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Version 1.92   Updated Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 6:18pm

Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress

This plugin displays a list of the latest post from each category of your WordPress installation. It can be added to a post or page, or used directly in a template file. In the plugin’s options page you can choose the sort order, show or hide the dates, select the date formatting, show the first X characters of the content, display a link to the comments, and show comment counts, as well as other options.

Download

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Installing

  • Download the above file, rename it from .txt to .php, and upload it to your plugins directory.
  • Enable the plugin.
  • Configure the plugin options (under DDLatestFromEach).

Using

There are two ways you can use this plugin.

1) In a post or page, insert the following line:

<!-- ddlastfromeach -->

2) In a template file, insert the following code:

<?php echo dd_last_from_each(); ?>

Change Log

  • 07-07-09 Version 1.92 – Slight change to the way the list is displayed.
  • 07-06-09 Version 1.91 – You can now choose how many posts per category to display.
  • 02-19-09 Version 1.9 – Added option to use only selected categories.
  • 08-14-08 Version 1.8 – Tested with WordPress 2.6. Now uses WordPress function for determining date/time to show up to date posts. Added option to exclude categories.
  • 09-27-07 Version 1.7 – Updated to support WordPress 2.3. Added ‘Load Default Options’ button.
  • 05-31-07 Version 1.6 – Better support for international date formatting
  • 05-16-07 Version 1.5 – Updated for WordPress 2.2
  • 02-20-07 Version 1.4 – Updated for WordPress 2.1 (new pages were showing up in the default category)
  • 08-09-06 Version 1.3 – Added options to show comment links and counts. Also added an optional limit to the number of links shown, and a few other fixes.
  • 06-03-06 Version 1.2 – Added an option to turn category names into links. A bug was also fixed where extra slashes were being shown in the header text.
  • 05-31-06 Version 1.1 – You can now choose the sort order of the output, hide password-protected posts, and show the first X characters of the content after each post. A few other fixes have been made as well.
  • 05-30-06 Version 1.0 – First release.

Demo

Here you can see the plugin in action:

Latest Post From Each Category

Options

Here are the options available in this plugin’s options page in the WordPress admin panel.

Header text

This is shown above the list of posts.

Sort order

You can choose to have the data sorted by category or date. You also have the option of ascending or descending on both.

Show link to comments

When enabled, this will add a link to the comments for each post listed.

Include number of comments

This option only applies if Show link to comments is enabled. It adds the number of comments to the comment link.

Include link for posts with no comments

This option only applies if Show link to comments is enabled. It allows you to include or hide the comment link for posts with no comments.

Turn category names into links

Enabling this option will turn category names into links to the categories.

Hide password-protected posts

This prevents password-protected posts from showing up.

Show date after listed posts

This will show the post date after each post in the list.

Date format

If you are showing the date after posts, this will allow you to configure the date format (using the standard PHP date() format)

Show first X characters of posts

This allows you to show a preview of the content under each post in the list.

Number of characters to show

This lets you specify how many characters of the content will be shown, assuming you have the previous option enabled.

Limit list to X categories

This allows you to set a limit on the number of categories that will be shown in the list. Set to 0 for no limit.

Excluded category IDs

This is a comma-separated list of category ID’s you want excluded from the list.

Included category IDs

This is a comma-separated list of category ID’s you want to use in the list. This option only applies if you are not using the excluded category IDs option.

Max posts per category

If you would like to show more than one post per category, you can change the number here. To display all posts, use 0.

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  1. 240
    Patrick
    2-16-09 1:50PM

    How would you configre this plugin to show an image thumbnail custom field and title rather than the other info?

    I want to try and use this to pull 10 recent thumbs of work from the portfolio posts into my landing page and display them in a carousel.

  2. 239
    d-ham
    2-12-09 10:50AM

    OK,
    Here’s a NEWBIE question, but-
    If I want to insert this into the HTML of a static page.. the instructions say to include this line:

    How does this do anything, as it’s just a comment line? What am I missing?

    Dave

  3. 238
    Best WordPress Template
    1-28-09 6:39AM

    Hi, I’m just wondering if it possible to add the option to INCLUDE only the categories you want to show (plus the exlude option as well =)?

  4. 237
    Olof
    1-18-09 10:23AM

    If you can’t find the options just edit the description at the top of the file to

    
Description: Displays a list of the latest post in each category. <a href="admin.php?page=dd-latest-from-each.php">Edit options</a>.

    and then you can click to them from your list of plugins.

  5. 236
    Alberto
    1-11-09 6:34PM

    Hi, great plugin, thank you very much! I’m running WP 2.7, runs like a charm.
    The only thing I would like to see in a future version would be the possibility to select the Number of WORDS to show, not the number of characters. Or maybe both options! :)
    Cheers

  6. 235
    nel
    1-6-09 7:06PM

    hi tvdhoff,

    i have just figured out! it was very simple. i changed this line $the_output .= '</b>: <a href="' . get_permalink($posts->ID) . '">' . $posts->post_title . '</a> '; to this line: $the_output .= '</b>: <a href="' . get_permalink($posts->ID) . '">' . __($posts->post_title) . '</a> ';

    in resume, i wraped the $posts->post_title with the filter __()

    :)

    thanks,
    nel

  7. 234
    Vivek
    1-5-09 7:08AM

    sorry for re-post , i gave wrong name in previous attempt , but after changing to proper name also it is giving same error.

    Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in …./wp-content/plugins/dd-lastest-from-each.php on line 2 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in …./wp-content/plugins/dd-lastest-from-each.php on line 2

  8. 233
    Vivek
    1-5-09 7:03AM

    Not working with wp 2.6.2 , not able to activate plugin,

    throwing fatal error

    Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in …./wp-content/plugins/dd-posts-from-cat.php on line 2 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in ……../wp-content/plugins/dd-posts-from-cat.php on line 2

  9. 232
    Steve
    1-4-09 10:22AM

    I will try this one, I am looking for something similar to latest post on Joomla.

  10. 231
    Dan
    1-2-09 9:10AM

    Is it possible to have the latest (x) number of posts for each category? If so, is there an easy way to make this change?

  11. 230
    anita
    12-30-08 4:13AM

    does it work with Wordpress 2.7 ? I installed and activated the plugin, it shows the posts but I cannot change the options.

  12. 229
    floogi
    12-27-08 1:09AM

    Can someone edit the plugin so that there is an include option? I need it to exclude all categories except the ID’s I put in that include option.

    Would be greatly appreciated.

  13. 228
    NAME
    12-14-08 3:45AM

    Your plugin is very good !
    How can I put it into the sidebar widget?
    Please help me!

  14. 227
    Am
    12-7-08 7:40PM

    running wp Version 2.6.5 And using 1.8 of this plugin. Where do I select the options? I click on edit from the plugins page and I only get the normal code box. I’ve tried changing the code to alter what shows in the list, header title, etc but nothing is changing anything . . . . someone please help!!

  15. 226
    Michael
    11-26-08 7:31AM

    Cool plugin. How do i get to the options config page on wp 2.6 though? Hardcoding the default values in the plugin script doesn’t seem to do the trick

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