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Illustrated Recent Posts Widget
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Plugin Name: Illustrated Recent Posts Widget
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Plugin URI: http://github.com/elfsternberg/illustrated-recent-posts-wp/
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Description: This plugin creates a fairly limited widget, but the magic in the CSS creates a lovely background for individual posts.
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Version: 0.1.0
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Author: Elf Sternberg
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Author URI: http://www.elfsternberg.com/
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Copyright: 2013 Omaha Sternberg (http://igameradio.com)
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License: GPLv3
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License URI: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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Tags: recent posts, images, category, categories, widget, post list, exclude, include
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Tested up to: 3.5
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Description
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This is a fairly ordinary extension of the Recent Posts widget.
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What's useful about it is that scans each recent post for an image
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and, if one is found, adds it to a div at the end of the returned HTML
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object. With a little CSS magic (see the included CSS file), the
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image is faded out slightly, like a background, and the text
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superimposed above it. This can be really attractive for gaming and
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movie sites. This effect, or something like it, can be clearly seen
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at theverge.com's home page, and I've implemented it for
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iGameRadio.com.
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You can limit them by category (for example, "podcasts" or "news").
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I wrote this for my wife's website. Ah, the things we do for love.
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To Install
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Extract the contents of the zip file to your wp-content/plugins
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folder, then activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu in your
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admin center. You will have to drag-and-drop the widget to a sidebar
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using the Widgets admin pages.
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Recommendation
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The plugin doesn't work well at all without the included css (see
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irpw.css included in this folder). This will position the content and
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the images relative to each other, and that's the effect you're
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looking for.
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TODO
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Implement and understand the caching feature as seen in
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default-widgets.php.
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Implement a per-post styling filter that allows us to colorize each
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image as seen at theverge.com, as well as alter the opacity, depending
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upon the user's wishes.
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Implement variable display fields (author, date, comment count) on
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each article.
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