Recent Changes
A widget and short code to show the most recently modified pages, posts or both allowing visitors to review recent changes as they would on a wiki.
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·100 active installs·Updated 15 years agoAs of April 2026, Recent Changes is a WordPress pages plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP-PageNavi.
5/51 reviews
100active installs
7.6K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
A widget and short code to show the most recently modified pages, posts or both allowing visitors to review recent changes as they would on a wiki. Options to select number of items returned up to 15 and exclude items by ID.
Use shortcode [recentchanges] with options content, exclude and number e.g. [recentchanges content=’pages’ number=’10’ exclude=’5,8′] in post/pages.
content = ‘pages’, ‘posts’ or ‘both’
number = ‘1’ to ’15’
exclude = any number of pages/post by ID separated by commas
NB this plugin supersedes Recent Pages
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.5:
- added shortcode structure with same variables as widget
- fixed error where searches with exclusions would return the wrong number of items
1.0:
- added exclude function to allow page/post to be excluded from list by ID
0.2:
- updated the SQL query to accept prefixed tables
- updated URL format to avoid W3C validator errors
0.1:
- designed query to return 1-15 most recently modified item…
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