Flexible Recent Posts vs Stealth Publish

Looking for maintainer. Write me to [email protected] Flexible Recent Posts (FRP) plugin gives you possibility to add widget to your blog with recent posts using user-defined template. The main features are: Template for each post in widget. You can write your HTML-template or overwrite default in widget form. Shortcodes support in template. You can use built-in shortcodes to insert info related to current post in widget: title, featured image, excerpt, date, permalink, author, comments. Restrict terms from which you want to display posts. Display posts from all terms or from selected only. Number of posts to display. Set number of latest posts that will be displayed in widget. All posts links. Select option to display link near the title or/and after all posts that will open selected posts category page. Set link title or custom link URL. Useful links: Template shortcodes Feature requests Bugs Donate (Flattr) Translators: Russian (ru) – Paul Annekov Licenses Uses FatCow Icon Set licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Shortcodes Plugin template system supports 5 shortcodes related to current widget post, that you can use in your template: Title [frp_title] Displays post title. Example: [frp_title] Excerpt [frp_excerpt length=””] Displays post excerpt using get_the_excerpt function. You can specify excerpt length using length attribute. If not specified – default WordPress excerpt length used. Example: [frp_excerpt] , [frp_excerpt length="15"] Date [frp_date format=”F j, Y” time_since=”0″] Displays post date. You can add format shortcode parameter to change date format. Read about format value here. Add time_since parameter with 1 as value to display amount of elapsed time: 30 seconds ago, 5 minutes ago, 12 hours ago, 3 Jun. Example: [frp_date format="Y/m/d g:i:s A"] , [frp_date time_since="1"] Link [frp_link] Displays post permalink. Example: read more Featured image [frp_thumbnail size=”32×32″] Displays featured post image. Add size shortcode parameter to change image size. You can define size using WIDTHxHEIGHT as value or size name (built-in or defined in theme). Examples: [frp_thumbnail], [frp_thumbnail size="thumbnail"], [frp_thumbnail size="128x128"], [frp_thumbnail size="full"] Author [frp_author link=”1″] Displays name of the post’s author. Set link parameter to 0 if you want to disable link (author’s site) from author name. Examples: [frp_author], [frp_author link="1"], [frp_author link="0"] Comments [frp_comments no_text=”1″] Displays the number of comments. Set no_text parameter to 1 if you want to disable comment text (just “23” instead of “23 Comments”). Examples: [frp_comments], [frp_comments no_text="1"], [frp_comments no_text="0"]

This plugin allows you to prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds, and from notifying external services of publication. Beneficial in instances where you want to publish new content without any fanfare and just want the post added to archive and category pages and its own permalink page. A “Stealth publish?” checkbox is added to the “Write Post” admin page. Posts which are saved with that checkbox checked will no longer be featured on the front page of the blog, nor will the post be included in any feeds. A stealth published post will also not notify any external services about the publication. This includes not sending out pingbacks, trackbacks, and pings to update services such as pingomatic.com. This behavior can be overridden via the ‘c2c_stealth_publish_silent’ filter (see Filters section). NOTES: Use of other plugins making their own queries against the database to find posts will possibly allow a post to appear on the front page. But use of the standard WordPress functions for retrieving posts (as done for the main posts query and the recent posts widget) should not allow stealth published posts to appear on the home page. If you use this plugin, you do not need to use my Silent Publish plugin as that functionality is incorporated into this plugin. Alternatively, if you like the silent publishing feature but want your new posts to appear on your blog’s front page and in feeds, then just use the “Silent Publish” plugin. The plugin records when a post is stealth published, so subsequent edits of the post will have the “Stealth publish?” checkbox checked by default. Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | Author Homepage Filters The plugin is further customizable via three filters. Typically, these customizations would be put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or used by another plugin. c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key’ filter allows you to override the name of the custom field key used by the plugin to store a post’s stealth publish status. This isn’t a common need. Arguments: $custom_field_key (string): The custom field key to be used by the plugin. By default this is ‘_stealth-publish’. Example: /** * Defines a custom meta key to be used by Stealth Publish. * * @param string $custom_field_key The default custom field key name. * @return string */ function override_stealth_publish_key( $custom_field_key ) { return '_my_custom_stealth-publish'; } add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key', 'override_stealth_publish_key' ); c2c_stealth_publish_silent (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_silent’ filter allows you to override whether the plugin also ensure the post gets published silently (i.e. without sending out pingbacks, tracbacks, and pings to update services). Arguments: $publish_silently (bool): Should stealth published posts also be published silently? By default this is ‘true’. $post_id (int): The ID of the post being published. Example: /** * Disable silent publishing for stealth published posts. * * @param bool $publish_silently True if the post is to be published silently. * @param int $post_id The post ID. * @return Always false. */ function override_stealth_publish_silent( $publish_silently, $post_id ) { return false; } add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_silent', 'override_stealth_publish_silent' ); c2c_stealth_publish_default (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_default’ filter allows you to override the default state of the ‘Stealth Publish?’ checkbox. Arguments: $state (boolean): The default state of the checkbox. By default this is false. $post (WP_Post): The post currently being created/edited. Example: // Have the Stealth Publish? checkbox checked by default. add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_default', '__return_true' );