Recent Posts by Cooperative Computing (recent-posts-by-cooperative-computing) free WordPress plugin

This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of post (or custom post type) links (with title, featured image and exceprt) to a specific author (or multiple authors), category (or multiple categories) and tag (or multiple tags). It can be called either with a shortcode or from within a theme file.

To call it with a shortcode, use [recent] below are the attributes you can use with this shortcode:

* Authors:
[recent author=”username or multiple usernames separated by comma”]
* Category:
[recent category=”category name or names separated by comma”]
* Tag:
[recent tag=”tag name or names separated by comma”]
* Post Type:
[recent post_type=”post type name”]
* Show Posts:
[recent show=”number of posts to show”]
* Show Excerpt:
[recent excerpt=”true (default is false)”]
* Show Thumbnail:
[recent thumbnail=”true (default is false)”]

To call it from within a theme template, you have to wrap it in this PHP function: <?php echo do_shortcode('your shortcode goes here'); ?>

To use this plugin in sidebar by using widget:

• Go to themes > appearance > widgets
• Drag Recent Posts Widget by CC to the sidebar where you want to display.
• That’s it.