title and post excerpt. (You might also need to turn of ol/ul in the main setting). Then it’s just a matter of setting up an appropriate style. I think float:left will automatically stack images horizontally.
HTH,
A
le 4 January 2011 à 3:39 h
@chris
Ignore the date_format in the above list. It’s irrelevant to your question.
@macafagi
You can also read
http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4856
and try category_name
le 5 January 2011 à 1:40 h
Hello! Love the plug-in. Posted this over below the FAQs but that page ain’t gettin’ no action! So forgive me for putting it over here, too.
I am trying to make two simple (I think!) modifications:
– I want a br between the Date and the Title. Just want them on separate lines.
– I want to take out the “Continue” at the end. I already have a style (“read more”) and was going to enter that in the Ellipsis string.
You can see it here (middle bottom, “From the Blog”.)
http://deliberateproductions.com/
Thanks SO much!
le 7 January 2011 à 21:30 h
Hi, you mention in a post about 6 up from this one quoted
“@Chris:
Yes, many people use it in a row-display setup, and it is possible to display only the thumbs.”
How is this done?
thanks,
Rick
le 7 January 2011 à 23:02 h
I had the plugin working.
When you add a widget it pulls up a screen that allows you to change settings for the widget and to place the widget in a certain order in the sidebar. At first the settings said that this widget has no options. But the plugin worked and I saw my posts in my sidebar with thumbnails.
Then after awhile I deactivated the widget to try something else and when I went back to activate it I now had many different setting to change in order to customize the widget. I added a title and other information but when I click save the widget did not work.
So I tried the widget on another blog of mine and the same thing happened.
Maybe I am feeling out the settings form wrong. I don’t know.
If you have an example image of how to fill out the settings that would help or if you know what I am doing wrong.
~Garret
Thanks
le 8 January 2011 à 18:21 h
any info about my requests?
Skip latest posts on home page:” it will allways skip the 10 first posts but in my case homepage has 20 posts.”.
and display author’s name in the posts
do you have a paypal adress ?
thank you
le 10 January 2011 à 15:29 h
Salut!
I have the widget installed with the setting to display thumbnails, if there are any. The problem though is that when a post doesn’t contain an image, the widget outputs the title as an alt-text and this results in: Title/Date/Title.
Is this a setting issue I’ve missed out on or is it a bug?
Merci en avance,
George
le 11 January 2011 à 9:33 h
I hope I receive an answer. I want only 6 posts to be displayed and is not changing. I cleared the cache but it doesnt seem to work. How can I at least hard coded the request?
le 13 January 2011 à 4:01 h
Hi Mate, I can translate the plugin for Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, it is almost the same language and we all get it, exYugoslavia. If you want please drop me an e-mail. 🙂
le 16 January 2011 à 0:36 h
I found a little quirk in the plugin today.. When you’re on the widgets page, if you have accessibility mode enabled, the RECENT posts widget doesn’t work, but the PREVIOUS posts one does. If you disable accessibility by clicking screen options on the top right next to help, then the plug in works.. this may solve quite a few problems I have seen in these comments.
My problem at this point is getting the default image to work.. It worked in previous posts with accessibility on.. It’s not working on recent posts with it off… HELP?
le 17 January 2011 à 13:55 h
If anyone can help Im trying to rezise the thumbnails and place margins betwen them. Im calling the thumbnails using the php call inside a page and its using the default stylesheet for everything except the image resizing and individual image margins.
heres the site : mjbox.info
any suggestions greatly appreciated
le 22 January 2011 à 2:47 h
I continue to love your excellent plugin. Just wondering… how would I display the number of comments (in brackets) in the sidebar? It would be a nice option as it gives incoming readers glancing at the sidebar an idea of how “popular” the post might be… Could increase click-through.
le 26 January 2011 à 4:52 h
I am using this plug in and it works just fine to display either one categorie or all catagories but I would like it to display all but one category. In the querry parameters I can put category_name=’dating’ and it will work just fine but if I try to add category_name=’dating’, ‘education’ it will not work. I’ve tried category_name=dating and it works but not category_name=dating,education
Any tips would be nice. I have 8 categories and only want it to show recent post from 7.
le 26 January 2011 à 5:33 h
Never mind – I got it with cat=6,9,4,8,5,7,3 by using numbers instead of slugs
le 26 January 2011 à 11:50 h
@Christina:
To exclude just one cat, you can use the minus sign: cat=-1 for example.
le 29 January 2011 à 1:15 h
this is a great plugin! and thanks so much for all the tips here, I was able to change the default size of the thumbnail!! awesome!
le 29 January 2011 à 22:48 h
Great plug-in… been using it for the past year to display interviews. Unfortunately when I up graded my version of WP the plug-in stopped working. However, I was able to re-install it and everything looks good except one minor issue. My text doesn’t wrap (right) around the thumbnail anymore like it once did. Now I’m new to this and my web guys set this plugin up for me originally so I’m wondering what I need to do to get this fixed.
Please help if possible – I know this is such an amateur question that probably anyone can help me out with.
le 30 January 2011 à 0:23 h
Is there a way to edit this plugin to show all post from sub blogs on a multi site network with wordpress 3.0.4?
le 30 January 2011 à 17:39 h
Just a note:
YD Recent Posts Widget seems to work fine in WP 3.1!
Thanks
le 30 January 2011 à 22:16 h
hey
how do i unsubscribe to the email updates?
regards
le 1 February 2011 à 13:12 h
It works fine but thumbs are not displaying
le 1 February 2011 à 18:13 h
I too get a 404 error when trying to update the settings.
le 2 February 2011 à 1:39 h
Great plugin and i was able to implement this on http://silentchakra.com/.
le 3 February 2011 à 7:59 h
hey the plugin sounds intersting bt m having some problem in showing of widget im my site…
i installed yhe plugin and activated it
i have dragged the yd recent posts widget in the sidebar option and refreshed my site but its not showing in the site
may be their is a problem in filling the details in widget by clicking the small arrow in the right side..
please let me know what to write in each column…
it’ll be great help
le 4 February 2011 à 7:46 h
I’m having a real tough time getting the thumbnails to display in a horizontal row in the body of my index page.
I’d like to have 4 on a row, with just the title beneath the thumbnail, but after hours of playing with the css, I can’t seem to make it work.
Can you help?
le 5 February 2011 à 6:14 h
please reply sir…
le 6 February 2011 à 15:42 h
Hi,
I’d like to know how to format position and typography of date title and excerpt without messing the code…
Especially in the title, i’d like to make a br html code after the date…. I tried but I’m worry about ruin the code! 🙂
le 7 February 2011 à 16:50 h
@Ishan:
go to Settings > YD Recent Posts on click on the “Reset plugin settings” button, then try again.
le 8 February 2011 à 7:33 h
great plug in! I have one problem though. My first recent thumbnail is smaller than the others. I’ve tried to reset and update the plugin but it doesn’t get fix. Plz help 🙂
le 8 February 2011 à 11:27 h
@Tes: This cannot possibly be related to the plugin itself. You have to search the CSS stylesheet of your theme for code that styles the first image differently. (maybe search for ‘first-child’)
le 12 February 2011 à 22:30 h
Hello,
i tried to use plugin, and have one question. If in post is no image, plugin use default. I tried to change default image in setting page but no effect. Default image remain. Is it possible to change icon or it is only one choice to use default?
thanks
le 15 February 2011 à 15:56 h
Great plugin, but I had to take it down due to all of the bugs. I see in your posts here that you’ve fixed many of them, but there hasn’t been an update in 6 months. Any word on when you’ll be updating the plugin with the bug fixes mentioned here?
le 20 February 2011 à 18:07 h
Hi, I’m from Brazil.
