A highly customizable Recent Posts widget for WordPress.

• Description
• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Support
• Contributing
• Changelog
• License

Recently is a highly customizable widget to showcase the most recent entries from your WordPress powered site.

• Multi-widget capable. That is, you can have several Recently widgets on your blog - each with its own settings!
• Polylang/WPML 3.2+ support - Show the translated version of your recent posts!
• WordPress Multisite support.
• WordPress Popular Posts support - Display the views count of your recent posts!
• Custom Post-type support. - Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Recent Products? You can!
• List recent posts filtered by categories, tags, or custom taxonomies!
• Display a thumbnail of your recent posts! (see the FAQ section for more details.)
• Use your own layout! Recently is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your recent posts list! (see customizing Recently's HTML markup and How to style Recently for more.)
• Localizable to your own language (See translating Recently into your language for more info).
• WP-PostRatings support. Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!

• WordPress 5.7 or newer.
• PHP 7.2 or newer.
• Mbstring PHP Extension.
• Either the ImageMagik or GD library installed and enabled on your server (not really required, but needed to create thumbnails).

1. Log in into your WordPress dashboard.
2. Go to Plugins > Add New.
3. In the "Search Plugins" field, type in Recently and hit Enter.
4. Find the plugin in the search results list and click on the "Install Now" button.

1. Download the plugin and extract its contents.
2. Upload the recently folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate Recently through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

1. In your admin console, go to Appearance > Widgets, drag the Recently widget to your sidebar and click on Save.
2. If you have a caching plugin installed on your site you may need to adjust some settings to make sure Recently can work: Is Recently compatible with caching plugins? Also, if you're using a JS minifying plugin you may need to add recently.min.js to its exclusion list (see Is Recently compatible with plugins that minify / bundle JavaScript code?)

Before submitting an issue, please:

1. Read the documentation, it's there for a reason. Links: Requirements | Installation | Wiki | Frequently asked questions.
2. If it's a bug, please check the issue tracker first make sure no one has reported it already.

When submitting an issue, please answer the following questions:

1. WordPress version?
2. Plugin version?
3. Describe what the issue is in detail (include steps to reproduce it, if necessary).

• If you'd like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot! Ko-fi | PayPal
• If you have any ideas/suggestions/bug reports, and if there's not an issue filed for it already (see issue tracker, please create an issue so I can keep track of it.
• Developers can send pull requests to suggest fixes / improvements to the source.
• You can also help translate Recently into your language / help update an existing translation.

GNU General Public License version 2 or later

Copyright (C) 2024 Héctor Cabrera - https://cabrerahector.com

The Recently plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The Recently plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the Recently plugin; if not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses.