Category Posts Widget

Version: 4.9.3

Version : 4.9.3

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Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.

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Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category. Term and Category based Posts Widget A premium version of that free widget available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites. Premium features Image-Slider Post List “Alterations” Full background post images Masonry (responsive layouts), Grid and Column full page layouts More complex ways to filter (ANY, NOT, AND, not include children) Custom Post Types, Events, Products support Add-ons All free features E-Mail support Free trial on localhost More examples on the demo pages Features Template to arrange the post details. The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons. Font-icon support. ‘Load more’ button / Ajax API Shortcode (Easily change all Shortcode options in the customizer). Date range filter New date format: Time since plublished Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private. Multiple shortcodes at the same site or post. Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another). Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode. Excerpt length in lines (line-clamp) Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”. For editing shortcode adds a Customizer link to the admin-bar (“With one click to the Customizer”). Set thumbnail width & height / image...

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  • Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
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  • Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
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  • No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Latest WordPress 5.3.2 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
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  • Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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  • No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
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  • No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
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  • Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days
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    • The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.
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    About Category Posts Widget

    Description

    Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category. Term and Category based Posts Widget A premium version of that free widget available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites. Premium features Image-Slider Post List “Alterations” Full background post images Masonry (responsive layouts), Grid....

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    Performance

    Memory Usage

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    Page Speed

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    - 0.03s
    /(front page)
    - 0.19s
    /wp-admin/edit-comments.php
    - 0.02s
    /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
    - 0.22s
    /wp-admin/edit.php
    - 0.02s
    /wp-admin/index.php
    - 0.08s
    /wp-admin/media-new.php
    - 0.03s
    /wp-admin/options-discussion.php
    - 0.01s
    /wp-admin/options-writing.php
    - 0.01s
    /wp-admin/post-new.php
    + 0.25s
    /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
    - 0s
    /wp-admin/upload.php
    - 0.05s
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    + 46.68KB
    / (front page)
    + 3.15KB
    /wp-admin/edit-comments.php
    + 3.64KB
    /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
    + 3.77KB
    /wp-admin/edit.php
    + 3.78KB
    /wp-admin/index.php
    + 3.78KB
    /wp-admin/media-new.php
    + 11.66KB
    /wp-admin/options-discussion.php
    + 11.74KB
    /wp-admin/options-writing.php
    - 0.04KB
    /wp-admin/post-new.php
    + 5.96KB
    /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
    + 5.11KB
    /wp-admin/upload.php
    + 11.64KB
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    Value for Money
    5
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