Title: A5 Recent Post Widget
Author: tepelstreel
Published: <strong>24 Fevrer 2014</strong>
Last modified: 09 Avril 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# A5 Recent Post Widget

 By [tepelstreel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tepelstreel/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/a5-recent-posts.2.6.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/a5-recent-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/a5-recent-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/a5-recent-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/a5-recent-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/a5-recent-posts/)

## Description

Yet another recent post widget. It shows the last post of your blog, where and how
you want. You can define, on which pages of your site it shows and whether you want
to show a post thumbnail or not. Decide, whether the links go to the post, to the
attachment page or simply to a file. You can style the links in the plugins settings
and each widget container differently.

The plugin was tested up to WP 4.5 and should work with versions down to 2.7 but
was never tested on those.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The plugin’s work on our testingsite
 * [[
 * The widget’s settings section
 * [[
 * The plugin’s settings section

## Installation

 1. Upload the `a5-recent-posts` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Place and customize your widgets
 4. Define the style of the links in the settings section

## FAQ

  I styled the widget container myself and i looks bad. What do I do?

The styling of the widget requires some knowledge of css. If you are not familiar
with that, try adding

    ```
    padding: 10px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    ```

to the style section.

  My widget should have rounded corners, how do I do that?

Add something like

    ```
    -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
    -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
    -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px;
    -moz-border-radius-topright: 5px;
    border-top-left-radius: 5px;
    border-top-right-radius: 5px;
    ```

  My widget should have a shadow, how do I do that?

Add something like

    ```
    -moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
    box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
    ```

  I styled the links of the widget differently, but the changes don’t show, what
now?

Most of the time you will have to use the styles like that:

‘font-weight: bold !important;
 color: #0000dd !important;’

Since the stylesheet of the theme will have highest priority, you will have to make
your styles even more important in the hierarchy.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Really, I give it 4.75 stars](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-i-give-it-475-stars/)󠁿

 [thewriteamerica](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thewriteamerica/) 03 Setember 
2016

The only knock I have on this plug-in is that I did not find the settings intuitive
right at the start. It took me a little bit of time to set things up how I wanted.
But it does offer great flexibility and once you do get it set up, it will do exactly
what you want it to.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/a5-recent-posts/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“A5 Recent Post Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ tepelstreel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tepelstreel/)

“A5 Recent Post Widget” has been translated into 23 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/a5-recent-posts/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “A5 Recent Post Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/a5-recent-posts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/a5-recent-posts/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/a5-recent-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/a5-recent-posts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/a5-recent-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.6.1

 * Added debug options to framework

#### 2.6

 * Adjustments in framework
 * WP 4.5 ready

#### 2.5.6

 * Adjustments in framework
 * WP 4.3 ready

#### 2.5.5

 * small bugfix with visability

#### 2.5.4

 * Adjustments in Framework
 * More raliable with galleries

#### 2.5.3

 * Adjustments in Framework

#### 2.5.2

 * Adjustments in Framework

#### 2.5.1

 * You can now set the length of the excerpt

#### 2.5

 * DSS more flexible
 * Ability to show as many posts as you like

#### 2.4.3

 * Mistakes in image class fixed

#### 2.4.2

 * More accurate image fetching, if there’s no featured image of the post

#### 2.4.1

 * Added compressible DSS

#### 2.4

 * All ‘Divided by Zero’ errors should be eliminated

#### 2.3

 * Some Finetuning of the framework; more foolproof

#### 2.2

 * Framework adjusted, better recognition of images

#### 2.1

 * Features added, framework adjusted

#### 2.0

 * Release into the wild

#### 1.0

 * Initial release upon request

## Meta

 *  Version **2.6.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.5.33**
 *  Languages
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 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/a5-recent-posts)
 * Tags
 * [newspaper](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/newspaper/)[post](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [recent post](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recent-post/)[sidebar](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
   [widget](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/a5-recent-posts/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/a5-recent-posts/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/a5-recent-posts/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ tepelstreel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tepelstreel/)

## Support

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