One of the first things that a lot of WordPress MU site owners want to do is to show all the latest posts from across the entire site on the homepage - simply, efficiently and quickly.

Well, if that's what you are after - your search ends here :) This is a simple but powerful widget that runs in conjunction with out Post Indexer (you'll need to drop that into mu-plugins too) and allows you to do just that!

This is the sister plugin to the recent global comments widget plugin, which does the same as this... but for posts. 

Refer to the installation page for detailed instructions on how to install and use.

Once in place, the latest posts (since you installed the post indexer) will appear however you wish to style them, simple as that:

After installing you just go Appearance > Widgets and add the Recent Global Posts widget to your sidebar

Adding Recent Global Posts widget to sidebar

And of course its simple to configure in very powerful ways!

To display the blog avatars you will need to install the avatars plugin.

Recent Global Post widget

Neato! Heh?

If you like this plugin, you might also be interested in:

1.  Recent Global Author Comments Feed

  • Provides a global feed of comments from a single author made across multiple blogs on the one WPMU site

2.  Recent Global Author Posts Feed

  • Provides a global feed of posts from a single author made across multiple blogs on the one WPMU site

3.  Recent Global Comments Widget

  • Display all the latest comments from across your entire WordPress MU site - using a simple but powerful widget!

4.  Recent Global Comments Feed

  • An RSS feed of all the latest comments from across your entire site

5.  Recent Global Posts Feed

  • An RSS feed of all the latest posts from across your entire site