AHP Sitewide Recent Posts for WPMU
Building on the venerable Recent Posts plugin by Ron and Andrea, I have created an extended version that offers a lot more user control over output, including gravatar support.
Plugin homepage: at metaBLOG.us.
Features:
- excludes posts on main blog (blog ID = 1)
- excludes first posts (Hello, world) on user blogs (post ID = 1)
- option to show gravatar support (24px). Gravatar links to posts by user on their blog.
- option to show post excerpt. User can specify excerpt length with extra argument. Option to capitalize 1st five words of excerpt for readability.
- option to show post author name
- option to show post date
- option to show post comment count
- all dispay options can be selectively toggled on or off using a single bitmask parameter, permitting very flexible and customizable usage (256 possible configurations!)
- numerous other display and formatting options can be easily edited in source code using global vars
Argument List
- $how_many: how many recent posts are being displayed
- $how_long: time frame to choose recent posts from (in days)
- $optmask: bitmask for various display options (default: 255)
- 1; // gravatar
- 2; // date
- 4; // author name
- 8; // comment count
- 16; // blog name
- 32; // post name
- 64; // post excerpt
- 128; // excerpt capitalization
- $exc_size: size of excerpt in words (default: 30)
- $begin_wrap: start html code (default: <li class="ahp_recent-posts">)
- $end_wrap: end html code to adapt to different themes (default: </li>)
Bitmask:
Note that to use the bitmask option, simply add the numeric codes for the display options you want together. For example, suppose you only want gravatar, post name, and date - then the bitmask would be 1+2+32 = 35. Using a bitmask in this way, you can turn on or off any combination of display options above, using only a single function argument.
Demo:
- visit Talk Islam for plugin in live use (under "Recent Journals" sidebar)