I’ld like to translate (and maintain it in future releases) your plugin into Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR).
I have experience in translating four WordPress plugins:
Bulk Delete by Sudar Muthu
Bulk Move by Sudar Muthu
Easy ReTweet by Sudar Muthu
Localize WordPress by Stas Suscov
Please, contact.
le 22 February 2011 à 4:18 h
Hi,
I am running your plugin and have come across a problem…
If I make a post and then decide that I didn’t actually want that post and then delete it. It still seems to show in the list of recent posts?
Is there away to refresh it? or refresh my server or something? I’ve tried refreshing the page and also using a different browser, same problem. Still shows the deleted post in the list of recent posts?
Basically I just want it to show recent posts that actualy exsist!?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Merci
le 22 February 2011 à 4:57 h
Please ignore the previous comment. It has been solved by a factor known as time?!
10mins or so later it just seemed to update itself, must be something to do with the server as I tried more than one browser and hit refresh many times.
Thanks.
le 22 February 2011 à 21:20 h
When I change the featured image in a particular blog entry the thumbnail size of that image will not display in recent posts, only the original size of the image. If I do not choose a featured image it shows up fine. Can you help me figure out what I am doing wrong?
Thanks so much,
Anne
le 24 February 2011 à 17:51 h
Hello,
thank you for your great widget!
Unfortunately the widget disappears from the widget list if I use it once.
I would like to use the widget several times.
I’ve seen that I’m not the only person having this problem. Did anybody fix it?
Thank you
le 24 February 2011 à 18:49 h
Hi , i’ ve my home.php with only one post showing, and yd recent post at the bottom of the page,but it won’t skip my last post on home , and if i ‘ve checked option “skip latest posts in homepage” it skips 10 post (just like the reading option setting in wp general settings. any advice? thanks yamn….
le 27 February 2011 à 21:46 h
Hello Yann, thanks for this awesome plugin. I wish I could compensate you more that I’m able by now! My question is: is there any possibility to show the recent post in a dropdown menu that shows at first sight only 10 posts and then another 10 hidden posts? is also possible to display it horizontal? Thank you for all your time and kind support in advance.
Regards,
RYE.-
le 1 March 2011 à 3:51 h
Great job, love it ! Any news about an update (title nd date on the same line) 🙂 ?
le 1 March 2011 à 10:37 h
@Tibo
I have been quite busy lately, I have to give priority to paying customers. I will update the very popular YD Recent Posts plugin as soon as I can but I cannot give a date right now. The next update will be a major rewrite, and it takes a few days of work to do it and then test the plugin thoroughly.
le 1 March 2011 à 13:39 h
Well – still no good solution for the shortcode displaying the listing always on top!
The tipp in comment 86 DOES NOT solve the problem. Although commenting out the line in yd-rpw-widget.inc.php does really put the listing in the right place, but then the widget does NOT work anymore !!!!
So – PLEASE – we need a proper solution!!!
Thanks in advance …
le 1 March 2011 à 17:53 h
Hello,
I got a solution for the problem when the widget disappears from the widget list if you use it once.
I installed the plugin “WP PHP widget” and integrate e. g.
It works wonderful, because you can use the widget “WP PHP widget” several times. It’s a nice workaround 😉
Greez
Tom
le 2 March 2011 à 5:06 h
I am having an issue with the plugin. Each time I create a post, I now have to set a featured image and clear cache in YD recent posts admin page in order for the thumbnail to show up. The plugin was working perfectly up until a few weeks ago. Any suggestions? Thank you for offering the plugin!
le 3 March 2011 à 9:11 h
great pluging.
just what im looking for to show images in recent posts list.
still trying to get the list of post to changes .
ohh well back to the FAQ’s
le 3 March 2011 à 18:11 h
Bonjour Dubois, quoi de neuf? I installed the YD widget but it is not working. Absolutely nothing shows up except for the widget title. I am using wordpress version 3.1. What could be causing this? Any usual suspects? Merci pour ton aide.
le 4 March 2011 à 3:59 h
Hi, nice plugin! I would like to use it more times in the same page, as I have to create a magazine site, so I want to create a widget area with latest sport news, one with politics news, one for music news and so on. I want to add them through the widget, but once inserted it is no more available. Am I wrong? What to do, since the boy who will update the site is not so skilled while the widget is so easy to use. Thank you for your answer.
le 4 March 2011 à 23:18 h
Hello Yann. Is there a way to show image from custom field as thumbnail? I am running video blog and do not include any images to the post, just plain video player. Instead link to the video thumbnail is in custom field.
Thanks for help!
le 6 March 2011 à 6:58 h
Great plugin! Thank you!
I have installed the plugin and activated it. Checked out the settings. Then went to the plugins page and dragged the plugin to the sidebar. But when I clicked on the arrow, it said “There are no options for this widget”.
What am I doing wrong?
thank you!
le 6 March 2011 à 22:32 h
Hi. I love our widget. It is the only one of its kind that works well. Is there any way to get multiple instances of it on a site? Thanks so much. I intend to contribute.
le 7 March 2011 à 22:35 h
Hi Yann: Magically, or probably I just missed it, i have multiple instances of your terrific plugin. thanks for your help.
le 9 March 2011 à 17:35 h
Hi,
Love your plugin. Only problem is when my post is not having images, the default image is not showing.
Can you please help me?
Thanks
le 10 March 2011 à 1:13 h
I’m working on a site and find your plugin very useful. The only problem I have is that no matter what I do I can’t get the default thumbnail option working. The source code shows:
and the image field is there, but without image.
Please, help
le 10 March 2011 à 17:31 h
Hi, great works with this plugin.
I have some problems. I setted a static page (as a home page) and I use the widget logic plugin. If I put in the widget logic the function is_home() or the function is_front_page() I cannot view the plugin only in home page as I want.
Also I put the function in the code, but I cannot view the date in the plugin and there are other difference about my setting.
Can you help me?
Thanks.
le 12 March 2011 à 2:22 h
Hi Coco.
I still have the same problem with instances, you had. After having used it once in a sidebar, the widget is no more available for other instances. What to do? I had no answers, the plugin is so nice and I have to use it several times in the same page. Thank you so much.
le 17 March 2011 à 18:25 h
I looked everywhere and can’t find the solution. I am using [yd_list_posts spec_query=’category_name=polls’] on one of my pages and it display the list of polls just fine in Firefox. When I look at it in IE and Safari it will display question mark or img tag not found. My poll posts don’t have images attached to them or featured images. Help?
le 21 March 2011 à 20:12 h
I’ve use your great plugin in my website thebestfilms.net
I have 1 question.
Is it possible to set the thumbnail to display in gridview (gallery style)?
