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recent-posts-widget-plus

Recent Posts Widget Plus

This plugin allows you to display the most recent posts with an excerpt in a WordPress sidebar widget area.

excerpt recent post recent posts sidebar widget
45.9 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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Open evidence

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51 / 95 rows with source links

53.7% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

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44 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
85 116 -26.7% 623

Related Opportunities

4 markets
Commercial opportunity Widget: Agency visual QA and update safety agency visual QA and update safety · final 78.6 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Sidebar: Agency visual QA and update safety agency visual QA and update safety · final 74.0 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Excerpt: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 71.6 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Recent Posts: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 73.8 · proof validated

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.89
erreur in the first exemple

erreur in the first exemple: 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
erreur in the first exemple Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /homez.584/xxxx/www/wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/recent-posts-widget-plus.php on line 31 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /homez.584/xxxx/www/wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/recent
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85
PHP issue with method substr

PHP issue with method substr: users show bugs, 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
PHP issue with method substr In a latest php version there is an issue with the third argument for the method substr() PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: substr(): Argument #3 ($length) must be of type ?int, string given in /homepages/39/d173382052/htdocs/website-2021/wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/recent-posts-widget-plus.php:33 Fixed it temp
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Problem when content contains shortcodes.

Problem when content contains shortcodes.: 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
Is it possible to simply make the widget ignore shortcodes?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
display thumbs

display thumbs: 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
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ Hi stavroch, Are you referring to the thumbnail of the featured images that are attached to the posts?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
PHP warning found in log

PHP warning found in log: users show bugs, 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
PHP warning found in log Very useful plugin and it works great.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Display date

Display date: users show 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
Display date Would it be possible to have an option to display the date a post was created in this widget?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Read More… / Link Test

Read More… / Link Test: users show 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
Read More… / Link Test Turns out you CAN change the ellipse to something else … could you add this feature?
question support · medium severity · relevance 0.63
Manual Excerpts Don’t Show

Manual Excerpts Don’t Show: question conversation with limited structured signal.

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
Manual Excerpts Don’t Show I have written manual excerpt for posts. Is there any way to show the manual excerpts instead of automatic? I have written manual excerpt for posts. Is there any way to show the manual excerpts instead of automatic?
question support · medium severity · relevance 0.63
Link Text

Link Text: question conversation with limited structured signal.

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
Link Text I set my link text to say “Read More” but I have ellipses instead. How can I change this? https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ I set my link text to say “Read More” but I have ellipses instead. How can I change this? https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ The ellipses are part of the excerpt and are always shown.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Great Plugin

Great Plugin: users show 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
Great Plugin Works great, does exactly as it says n shows.

Competitor Context

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Advanced Excerpt weak incumbent · intel 80.2 · weakness 70.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt praise owner · intel 77.4 · weakness 68.1
praise owner
stale update history 21 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
RSS Image Feed praise owner · intel 75.8 · weakness 66.5
praise owner
stale update history 19 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check feed publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Toggle wpautop praise owner · intel 75.6 · weakness 66.3
praise owner
stale update history 10 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect editor layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
Posts per Cat praise owner · intel 74.2 · weakness 64.9
praise owner
stale update history 17 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links 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
source 1 source 2
Storefront Blog Excerpts praise owner · intel 70.5 · weakness 59.8
praise owner
stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor storefront failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
source 1 source 2
Page Excerpt praise owner · intel 65.5 · weakness 51.2
praise owner
stale update history 4 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check excerpt publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
WP-UTF8-Excerpt praise owner · intel 60.2 · weakness 51.7
praise owner
stale update history 4 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check archive publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2

Repeated Themes

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Collected Signals

12 shown from 12 collected
complaint PHP issue with method substr support · 2024-05-27T08:24:20+00:00 · high severity · excerpt

PHP issue with method substr: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP issue with method substr In a latest php version there is an issue with the third argument for the method substr() PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: substr(): Argument #3 ($length) must be of type ?int, string given in /homepages/39/d173382052/htdocs/website-2021/wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/recent-posts-widget-plus.php:33 Fixed it temp
bugs compatibility 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
source plugin
question Manual Excerpts Don’t Show support · 2017-02-08T15:24:58+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

Manual Excerpts Don’t Show: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Manual Excerpts Don’t Show I have written manual excerpt for posts. Is there any way to show the manual excerpts instead of automatic? I have written manual excerpt for posts. Is there any way to show the manual excerpts instead of automatic?
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
source plugin
complaint PHP warning found in log support · 2016-12-06T19:16:46+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

PHP warning found in log: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP warning found in log Very useful plugin and it works great.
bugs compatibility 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
source plugin
praise Great Plugin (5 stars) review · 2016-06-21T04:00:02+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

Great Plugin: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great Plugin Works great, does exactly as it says n shows.
missing feature 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
source plugin
complaint Read More… / Link Test support · 2016-05-20T15:04:06+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

Read More… / Link Test: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Read More… / Link Test Turns out you CAN change the ellipse to something else … could you add this feature?
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
source plugin
question Link Text support · 2015-02-17T21:28:43+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

Link Text: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Link Text I set my link text to say “Read More” but I have ellipses instead. How can I change this? https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ I set my link text to say “Read More” but I have ellipses instead. How can I change this? https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ The ellipses are part of the excerpt and are always shown.
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
source plugin
complaint Display date support · 2015-02-09T08:53:58+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

Display date: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Display date Would it be possible to have an option to display the date a post was created in this widget?
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
source plugin
complaint display thumbs support · 2013-04-19T13:04:43+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

display thumbs: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ Hi stavroch, Are you referring to the thumbnail of the featured images that are attached to the posts?
missing feature support easy 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
source plugin
neutral Shortcodes showing up support · 2013-03-29T16:34:20+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

Shortcodes showing up: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Shortcodes showing up I tried the solution from you to the other poster to strip shortcodes and it worked for me. Hope it IS in the next release. Thanks. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ I tried the solution from you to the other poster to strip shortcodes and it worked for me. Hope it IS in the next release. Thanks. http://wordp
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
source plugin
mixed erreur in the first exemple support · 2013-01-18T15:10:04+00:00 · high severity · excerpt

erreur in the first exemple: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: erreur in the first exemple Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /homez.584/xxxx/www/wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/recent-posts-widget-plus.php on line 31 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /homez.584/xxxx/www/wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/recent
bugs compatibility missing feature 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
source plugin
question Does it propagate to child categories? support · 2012-12-31T08:37:45+00:00 · low severity · excerpt

Does it propagate to child categories?: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Does it propagate to child categories? Hi there, Does this plugin propagate and list out posts from their sub-categories and deeper? Please advise. Thank you. Jason http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-widget-plus/ Hi there, Does this plugin propagate and list out posts from their sub-categories and deeper? Please advise. Thank you. Jason http://
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
source plugin
mixed Problem when content contains shortcodes. support · 2012-12-14T00:28:35+00:00 · medium severity · excerpt

Problem when content contains shortcodes.: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is it possible to simply make the widget ignore shortcodes?
bugs compatibility missing feature 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
source plugin