Allows you to display a list of recent posts on your front page without needing a widget – it’s a great way to create a front page ‘river of news’ from content across your site!
This plugin allows you to display a list of recent posts on your main blog from across your Network.
More than a widget – this allows you to simply replace your frontpage (or a component of it) with the latest posts from across your network.
This does require a little extra work (not too much though) so please be sure to read the installation instructions and notes!
Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.
This plugin requires the Post Indexer plugin
The shortcode to list Recent posts is:
[globalrecentposts]
And it will take the following attributes (found in plugin file):
`'number' => 5, 'title_characters' => 250, 'content_characters' => 0, 'title_content_divider' => '', 'title_before' => '', 'title_after' => '', 'global_before' => ' <ul>', 'global_after' => '</ul> ', 'before' => ' <li>', 'after' => '</li> ', 'title_link' => 'yes', 'show_avatars' => 'no', 'avatar_size' => 16, 'posttype' => 'post'`So, for example if you want to show 5 posts on the front page with a link in the title to the post, with avatar you would use:
[globalrecentposts number="5" title_link="yes" show_avatars="yes"]
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