Thank you.
le 23 March 2011 à 10:38 h
Hi
I have my blog here. http://donatellodoors.com/blog/ and installed latest version of YD latest post plugin in my WP3.0.5.. But it’s not showing me any latest post at home page.. instead it showing me your back link and YD latest post title.. Can you please let me know what may be the issue is? I have cleared cache serveral times.. is there any folder needs write permission?
I have my another blog which i installed YD latest post plugin working without issues.. http://www.freshorganicliving.com/blog/
I look forward to your support soon.
Thanks
Venki. N
le 29 March 2011 à 20:14 h
Hi, i’m using your plugin on my first wordpress, i am trying to make rows of 3 or more thumbnails without text. Someone mentionned shortcodes. But is there a Css way of doing this? or a simpler way of doing this?
le 29 March 2011 à 21:16 h
@Gabber: you can do it with CSS. Shortcode has nothing to do with it. Please look at former comments and the FAQ. Examples of row implementation have already been given.
le 29 March 2011 à 21:24 h
No way to make the plugin work with more instances with WordPress 3.1?
le 29 March 2011 à 22:38 h
@Angioletto: sorry, that feature does not work right now. It needs a complete rewriting of the plugin. I need to find time for that but I’m too busy on paid-for work right now. It’s on the top of my future features list though.
le 30 March 2011 à 18:21 h
Hi there,
Great plugin, but where abouts is the piece of code that specifies the DEFAULT number of posts to display? (Which appears to be set to 5?)
In context, I am using the code within a page template.
le 30 March 2011 à 19:35 h
I don’t remember well but I think it is using the overall blog setting of posts per page (you can change it in the blog admin in Settings > Reading)
le 7 April 2011 à 12:28 h
Hello,
This plugin is great. Just what I need. But there is one problem.
I want to show the widget multiple times on my website. In My sidebar I want to use it for more categories and show the latest posts form each category.
Example: NEWS and show the 5 latest news items. Underneath that MUSIC and show the latest music posts.
The problem is that I can not use the widget twice. Is there a solution for this?
I really hope you can help me.
le 7 April 2011 à 12:31 h
@Bart: right now this plugin does not support multiple widgets. Sorry. This is a much requested feature but I did not find time to work on this plugin recently.
le 7 April 2011 à 12:49 h
Thank you for the fast answer.
One more question. I checked the Use same settings on other pages box. But while my forntpage widget is showing the selected category I put in the parameters, the other pages just show all the latest posts.
Is there a way to fux this and keep the widget showing only the selected category on all pages
le 7 April 2011 à 13:38 h
Sorry to bother you so much. But is it also possible to just show all the lasts post, and not starting at the post that is not on the forntpage anymore?
le 11 April 2011 à 14:00 h
thanks yann, i just found your plugin, it is very usefull and can be very stylish with css. I use this, and i m happy 🙂
le 11 April 2011 à 16:59 h
Whenever I hit the update plugin settings, reset plugin settings, and the clear settings button, i get a 404. BTW, I just upgraded to 3.1.1.
Any thoughts?
le 13 April 2011 à 1:51 h
Love this plugin, as we are beginning to implement it with a Pods/ Easy Columns/ Widgets on Pages solution on some of our sites.
I do have a question, which is probably just me overlooking something or being silly about my PHP. I’m displaying the date and post title only. I needed to edit the yd-rpw-widget.inc.php file to display the date first, no “:”, line break, then the post title. Got most of that editing lines 280-300, clearing the cache etc etc. I can not, for the life of me, get a break or new line to work between the date and title. Is this something you can tell me how to do?
Thanks!
le 16 April 2011 à 0:40 h
Hi Yann: Your plugin is working just great. I have one question. On one of my entries, I have 3 images. I hoped that the first one would be the thumbnail image, but it is picking one of the other images as the thumbnail. Any suggestions as to how to specifically identify the image to display in the thumbnail?
Thanks,
Coco
le 20 April 2011 à 14:23 h
Hi,
I am using the plugin. Thanks for the plugin. I use a theme where a custom field can be defined for showing a thumbnail of a image on the post.
Can you please let me know if there is any way we can use this custom field and show the same thumbnail image on the Recent posts plugin too?
Right now if thee are no images in the post, even though there is a thumbnail image the recent post widged is not showing any.
I appreciate your help in this regard.
Regards,
Aravind D
le 22 April 2011 à 9:17 h
Hi
I have just installed your plugin and cannot thank you enough for this wonderful work. As is evident, it’s a function much needed and appreciated by many, many people.
I have a question in regards to the ability of the plugin to do something and would really appreciate your advice.
I have four widget areas on the main section on the homepage and would like to have each widget showing the latest posts from a different category.
Please let me know if this is possible and how I can do this.
le 26 April 2011 à 23:55 h
Hi Yann,
Great plugin! Can you please let me know why the thumbnails are showing up blank?
Please see:
http://justonecookbook.com/blog/recipes/2011/02/page/2/
They are mostly fine on the home page http://justonecookbook.com/blog.
Thank you
le 1 May 2011 à 18:09 h
First i must say Extra plugin! Love it!
Now… I know this is the stupid question but I can not figure it out.
Where is the Additional query parameters field? In Recent Images widget i have only name field. Im so confused right now :S..
le 6 May 2011 à 4:03 h
How can I set up the plugin to show the recent posts in two columns?
Please!
And why it is possible to add only one widget of recent posts to sidebar? My template supports widgets for below-header area and footer. I’d like to show the recent posts in both!
Please help!
le 6 May 2011 à 9:40 h
@Luka : are you using YD Recent Images or YD Recent Posts? YD Recent Images does not provide an additional query parameters field. This is the support page for YD Recent Posts.
le 6 May 2011 à 9:45 h
@Eugeny: the plugin does not support multi-instances. Did not find time nor budget to re-engineer it yet.
le 6 May 2011 à 17:41 h
@Y.Dubois: How to make plugin to show the recent posts in 2 or 3 or 4 different columns? Thanks
le 7 May 2011 à 12:20 h
Thank you for this plugin!
I have only one wish:
Is there any way to disable the cache? I use multi language site, and this one widget can not be translated.
I would like to use this plugin but without cache.
le 10 May 2011 à 22:01 h
Cool plugin! Is there a way to control the length of the post headline through the shortcode or any other way?
le 16 May 2011 à 19:09 h
i am using your plugin to display thumbnails
i insert 12 post everyday
i have customised thr post order with custom post order plugin
the problem is it is showing post 11 and post 12 in the sidebar on the frontpage and when i click on post 11 or 12 on sidebar then it displays next 10 post in the sidebar.
i have setted it to display 12 post in widget settings but still it is showing me this problem
any help?
le 17 May 2011 à 6:08 h
Thanks, very useful plugin. I think it will make more page views for my site !
Kent
le 17 May 2011 à 9:00 h
My excerpt doesn’t work.
I’m using
Where would I write the excerpt command?
Thank you,
Sandra
le 17 May 2011 à 9:05 h
That was: I’m using the php-code
php display_yd_previous_posts_here( 10 )
le 19 May 2011 à 2:43 h
Great plugin. I am trying to change the color of the display block for the post titles in the css edit page and cannot figure out how to do it. Any ideas? Currently it shows up bluish like my other title bars. I want to make it white.
le 24 May 2011 à 8:43 h
Hello. First, I want to say that this is exactly the plugin I need. The options and customization are perfect for what I want to do, however…
I am getting the same 403 error that a few other people have had. I can’t seem to correct the problem. I can’t figure out which permissions need to be changed on my server in order to fix this.
