TDD Recent Posts
Simple widget that displays the recent posts with a short content preview. Control the length of the content preview and number of posts
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·40 active installs·Updated 14 years agoAs of April 2026, TDD Recent Posts is a WordPress post plugin with 40 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
0/5Rating
40active installs
11K+total downloads
18 yearssince 2008
Overview
This is a very simple plugin that mimics the effect of the “recent posts” widget included with WordPress, but with the addition of a content preview. The plugin will, by default, display the name of the post (with a link) and a short bit of text from the post.
The number of characters to truncate is controllable in the widget panel.
Limitations
- The plugin strips out any HTML tags from the post before displaying it, so if you are looking to display images — this isn’t your plugin.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
2.0
- It’s a long time coming, but I finally got around to updating this plugin for a modern WordPress! It now utilizes the widget architecture so you can have multiple instances running. Actually, it’s a complete re-write of the plugin.
- Eliminated the “hard truncate” option, because it didn’t really matter
- Updated the truncate algorithm slightly, so it will remove punctuation at the end of the truncate view
- Cleaned up (er-rewrote) the widget options so play nicer with others.
- This version doesn’t use the options table to store options (the plugin architecture takes care of that for us), so unfortunately upgrading will cause any previous options to disappear. I clean up (delete) any existing options in the table.
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