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Beautiful Recent Posts Widget

Show recent posts with thumbnails, category filters, excerpts, and list or card layouts. Use a native block, classic widget, or shortcode.

Latest
5.0.0
Releases
5
Updated
September 27, 2026
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5 releases

  1. Stable

    5.0.0

    New teal editorial branding, SVG icon, and standard/retina directory banners.

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    • New teal editorial branding, SVG icon, and standard/retina directory banners.
    • Added a native block, shortcode, list/card layouts, category and ordering controls.
    • Added optional author, excerpt, thumbnail shape, metadata, and current-post exclusion.
    • Preserved the original WordPress.org plugin filename, saved classic widget IDs and original settings.
    • Migrates activation from the GitHub-only 4.x filename on single-site and multisite installations.
    • Replaced unused data-retina markup with native responsive images.
    • Bounded and sanitized settings; excluded private and password-protected content.
    • Added PHP integration tests, JavaScript checks, CI, and reproducible ZIP packaging.
    • Raised minimum requirements to WordPress 6.6 and PHP 7.4.
    • Standardized the translation domain to beautiful-recent-posts-widget for directory language packs.
  2. Stable

    4.1

    Updated WordPress coding standards, escaping, and sanitization.

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    • Updated WordPress coding standards, escaping, and sanitization.
    • Added conditional CSS loading and retina image sizes.
  3. Stable

    4.0

    Major code refactoring and WordPress 5.0+ compatibility.

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    • Major code refactoring and WordPress 5.0+ compatibility.
  4. Stable

    1.1

    Minified CSS and performance improvements.

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    • Minified CSS and performance improvements.
  5. Stable

    1.0

    Initial release.

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    • Initial release.