The plugin works beautifully, I just can’t save any of the options that I want to change without getting the error.
le 24 May 2011 à 19:45 h
if I don’t want to display short detail. how i can setting plugin. Default text string cut length to 0 doesn’t work.
le 3 June 2011 à 10:45 h
Ok, where did you stash the code for the link that has been inserted at the bottom of the page. I’m all for placing links and crediting but at least give us the chance to edit it. Even with deleting the plugin its still there. Not cool!
le 3 June 2011 à 12:58 h
@Alerio: I did not “stash” anything anywhere. The link can be removed very simply by clicking the checkbox in the plugin settings page as explained in the plugin doc and FAQ. De-activating the plugin will remove any link. There is no black magic involved. If you still see the link, this has to do with your page cache configuration. It has nothing to do with me or my code, so please do not speculate. There IS NO hidden strings anywhere. No conspiracy here.
le 12 June 2011 à 2:30 h
Hi, great plugin!!! i have a small problem, when I have more than one images on the post, the thumbnail is always the second image of the post and not the first. I want to show only the first image like thumbnail, how can I fix it? Thanks
le 13 June 2011 à 9:55 h
I am not sure why the YD Recent Post widget does not pick up the featured image. It keep picking up the step by step recipe images instead.
Please help!
le 13 June 2011 à 13:48 h
Thanks for your “quick bug fix” regarding the default image. It’s showing correctly for me now.
le 14 June 2011 à 11:46 h
@Shen: check “Use WP2.9+ post thumbnails” in the plugin setings.
le 18 June 2011 à 22:09 h
Thank you very very much Yann to make so useful plugin. About one week I’ve been searching how it is to show my recent post with thumbnail in the sidebar. Your plugin works 🙂
I have several question to you.
To change plugin title : OK
To get pic and excerpt: OK
Space between to post (with margin,padding) : OK
External CSS file : Perfect
To select the post from category i want: Perfect Perfect Perfect
And with short php code to show this plugin in the homepage : OK
But I want to edit break line under posts. The break line remains under text not image of the post and it is jerky.
And the, when it is hovered title of the post, appearing “Permalink to …” text, how can i change this title as “original text title”.
Finally when I hover the line, how can I color background of that line while its color normally is white.
le 19 June 2011 à 17:40 h
Hi there Y. Dubois
Thanks for the plugging, I found it very usefull. I have just two issues. Can you help me with them?
1) The thumbnail image doesn´t change. Im the MAIN PLUGING SETTINGS I have changed the Default image URL: to the full URL of the image that I want to display, which is inside my serer. I have cleared the cache several times but the site is still displaying your logo image. How can I change that?
2) I want to modify the yd_rp.css , so that the H4 title appear in a different color. I have modified the class “.yd_rp_widget h4” adding font-color: #FFFFFF, but nothing happens. Where and how do I need to add the color?
Thanks
Lola
le 23 June 2011 à 2:37 h
Is it possible to Paginate with the hardcode? Something like 50 per page would be great. Any Ideas?
I love this plugin, thank you very much!
le 24 June 2011 à 0:05 h
I really like this plugin, solved a problem for me easily. However, can I have this widget on the same page twice with different settings? I have a website with two categories of blog posts and I want one widget that shows the most recent post for the one category, and one widget that shows the most recent post for the other category.
I think I understand how the widget works fine and all, but how can I get the widget twice?
le 24 June 2011 à 17:52 h
Hmm… I don’t know how that happened, but suddenly I can add more of the same widget again. I swear, when I dragged it to the Widget Area I wanted it in, it was no longer in the list of available widgets. Something I did changed that and it’s back now. Whatever. Good, because none of the other Plugins I’ve tried will do what this one does.
le 24 June 2011 à 17:57 h
@Valerie: you’re right. Sometimes (very rarely) it works, and a second widget can be added. But most of the times it is impossible, and this is a known bug. I never found out why/how it works sometimes. Anyway, I know this is one of the most wanted features and it will be implemented the right way in a future release… but that implies rewriting it completely and I still have not found the free time or sponsors to do it.
le 24 June 2011 à 18:09 h
That is so strange. Perhaps it has some thing to do with conflicting plugins/widgets. I was installing and activating/deactivating various plugins while I tried to make something else work. I guess I’ll just have to hope it continues working for me. Thanks!
le 27 June 2011 à 19:49 h
Hi Y. Dubois,
Merci pour cette plugin. I was wondering if it were possible to put the [yd_list_posts] into some kind of container. More specifically, within a 380x by 1000x box. Everytime I enter the [yd_list_posts] in my page, the recent posts can be seen at the top of the page and across the whole width of the content space. It there any way to edit/adjust this?
Merci en avance,
Leif
le 29 June 2011 à 19:49 h
Is there a way to keep Facebook from seeing all the thumbnails in YD Recent Posts? The problem I’m having is that people will share or Like my page and the thumbnail FB grabs is rarely one from the actual post they are sharing but rather one from an old post listed on the YD Recent Posts sidebar.
le 30 June 2011 à 15:49 h
Hey,
thanks for sharing the plugin, works great and the thumbnails make it more interesting than showing just text!
I got a little problem, I’ll start with how I am using the recent posts.
1. I use it as a widget on my blogroll.
2. I use it as plugin on my home site of my blog so people can see last posts from different categories. There i use which works great.
Now I want to show different long excerpts, as I have more space on my home site than in the sidebar for the widgets.
In the widget preferences I am able to tell the widget/plugin that it shall look other on other pages, with the needed different excerpt length, but it just stays the same. Only data put in the upper part of the preferences are shown.
Am I doing anything wrong or is there any way to give the the excerpt lenght directly?
cheers
le 1 July 2011 à 10:39 h
apologizes if this is a repeat, I haven’t seen my two previous posts.
—
Hi YD users/creator,
I can only use YD Recent Posts when I have the YD Previous Posts in the same widget area…without it, I only have the “YD Recent Posts” Title displayed with no thumbnails etc…it worked for a little while testing it on my local server, but now it shows double the posts, as if I did includes the “YD Previous Posts” as well, directly underneath with no spaces. I remove the “YD Previous Posts,” and then I am stuck with just the Title again.
I checked to see if the accessibility mentioned in # 269 was an issue, which it wasn’t, and look through all the feedback above to see if I could solve the problem on my own. Help would be appreciated.
Thanks much!
Version WP 3.1.
le 1 July 2011 à 11:08 h
Hi Yann! Excellent plugin I use it on a few sites now and would like to offer support – if you would like to have a Swedish translation I would be happy to assist! Just sent the language file to me!
thx Tina
le 1 July 2011 à 12:02 h
@Rabatt:
Thanks for the proposal. The language files are contained in the plugin distribution. Just look into the /languages directory. You can use a tool such as Poedit to create/edit the _SE language files, and send them to me by e-mail. Thanks.
le 1 July 2011 à 12:44 h
Hi there,
I’ve added the widget to my sidebar but the thumbnails are not displaying.. Any advice appreciated!
le 1 July 2011 à 12:56 h
Pls ignore my last comment, works now!
le 1 July 2011 à 15:02 h
Thanks Yann! will get it back to you soon – Tina
le 3 July 2011 à 12:24 h
Hi, my YD Recent posts is appearing in Polish Language, and my site is in English. How can I fix this so it is English only? I have never had this problem before. THanks
le 6 July 2011 à 20:37 h
I worked well, but new posts are dislpayed without thumbnails. Any idea?
le 7 July 2011 à 20:02 h
thank you for your work with this plugin. It is very good.
I have a question about using it with flickr.
I read that TimThumb is now supporting offsite pictures like from flickr for the thumbnails. Is there a way to get that with your plugin as well? For all of my posts I use pictures from Flickr and would like those to show up as the thumbnail.
thank you for your help! =)
le 14 July 2011 à 2:04 h
Using widget.
Shows on pages, but not on categories?
Page: http://woodshack.com.au/about-woodshack/
Category: http://woodshack.com.au/category/featured/
Ideas?
le 18 July 2011 à 23:55 h
I just installed it and nothing is showing up? Where do I go from here?
le 19 July 2011 à 0:01 h
Delete my previous comment, I got it to work! But, the thumbnails are being stretched and are looking really blurry? how can I Fix this?
le 19 July 2011 à 21:08 h
Well I get no support via email or here? Makes sense I guess.
le 20 July 2011 à 0:37 h
@Trey:
Free support is for when I have free time. Paying customers come first.
le 20 July 2011 à 0:50 h
@YD:
Well I assumed this is somewhat of a more general issue since it’s a fresh install and the thumbnails aren’t displaying as they should? Thanks for the update though, just let me know what I need to fix.
le 20 July 2011 à 16:31 h
Hey Yann, I try to shrink the line space of the post titles but can’t figure out a way to do so.
Line height argument in CSS file doesn’t do the trick or am I missing anything?
Could you please advice us.
Example of the issue can be found in the sidebar of this post:
http://ondetours.com/2011/06/v-for-vegan/
le 20 July 2011 à 18:43 h
Great plugin!
Can it be altered to display only the posts that contain a featured image?
So if a post has no image it does not show up in the list of recent post.
Best
Erik
le 20 July 2011 à 19:20 h
Is there a way to make the plugin to just list posts that has a featured image connected to it?
le 20 July 2011 à 21:17 h
The function “Skip latest posts on home page” stopped working suddenly. First it worked fine but then it stopped and now the list always shows the lates post which is also showing on the frontpage. I want to show posts that is not diplayed on the frontpage feed.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!
le 21 July 2011 à 21:14 h
Hi, great plugin!!! i have a small problem, when I have more than one images on the post, the thumbnail is always the second image of the post and not the first. I want to show only the first image like thumbnail, how can I fix it? Thanks
le 30 July 2011 à 10:32 h
I’m looking to use this plugin instead of the one I am currently using, which I believe takes up lots of resources.
I was wondering how do I input more than 1 Additional query parameter?
I want to change the order of the post and exclude categories. I can do one or the other, but not both at the same time.
thanks
Scott
le 2 August 2011 à 18:47 h
Hi, awesome plugin. Was just wondering if there is a way to put a space in between the post in the widget? If you have a look at my site you will see that the posts are on top of each other. I would like to add spacing between them.
Thanks
Byron
le 4 August 2011 à 21:43 h
I
I would like to put an extra menu with the latest post, but without the text, only the pics. I have tried this, but does not work:
Can anyone say me how should I pass the parameters???
le 5 August 2011 à 6:18 h
FYI, there was a TimThumb security vulnerability recently found. You might want to update the TimThumb php file you bundle with your plugin. 🙂
Read: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2011/08/04/timthumb-security-vulnerability/
Fix: http://markmaunder.com/2011/zero-day-vulnerability-in-many-wordpress-themes/
le 5 August 2011 à 11:03 h
@Fruityoaty and @all:
Thanks for the heads up. Here is my statement regarding this security issue:
The version of Timthumb included with some of my plugins is not affected with the security flaw, and never was. That version is quite old and never supported the vulnerable feature (it does not manage content from external sites at all). I guess that is a relief for you as it was for me when I checked the issue yesterday morning.
Since there might be other security flaws in this third-party utility, you might still consider deleting the timthumb.php script if you are not using the timthumb option of my plugin. The plugin can run without it. You can also consider upgrading the script as recommended by the script’s authors: http://markmaunder.com/2011/zero-day-vulnerability-in-many-wordpress-themes/
The updated version of the script will of course be included in future versions of my plugin, if I consider it safer than the present (not vulnerable) version.
le 9 August 2011 à 8:45 h
Thank you for your quick reply. 🙂 Cheers. And thank you for sharing your wonderful plugin.
le 10 August 2011 à 15:38 h
I’ve discovered that my default image doesn’t work. I don’t know what the problem is, I’ve given the settings for it the correct URL and have checked that several times. I have version 3.0.1 of your plugin, which is the most recent version as far as I can tell. I’m confused because it seems to me that this version was intended to correct the problem with the default image not showing up? If you tell me where to fix the code, or where to look in my code to find the problem, that would help, even if you don’t know exactly how to fix my problem. Thanks.
le 10 August 2011 à 15:47 h
Okay, more details for you:
When I give it the full URL for the default image I want, then look at the sourse code for the actual live page, it shows that the image src=”domain/full link that I gave it which already included domain”
If I give it just the path, the source code shows an empty declaration of src=””
If I give it the full link including http:// for the image, then it also gives me
src=””
Any ideas? I think this might be because the website is not a http://www.domainname.com but has a different beginning part. Is there an adjustment I can make to the code to expect me to give it a full link?
le 13 August 2011 à 0:44 h
Hi,
I am using your plugin on my site http://www.global-traffic.net in combination with tabs, and because of that I can’t define number of post, 10 is default. How to change that in core files?
Kind regards
le 20 August 2011 à 18:23 h
I installed your widget.
I am getting a 404 error when I click on the post.
Any ideas? I didn’t change anything in the admin panel.
le 23 August 2011 à 14:47 h
how would i be able to change the link colors while using the short codes. they appear bluish. thanks by the way for a splendid job on this plugin.
le 23 August 2011 à 15:18 h
Dennis: link colors should rather be changed using CSS styling.
le 26 August 2011 à 22:39 h
Having an issue with the thumbnails on the “recent posts” and “previous posts” widgets. I’ve edited the css to create a thumbnail that is width: 100px;
The widget resizes correctly to 100px, however it seems to crop the image instead of displaying the full image as a thumbnail.
Any ideas on what is causing that?
Thanks!
le 29 August 2011 à 4:35 h
Is your issue perhaps related to the proportions of the image?
I see a similar phenomenon on my site. It seems like the image will be cropped strangely if the original is too tall, or wide. The thing is, the software doesn’t have the ability to artfully frame a picture, so it just arbitrarily chops.
But for those few images that are unacceptably ruined (heads cropped off, etc.) I just go ahead and create a thumbnail by hand and upload it as the “featured image” . It works for me . . .
