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Recent Posts Plus

An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget, allows display of thumbnails, post excerpt, author, comment count, and more.

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85
Displaying meta fields that hold multiple values

Displaying meta fields that hold multiple values: users show security, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Displaying meta fields that hold multiple values As the doc states: only the first element of each meta field is displayed when using {META[metafieldname]} I threw together a very quick , dirty , probably not optimal, not working in every case, … 🙂 hack that allows me to display my meta field as a comma separated list in case there is more than 1 value.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Image size incorrect [Important!]

Image size incorrect [Important!]: users show compatibility, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Image size incorrect [Important!] I am using this Plugin and I would like to set my thumbnail size to 220x135pixels but it only shows 135x135pixels.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
media cache issues showing up in google page speed insights

media cache issues showing up in google page speed insights: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
media cache issues showing up in google page speed insights Hi there — Is this plugin still being supported?
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Columns and Rows

Columns and Rows: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Columns and Rows I want to use your plugin to display Recent Posts within the homepage body content but would be interested in setting up into columns, or two Recent Posts per row.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
EXCERPT HTML tags stripped

EXCERPT HTML tags stripped: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
But I’ve just found an issue in my latest application and hope you can help: Using {EXCERPT} in the Widget Output Template to display a manually set excerpt with a few HTML tags (strong, a).
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Getting Lists to Stack

Getting Lists to Stack: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Getting Lists to Stack Hello, I have installed your plugin on my front page at http://www.unconventionallife.net .
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
PLUGIN ABANDONED

PLUGIN ABANDONED: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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Can you confirm if you’re still supporting it.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Hard crop isn't working

Hard crop isn't working: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
I’ve even added this to my functions file: function add_custom_sizes() { add_image_size('60x60',60, 60, true); } add_action('after_setup_theme','add_custom_sizes'); https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-plus/ It appears that hardcrop isn’t working.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
WP_Query and calling for multiple pages

WP_Query and calling for multiple pages: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
WP_Query and calling for multiple pages Hi, I am using this code in the WP_query section of the widget: { "post_type": "page", "orderby": "rand", "page_id": "234,37,61" } I am imagining that either “page_id” does not support multiple ids or I’m doing something more wrong than that.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Still supported? Alternatives?

Still supported? Alternatives?: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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Still supported?

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stale update history 4 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature security 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Collected Signals

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complaint PLUGIN ABANDONED support · 2024-07-01T06:27:54+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

PLUGIN ABANDONED: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Can you confirm if you’re still supporting it.
compatibility support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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complaint Breaks the widgets page in WP 5.5.1 support · 2020-10-11T22:53:40+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Breaks the widgets page in WP 5.5.1: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Doesn’t seem to matter what other plugins are enabled at the time.
bugs value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Still great! And also author displaying (5 stars) review · 2016-02-17T09:14:08+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Still great! And also author displaying: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Still great!
easy quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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complaint Display name of the blog the post belongs to? support · 2015-12-18T06:28:02+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Display name of the blog the post belongs to?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hi, Great widget!
missing feature quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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complaint Hard crop isn't working support · 2015-07-31T22:37:51+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Hard crop isn't working: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve even added this to my functions file: function add_custom_sizes() { add_image_size('60x60',60, 60, true); } add_action('after_setup_theme','add_custom_sizes'); https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-plus/ It appears that hardcrop isn’t working.
compatibility setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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complaint media cache issues showing up in google page speed insights support · 2015-07-05T16:42:25+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

media cache issues showing up in google page speed insights: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: media cache issues showing up in google page speed insights Hi there — Is this plugin still being supported?
bugs performance support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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neutral A post is not put in first place support · 2015-01-28T17:13:29+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

A post is not put in first place: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: A post is not put in first place Hi, A post is not listed first although his number ID is put it first. Example: { “post__in”: [2192,2188,2170,2168,2642] } The post with ID 2188 is put it fist. What could be the problem? Regards. https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-plus/ Hi, A post is not listed first although his number ID is put it first. Example: {
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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neutral How to show author's posts in Recent Posts Plus? support · 2014-12-08T00:19:57+00:00 · low severity · post-plugins

How to show author's posts in Recent Posts Plus?: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: { "author": "1" } See the documentation here http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/ Thanks, I just worked it out!
setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed Still supported? Alternatives? support · 2014-11-14T17:51:46+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Still supported? Alternatives?: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Still supported?
bugs support reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise perfect! (5 stars) review · 2014-10-18T02:37:04+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

perfect!: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: perfect!
reliable quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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neutral Excerpts vs content support · 2014-08-27T22:52:34+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Excerpts vs content: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Excerpts vs content I’ve never understood why this plugin won’t render content, just excerpts. But strangely today I noticed in my primary sidebar it’s actually calling content, while the secondary sidebar will only call excerpts. https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-plus/ I’ve never understood why this plugin won’t render content, just excerpts. But s
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise thumb up (5 stars) review · 2014-08-20T06:17:11+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

thumb up: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: thumb up thumbs up Very nice work indeed because of the WP_Query and PHP-code options in the widget.
compatibility missing feature setup quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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question Category support · 2014-08-19T13:24:47+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Category: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Category Is there a way to add the category name for each post under the title? https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-plus/ Is there a way to add the category name for each post under the title? https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-plus/
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Very well done (5 stars) review · 2014-08-18T12:52:04+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Very well done: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Very well done Just want to give my kudos for an extremely well done, powerful, and well thought out plugin. Thanks again Cheers Matt Just want to give my kudos for an extremely well done, powerful, and well thought out plugin. Thanks again Cheers Matt
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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complaint Hyperlinks stripped from exerpts support · 2014-04-18T03:07:00+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Hyperlinks stripped from exerpts: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is this still a bug?
bugs content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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complaint Add to Content Builder Drop Down Menu support · 2014-03-20T10:34:21+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Add to Content Builder Drop Down Menu: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Add to Content Builder Drop Down Menu Hello, Seems like a great widget!
missing feature quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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complaint Show a 1 pixel frame around the widget, and an image header support · 2014-03-10T13:14:02+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Show a 1 pixel frame around the widget, and an image header: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Show a 1 pixel frame around the widget, and an image header Hi, I would like to know how it might be possibler to 1) show a gray 1 pixel wide frame around the recent posts widget; 2) show a 281×61 pixel large jpg as a standard header above the widget (but inside the frame above) thanks https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-plus/ Hi, I would like to know
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Very happy (5 stars) review · 2014-02-28T20:52:06+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Very happy: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very happy Very nice work indeed because of the WP_Query and PHP-code options in the widget.
compatibility missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Great plugin! (5 stars) review · 2013-12-06T15:18:25+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Great plugin!: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great plugin!
easy quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Great plugin (even though thumbnails missing) (5 stars) review · 2013-12-01T19:56:33+00:00 · medium severity · post-plugins

Great plugin (even though thumbnails missing): users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great plugin (even though thumbnails missing) The optional thumbnails are missing.
missing feature quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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