Don't limit yourself to the handful of widgets available to display recent posts and comments without any customization. Start creating your own custom queries, based on the unique tags you're using on your site. This is a must-have plugin if you intend to create dynamically updating portal pages for the core topics on your site.  It provides a framework for powerful, fine-tuned organization of your dynamic content. 

Benefits and Features: 

  • Adds all posts on your site to a global table so that you can create custom queries
  • Provides unlimited flexibility for building plugins on top of this base
  • Enables the use of Tag Posts plugin which allows you to create lists of posts that have been tagged with a specific tag/category.

Post Indexer Example

This is one heck of a powerful plugin as it indexes all posts on your site into a global table that can be queried for lists of recent posts, etc. Please do read the notes and installation instructions too, as it's quite an advanced plugin and will be of use mostly to experienced users and developers - don't let that stop you from having a go though!

Once installed, this plugin allows you to strart using other premium plugins which allow you to, for example, build dynamically created front pages based on tags.

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