Sitewide Recent Images for WordPress

This plugin will add a widget that displays thumbnails of the most recently posted images from all the blogs in a network. It’s highly optimized to be scalable for large networks, so it should need only about 100 database queries even for a network of thousands of sites. And to keep any performance drain as minimal as possible, the plugin utilizes caching with an adjustable update interval.

Note that images are taken only from blogs and posts which don’t have privacy options enabled (compatible with More Privacy Options) and the image must be attached to a post. So essentially, only public images are shown.

The widget formatting is completely customizable via a template and/or CSS (if available). The template uses patterns that will plug in values for the following:

Image Title

Image Caption

Image Description

Image Thumbnail URL

Full Image URL

Image Publish Date

Parent Post Title

Parent Post URL

Blog URL