I think one could create and/or designate a thumbnail in WP’s image editor and it would work, too.
le 8 September 2011 à 15:59 h
To delete the title “YD Recent Posts” on posts, widgets and whatever.
working for php, embed code and what so ever!
1. Go to “widgets”
2. Add the widget, “YD Recent Posts” to the sidebar.
3. Delete the TITLE of the widget that says, “YD Recent Posts”
4. Save and the title, “YD Recent Posts” is gone forever!
** Remove the widget from the sidebar if you dont want it.
le 8 September 2011 à 17:15 h
Hi great plugin.
I want to keep only the title of the post in the list. How can i do that?
Thank you in advance.
le 9 September 2011 à 4:01 h
Hi there, REALLY great plugin, thanks.
I am still experimenting with it.
I am trying to use it directly on a wordpress page.
but the page options dont seem to give me an option to show date.
Is there a way I can make the links open in a new tab?
As I am putting them into facebook I frame, I would like to set this.
thanks
Russ
le 9 September 2011 à 12:12 h
Ahha.. I found the control..
becuase I am using facebook tabs plugin for wordpress. I get an option to choose that links open in a new window on the fb iframe. 🙂
le 9 September 2011 à 12:13 h
Hi,
I’ve changed my permalink stucture but the titles listed by the YD recent post widgets all link to old permalinks.
I’ve ‘flushed’ several times the permalinks since the change by visiting the permalink setting page with no luck.
I have no cache plugin enabled, I see no cache folder inside the plugin’s directory. Could you pls help?
le 9 September 2011 à 12:21 h
How do I increase the width of the entire widget. I have updated my theme to increase the width, but the text does not expand. Right now I am cutting off the text.
You can take a look at a page on my site (in development) here: http://www.tonangi.com/blog/?p=22
le 9 September 2011 à 14:33 h
Hi, great plugin!!! i have a small problem, when I have more than one images on the post, the thumbnail is always the second image of the post and not the first. I want to show only the first image like thumbnail, how can I fix it? Waiting for Reply,Thanks
le 9 September 2011 à 19:21 h
@Elba: the plugin has its own cache,a s clearly explained in the plugin doc. Please clear the cache in the plugin admin. Cache will be cleared automatically if you publish a new article.
le 9 September 2011 à 19:33 h
@Y.Dobois. Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately clicking the Clear cache button leads to my 404 page – is seems that the url string has every setting info and at the end it reads clear+cache, but even if refresh the page, the cache is not cleared.
le 9 September 2011 à 19:37 h
@Elba: the plugin cache is also cleared automatically if you update the plugin settings or if you publish a new article.
le 9 September 2011 à 19:40 h
@Y.Dobois Thanks again. Updating gave the same error (think I’m going to delete and re-add the plugin) but publishing a new post resolved the issue. Thanks for the prompt answer. Keep coding good stuff.
le 21 September 2011 à 12:26 h
is this compatible with 3.2.1 ? i had wrote an email but never heard back about your hourly rate…
thanks
le 21 September 2011 à 14:44 h
@Judd : yes it is compatible with 3.2.1. Sorry about the e-mail, I am very busy at the moment. Will answer you ASAP.
le 21 September 2011 à 16:42 h
Y.Dubiois
YES! I’m using it here on 3.2.1
http://woodshack.com.au/about-woodshack/
Recent Work in the sidebar.
le 23 September 2011 à 10:53 h
I realize you are very busy…could you please check your emails again.
Thanks
le 28 September 2011 à 22:50 h
Am I the only one that would like to use the widget more than once? Is there a way to use the widget more than one time?
Once you use it, it disappears from the widget section.
le 28 September 2011 à 22:58 h
@Harold: as a matter of fact, multiple instance of the plugin is the most requested feature, so no, you are not the only one… But alas, up to now, nobody has proposed to finance the complete rewriting of the plugin core to support this feature, and I did not find enough free time to start this important upgrade. So this stays the main feature of the next version of the plugin, but I have no visibility as to when it can be implemented. Until then the present version of the plugin does not support multiple instances, sorry.
le 29 September 2011 à 0:36 h
I can understand that. Thanks for responding. It is a great plug in as it stands.
le 4 October 2011 à 5:17 h
It is very counter productive for the end user to post on this page because everything is in a giant comment stream instead of being easy to find like on wordpress.org. I just say this because I notice that you redirect everyone from wordpress.org here. Finding the info I needed here instead of there was really a pain.
le 6 October 2011 à 17:34 h
Great plugin. One question – I am using post subtitles (WP Subtitle) is there a way to capture the subtitle and display in YD Recent Posts widget? Where would I insert the subtitle call? Thanks.
le 7 October 2011 à 14:12 h
Hi, I’ve used your plugin before and it’s great. But now I wanted to use it on another site with WP 3.2.1 and it seems there’s a bug. After adding the widget to the widget area all the settings of the widget dissapear (it goes blank) and the widget isn’t shown on the site. It happens everytime I try…
le 24 October 2011 à 5:50 h
“Disable backlink in the blog footer” option doesn’t work. Checked and saved, but then reverts back to being unchecked automatically. Not good. Using latest WP release version.
le 26 October 2011 à 13:49 h
I cant seem to find the “Additional query parameters:” in the admin of the plugin..??? where exactly should this be? I need to set specific categories to show. Please help.
le 31 October 2011 à 12:17 h
Hi there,
First of all thanks for this fantastic usefull pluging.
I would like to ask you just a quick question.
How do I move the date to the bottom of the content afther the Ellipsis string.
Thanks
Regards
Rodimux
le 3 November 2011 à 6:12 h
Hello,
First off great plugin, is just what I was looking for a clients custom theme.
I seem to be having a bit of trouble with it though, for the life of me I cant get it to display the thumbnails in any size besides the default 60×60. I have tried editing it in the plugin settings, I have tried to use timthumb, I even went as far as editing the default in the .php files and the css file. Regardless of what I try it still shows the plugins 60×60 instead of my custom 225×227.
I have implemented the plugin manually on the index with
“”
instead of as a widget, I am not sure if that will make a difference as to how the settings work.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice given.
le 15 November 2011 à 1:50 h
I am having the same issue as #423 Drew. Is there a way to accomplish this and what would I need?
le 15 November 2011 à 17:06 h
TRES BIEN!!!!
le 18 November 2011 à 14:09 h
What happened i can’t download the link is not working i need this plugin asap
le 19 November 2011 à 21:47 h
Hi Yann,
For some reason the plugin’s page does not exist:
Link – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/faq/
Have you by any chance removed it or it is a bug?
le 22 November 2011 à 17:56 h
@Mario & @Ece
The WordPress team accidentally removed the plugin’s page for a couple of days, but it is back now.
le 29 November 2011 à 23:16 h
@Drew #423 and @Greg #424, check the previous comments – http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget#comment-4823
@Yann – good that it’s back, weird that most people mark it as incompatible
le 5 December 2011 à 6:18 h
I love this plugin. It’s exactly what I was looking for.
For some reason my last two featured images/posts thumbnails are completely distorted. The first couple worked fine.
Also was wondering where to insert that code mentioned in the FAQ, that allows you restrict the number of posts shown.
My website is still under construction, just so you know.
