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IMPORTANT: Support has moved to the ZATZLabs site and is no longer provided on the WordPress.org forums. If you need a timely reply from the developer, please open a ticket. If you’ve ever wanted to display recent posts, but go far beyond the Recent Posts widget that comes with WordPress, you’re in the right place. One of the very best ways to increase time-on-site (and therefore the engagement of your audience) is helping visitors discover new and wonderful pages and posts on your site. Better Recent Posts Widget can do that by displaying your beautiful featured images right in the widget. You can control the number of posts to display, specify if you want to skip some posts, and display custom post types. Features The WordPress.org version has the following features: All new, better Recent Posts widget Specify widget title Control number of posts displayed Control number of posts to skip (offset) Optionally display post thumbnails Customize thumbnail size Choose post type to display Additional features in the pro version: Optionally display post author Optionally display post count Optionally display post comment count Optionally display post excerpt/length Customize post display order Customize post sorting method Better taxonomy selection control Multiple widget instance support Multisite capable Adoption Notice This plugin was recently adopted by David Gewirtz and ongoing support and updates...
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- Minimal impact on memory usage
- Minimal impact on pagespeed
- No PHP errors, warning, notices
- No Javascript issues
- Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible
- Latest WordPress 5.2.4 compatible
- Optimized database footprint
- No activation errors
- No resource errors
- Frequently updated
- No problems were detected during tests.
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Memory Usage
- Average memory usage is -4.81 KB
- This is less than 99% plugins
Page Speed
- Average page loading time is increased by 0.03s
- This is faster than 99% plugins
Page Tests (after activation)
Plugins Page
- Page URL: /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
- HTTP Status: 200
- Loading Time: 0.38s
- Memory Usage: 0.44 MB
Front Page
- Page URL: /
- HTTP Status: 200
- Loading Time: 0.3s
- Memory Usage: 0.41 MB
Widgets
- Page URL: /wp-admin/widgets.php
- HTTP Status: 200
- Loading Time: 1.06s
- Memory Usage: 0.45 MB
Speed Test Benchmark
- Before plugin activation
- After plugin activation
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- 0.03s
/(front page)
- 0.09s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.01s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.02s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.04s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.16s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
- 0.01s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 0.16s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 0.08s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
- 0s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
- 0.11s
/wp-admin/upload.php
- 0.16s
Memory Usage Benchmark
- Before plugin activation
- After plugin activation
Pages
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Change
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- 4.81KB
/ (front page)
- 7.41KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 1.04KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 1.26KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 1.19KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 1.19KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 1.14KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 1.18KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 10.55KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 2.03KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 1.18KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 1.12KB
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Frequently Updated
- The plugin has not been updated in the last 90 days.
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PHP Compatibility Issue
- The plugin has not been properly activated on PHP 7.2.16. It may not work.
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WordPress Compatibility Issue
- The plugin may not be fully compatible with WordPress 5.2.4.
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PHP Error Log
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- [17-Oct-2019 04:26:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; pippin_recent_posts has a deprecated constructor in /wp-content/plugins/better-recent-posts-widget/better-recent-posts-widget.php on line 14
- [17-Oct-2019 04:26:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-recent-posts-widget/better-recent-posts-widget.php on line 172
- [17-Oct-2019 04:26:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-recent-posts-widget/better-recent-posts-widget.php on line 172
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