Super Recent Posts Widget for WordPress

Drag and drop the widget and fill out the appropriate fields. Some notes:

To display posts from a specific post type leave Taxonomy as “– No Specific Taxonomy –“

If you leave order by and/or order as “– Choose order parameter –” and/or “– Choose orderby parameter –” it will go with WordPress’ default(s), see here for more information.

The following filters are available:

srpw_get_args to override arguments of main query for the widget.

srpw_template to override the output template for the widget, see below for more information.

srpw_WIDGET_NAME_template to override the output template for the widget on a widget by widget basis, the WIDGET_NAME appears on the back-end in the widgets window see below for more information.

widget_title this is a WordPress core filter see here for more information.

srpw_post_types to override the post types available for this widget.

srpw_taxonomies to override the taxonomies available for this widget.

Usage of srpw_template filter Add a “views” directory and file named “custom-srpw.php” to your template directory. The “custom-srpw.php” file will be your custom template for this example.

Example of using a custom template from within your theme pre-PHP 5.3 <?php

function customize_srpw_template_filter( $template ){ $template_dir = get_template_directory(); return $template_dir . '/views/custom-srpw.php'; } add_filter( 'srpw_template', 'customize_srpw_template_filter' ); ?>