Hope these are easy fixes.
Thanks,
Amy Jo
le 16 December 2011 à 0:45 h
Hi! Just re-posting in hopes to get a solution for the problem!
Thanks!
I love this plugin. It’s exactly what I was looking for.
For some reason my last two featured images/posts thumbnails are completely distorted. The first couple worked fine.
Also was wondering where to insert that code mentioned in the FAQ, that allows you restrict the number of posts shown.
My website is still under construction, just so you know.
Hope these are easy fixes.
Thanks,
Amy Jo
le 21 December 2011 à 18:14 h
Hello!
First thank you so much for this plugin. It’s made accomplishing a specific task super easy.
I’m trying to use the widget to display random thumbnails. I put in ‘orderby=rand’ into the ‘Additional Query’ box. First load shows randomized images, but the same order is displayed on each refresh.
If I change to ‘orderby=title’ it reorders, then going back to ‘orderby=rand’ creates a new randomized order (when refreshed is the same).
Is there anyway to create a random order each page load? Thank you for your help!
le 22 December 2011 à 23:06 h
great plugin…..it really helps users to browse more topics !:)
le 23 December 2011 à 19:42 h
@Travis: generating a random order for each load would mean that you add an additional query to each of your site’s pages for each load. On a heavy-loaded site, such as the ones this plugin was designed for in the first place, you can’t go that way. This would crash your database server and completely de-optimize WordPress. The reason why the random order you specified does not get re-generated on each page load is because the widget content is cached. It is only re-generated when your blog content actually changes (ie. when a new post is added). This is what makes the plugin very efficient on highly-loaded sites. So I’m sorry but you can’t achieve what you’re aiming for with this plugin, but for good reasons. I’m not sure generating a random order through a database query is a good idea. A better approach would be to shuffle the results on the front end, using Ajax for example.
le 28 December 2011 à 16:27 h
I’m getting a PHP warning when using your plugin:
Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/inc/yd-rpw-widget.inc.php on line 865
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/inc/yd-rpw-widget.inc.php on line 865
le 30 December 2011 à 21:52 h
How can I remove or move the date if I’m not using the widget? Thanks!
le 2 January 2012 à 5:15 h
I really want to try and figure this out. Is there anyone who has any recommendations?!
RE:
For some reason my last two featured images/posts thumbnails are completely distorted. The first couple worked fine.
Also was wondering where to insert that code mentioned in the FAQ, that allows you restrict the number of posts shown.
My website is still under construction, just so you know.
Hope these are easy fixes.
Thanks,
Amy Jo
le 3 January 2012 à 15:46 h
Hello Yann,
Been testing your plugin “YD Recent Posts 3.0.1” for a while now. Pretty sweet, thanks. Have run into to a issue with it, though. I have another nifty plugin called “Display widgets” by strategy11.com. This allows my other plugins to hide/show by a checkbox/ checkboxes added to each widget. Your plugin does not integrate with this one, I’m sorry to discover.
Have you a fix for this? 🙂
Best regards and happy new year,
A. Woods
le 9 January 2012 à 3:59 h
Hello!
How do I show only the posts above a specific date, eg 01/05/2011 12:00:00?
Thank you.
le 12 January 2012 à 21:47 h
Is it possible to create excerpts that are not necessarily part of the post (or in this case the first few lines of the post) so that the sidebar can better market certain posts.
thanks
kar
le 12 January 2012 à 22:46 h
@Karen: not with this plugin, sorry.
le 12 January 2012 à 23:57 h
Nice plugin! i just installed it but i need 2 solutions
1. How can i change the colour of the plugin to match my site. instea of the white background, how can i make it black and also to change the font color.
2. How do i exclude the posts shown on my homepage?
le 14 January 2012 à 0:48 h
I have Recent Posts on my other blogs
http://hotelrestaurantrecruiter.com
http://hoteljobsasia.com
But my newest blog running 3.3.1 does not show the recent posts.
Also it would be nice if the RSS Feed that I use on on http://hospitalityexecutive.biz as a sidebar widget would show images
à bientôt
Modris
le 22 January 2012 à 18:38 h
Hi there!
Thank you so much for such a awesome plug in!
Can you tell me how to have more than 10 recent posts?
I’m sending a link of my Deejay Blog page on my site so you can see.
Thank you so much,
Deejay Marcio
le 24 January 2012 à 8:54 h
I have installed the plugin and it working fine. I have two questions regarding plugin setting.
1. I want to display latest post at the bottom of page instead the top of the page how i can do this.
I don’t want to display comment at the end as this plugins also display latest comment on the post shown on the page.
Thank you
le 26 January 2012 à 21:15 h
Hi, I know I can disable the footer link in the options, but can I remove the backlink that shows up under the recent posts?
Thanks so much for this plugin, I love it!
le 26 January 2012 à 21:18 h
@Kristal: that link is configurable in the widget option panel; set it as anything you like, or just leave it blank to have no link.
le 26 January 2012 à 21:30 h
I don’t see it. 🙁 In my options page, I have main settings with a few check boxes, image url, and image css; then I have Timthumb settings, and then the other settings with the footer backlink option and debug messages option. I don’t see anything about a link. I’m using version 3.0.1
le 26 January 2012 à 21:31 h
OH I just realized you mentioned “widget”… I’m not using it in my widgets, I’m using the short code on the bottom of my home page.
le 19 February 2012 à 18:36 h
Hi. I use your plugin but my home page show is just one post. How can i show three or more post?
le 5 March 2012 à 4:44 h
The new version is just not showing up. Everytime I go back to ediit it all of my info has disappeared. I can’t seem to get rid of the old version though. It’s still listed in the widgets area but not in the plugins.
Any help?
le 6 March 2012 à 14:19 h
the same problem with me… “. I use your plugin but my home page show is just one post. How can i show three or more post?”
le 17 March 2012 à 15:16 h
Hi,
The plug in is displaying an image and text of the recent posts, but when you click the links they are all linked to the home page and not the recent posts at all. I am using flexsqueeze and the twenty eleven them There is not difference.
Regards
Amos
le 18 March 2012 à 15:09 h
Hi Yan,
First of all a great plugin. I am trying to implement the plugin on my home page using the shortcode [yd_list_posts] and I place the shortcode below the text in the wordpress page editing. However in the display, the list of posts appears above the Text fold of the page. Do you have any ideas as to why this is happening and what I should do to fix it?
Regards,
Akul.
le 18 March 2012 à 15:10 h
P.S. I am using the buddypress default theme.
le 26 March 2012 à 2:24 h
Great PlugIn, it is what I was looking for long time, but I have few questions for you:
1) I need to show a CATEGORY
2) Limit the display to 5-6, of even better, scroll them
Merci beaucoup
Mario
le 26 March 2012 à 16:20 h
I found some great information in your site and bookmarked to visit again . Thanks.
le 1 April 2012 à 6:02 h
Hi.
Great plug-in. Love it. Best I have found for my needs.
Concerned though, because my hosting site recently reached out to me regarding exploitable timthumb in your file.
They patched it for me, but I’m wondering if there is an update for the plug-in soon. I certainly don’t want to have my site corrupted.
I can forward you the entire email from blue host if you are interested. Email me if you would like to see what they say.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks.
le 1 April 2012 à 12:19 h
@Dan: Blue Host is wrong about that version of Timthum being vulnerable. It is not. This has been explained in great length in oher comments. You are perfectly safe with the provided script as-is. However, since other (more recent) versions of Timthumb have had a dangerous flaw, I will of course include the more recent version of the script in future versions of the plugin… except if I find it to be less secure than the version I presently use which was safe because not including any of the dangerous, unuseful features they introduced later on.
le 4 April 2012 à 21:26 h
@# 105 Sam and everyone that don’t see any data in the widget, but did ticked the option settings and have the html tags displaying.. I had the same issue. Maybe by moving the widget from one place to another, clearing cache many times, etc… apparently messed up things. Try to do a clean new install and it will work just fine.
Thanks for the plugin Yann.
le 22 April 2012 à 20:16 h
The plugin is missing from the plugin repository and this page too. I moved my WordPress to another host and I can’t install YD Recent Posts now…
le 14 June 2012 à 9:39 h
Bonjour,
Votre widget correspond exactement à ce que je cherche, sauf que je n’arrive pas à contrôler le nombre de posts à afficher ! J’ai indiqué celui-ci dans la fenêtre du widget et vider le cache, mais rien à faire.
Pourriez-vous m’aider à résoudre ce problème ?
Merci d’avance.
le 12 July 2012 à 1:16 h
hi,
i have a problem with 3.0.1 version. i have multi-site wordpress and on one site it is ok, on the other, i can have only one “recent posts” widget. if i add one, i cannot add another. i know i should F5 after drag&drop, but i even tried to log out and log in again, but it is not in the available widget list any more..
le 12 July 2012 à 1:38 h
ok, i have done it, but i had to hack yd-rpw-widget.inc.php and add one more controller with different name, after this i was able to add it..
le 27 August 2012 à 18:41 h
The latest post is being shown in full on the Blog Page. I would like it to show just the first few words like older posts. How do I do this please? Thank you.
G
le 5 September 2012 à 15:57 h
I’ve tried to find a blog example for your plugin but could’nt, even on this blog… Where can I find any blog example?
le 5 September 2012 à 16:09 h
@JLM: here’s a site that uses it (right column)
http://94.citoyens.com/
le 6 September 2012 à 1:44 h
Hello everyone!
I see lots of people looking for examples of this plug-in so here is a link of my site… TraktorProTutorials.com
I’ve been using for about a year now and it’s an amazing plug-in!
When you go into my site… go to the Portuguese side of the site and then click on the Deejay Blog tab… I’m currently working on the English side, but been that it’s already up and running in Portuguese… this will give you an idea on how well it works.
Marcio
le 10 October 2012 à 13:48 h
Hi,
I enjoy using your plugin on several sites. When I tried to install it on another one, I can’t find it in the WP repository and your links here won’t work either.
What happened?
Keep up the good work.
TC
Thomas
le 17 October 2012 à 19:06 h
Hi @Thomas,
yeah, the WP plugin team took my plugin out from the repository for wrong reason. It’s not the first time but this time I did not have time/energy to explain to them. I promess as soon as I have time I will re-submit my plugin and post it for download somewhere else. In the meantime maybe you can copy the files (the complete plugin folder) from another WP site?
le 18 January 2013 à 19:24 h
Hello,
How are you?
Can you tell me that how I remove a link at below footer of my site that is:
Featuring Recent Posts WordPress Widget development by YD
Please help.
Thanks,
Asif
le 18 January 2013 à 19:45 h
Hi, just check the checkbox at the very bottom of the plugin settings page. This is explained in the plugin doc and FAQ.
le 19 January 2013 à 9:41 h
Hello,
Please send me the FAQ link and on which line it is given. I did not found it in Plugin settings too. Please help.
Thanks.
Asif
le 21 January 2013 à 9:57 h
Hello,
I have found the option but when I select it to disable footer link it does not redirect me to same page but to site with message of not found and the option still remains un-select.
Please solve the issue
Thanks,
Asif
le 30 January 2013 à 17:16 h
DEar,
I can not change the settings. It gives error when I check the box that not to show the link below the footer. Please update it from your end.
Thanks,
Asif
le 16 June 2013 à 7:16 h
Hey Yann, I installed the YD recent posts plugin but facing one problem. When I add the post and delete it then also the post link is shown in the plugin. What can I do about it?
le 17 June 2013 à 10:58 h
@Dhruv: this is because of the cache. When you publish a new article or clear the cache manually or save an existing article again, the cache will be cleared and the list of links will be corrected.
le 8 August 2013 à 23:45 h
Will you be reuploading this widget anywhere at all? I’ve used it in blog design several times but no longer have it downloaded and I really need it for a friend’s blog.
le 1 September 2013 à 4:04 h
The download link for YD Recent Posts Widget Version 3.0.1 is not working. Could you please fix, or does someone else have another download link? Thanks for all the nice plugins.
le 1 September 2013 à 10:17 h
@Nick
A new version of that plugin is under development. A new download link for the new version will be available in a few days. Please hang on.
le 13 September 2013 à 12:46 h
First of all a great plugin. I am trying to implement the plugin on my home page using the shortcode [yd_list_posts] and I place the shortcode below the text in the wordpress page editing
le 13 September 2013 à 15:30 h
A new version of this plugin will be available in a few days (by the end of this month), that will make it much easier to include all kinds of post lists inside articles (using shortcodes) or widgets. In the mean time, “YD Recent Posts” is now a bit obsolete. The new plugin is a full rewrite with a ton of new features and a fully redesigned interface. Please hang-on until then.
le 23 October 2013 à 0:58 h
[…] news for all users of the very popular (70,000 downloads) legacy plugin for WordPress “YD Recent Posts Widgets with Thumbnails” that I developped in 2009 and maintained up to ca. 2011. This plugin now has an official, […]
le 23 October 2013 à 1:16 h
Hey @all! Great news: WP Frontpage News officially replaces YD Recent Posts Widget. Read it here: http://www.yann.com/en/wp-frontpage-news-officially-replaces-yd-recent-posts-widget-23/10/2013.html , and check-out and install the new plugin here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-frontpage-news/ …Enjoy!
le 30 October 2013 à 19:37 h
The pro version of the plugin is now available for download here: http://www.wpcode-united.com/wordpress-plugin/wp-frontpage-news
le 30 June 2015 à 16:37 h
Hi,
I enjoy using your plugin on several sites. When I tried to install it on another one, I can’t find it in the WP repository and your links here won’t work either.
What happened?
Keep up the good work.
TC
Thomas
le 24 August 2015 à 9:13 h
Hello,I have found the option but when I select it to disable footer link it does not redirect me to same page but to site with message of not found and the option still remains un-select.
le 25 September 2015 à 11:40 h
Thanks for this plugin. I’ve implemented the plugin realy easy. Just a cache problem at the beginning but now it’s ok. Thanks
le 10 February 2017 à 18:54 h
Hey Yann, I installed the YD recent posts plugin but facing one problem. When I add the post and delete it then also the post link is shown in the plugin. What can I do about it?
le 23 February 2017 à 20:33 h
This plugin is quite outdated, it is not maintained anymore. There are better replacements, including https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts