Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails

• Restored PHP 5.x support

• Added feature for post order and sorting (feature request: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-posts-by-title/)
• Added class .rpwwt-post-excerpt-more for the "more" text following the excerpt. (feature request: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/class-for-more-sign/)
• Moved language files to translate.wordpress.org. So, please contribute as a translator to make Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails available in more and more languages.
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.8

• new branding
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.6.2

• Corrected comments in uninstall.php
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.6

• Added catalan translation, thanks to Juan of the Ibidem Group
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.5.3

• Added option for omitting all alternative texts of images to improve accessibility
• Added ARIA attribute for the list item of the current page to improve accessibility
• Revised output if the post has no title
• Revised thumbnail display functions
• Improved description for the default alternative text
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of the widget form

• Added option for the alt text of the default thumbnail
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of the widget form

• Added option for the author name (please set a label if you have activated author names)
• Added placeholders for the text fields
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.5.1
• Updated screenshot of the widget form

• Added NAV element around the post list if the theme supports the 'navigation-widgets' type (introduced in WP 5.5)
• Added aria-label to the NAV element for better accessibility
• Added loading=lazy attribute to the default image (introduced in WP 5.5)
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.5

• Added new hook for developers 'rpwwt_categories' to modify the category list of each list item
• Added spanish translation
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.3.2

• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.3

• Added option to display only the default thumbnail
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.2.4
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend

• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.2.1

• Added option to use only except fields as the source for excerpts
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.0.3
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend

• Revised image size selection if a registered image size name is used
• Changed variable names in get_first_content_image_id()
• Changed initalization of variables site_protocol and site_url
• Tested successfully with WordPress 5.0.2

• Added option to omit CSS generation
• Moved option for CSS class names to section "Additional settings"
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend

• Fixed missing "more" links at excerpts from excerpt fields
• Fixed missing line break in the widget form

• Added option to show only sticky posts
• Added option to print inline CSS instead of writing it in a file
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.9.8

• Fixed missing sticky posts in category filtered lists
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.9.7

• Added option for category names as links or not
• Added subheadlines in the widget for a more comprehensive appereance
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.9.5

• Added new filter hook 'rpwwt_the_excerpt' for manual excerpts
• Removed sanitation of the widget title to allow HTML code as output
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.9.4

• Added option for custom category label
• Improved recognition of first images in post contents (now considers domain relative paths and protocol relative paths)
• Fixed missing deactivation of thumbnails in version 5.3
• Revised checks of variables
• Further refactoring to simplify code management
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend

• Added option to hide sticky posts
• Changed excerpt filter from 'the_content' to 'the_excerpt'
• Thorough refactoring to simplify code management
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.9.2

• Fixed missing feature opening links in excerpts in new windows
• Revised FAQ

• Added greek translation. Thank you, Kostas Arvanitidis!
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.9.1

• Added option to set the 'more' text as link
• Updated *.pot file and some translations

• Added japanese translation. Thank you very much, Kazuyuki Kumai
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.8.2

• Added turkish translation. Thank you very much, Mehmet HAKAN
• Added 'Requires PHP' info in readme.txt
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.8.1

• Revised sanitations for texts and URLs on the pages
• Revised translations
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.8

• Removed usage of cache
• Removed usage of extract()
• Improved: Faster check for found first image against being an image
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.7.2

• Revised translation of author line

• Revised widget template for more conformity to WP standard widget output

• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.7

• Added option to print the post category slugs as class names at LI elements
• Fixed outdated URL to reviews
• Updated *.pot file and german translation

• Added option to ignore the post excerpt field as source of the excerpt
• Updated *.pot file and german translation

• Revised uninstall function for WordPress 4.6 due to the introduction of WP_Site_Query class
• Narrowed down loading of plugin's admin CSS file to Widgets page only
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.6

• Fixed wrong length of excerpts

• Added chmod after creation of public.css to ensure correct file permissions
• Revised excerpt creation

• Fixed old-to-new posts sort order in some installations to force new-to-old sort order
• Fixed outdated translation
• Added russian translation. Thank you very much, dmitriynn
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.5.2

• Added polish translation. Thank you very much, Marcin Mikolajczyk
• Improved: Manual excerpts are taken unchanged ("as is")
• I18n description in the backend's plugin list
• Added link to more versatile plugin Ultimate Post List Pro
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.5
• Updated *.pot file and translations

• Improved integration of 3rd party plugins for effects on the thumbnail

• Added option: Open post links in new windows
• Renamed back: Hook 'rpwwt-widget-title' to 'widget-title' to let 3rd party plugins change the title
• Improved sanitizing of stored variables

• Added option: Show post author
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend

• Added option: Random order of posts
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.4.2

• Renamed the hook names to avoid interferences with other functions of plugins and the theme. If you use these hooks for that plugin please change them: just place 'rpwwt_' before the hook names
• Improved: Last list item has no space anymore to the next widget to keep same spaces between widgets

• Fixed: widget title. Now if no title is entered no title is displayed (instead of showing the plugin's name)
• Fixed: commas in categories list. Commas are now internationalized (translated)

• Added option: Post categories
• Updated *.pot file and translations
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend

• Moved comment checkbox to position after form fields for the excerpt options
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.4

• Added option: Post title length
• Updated *.pot file and translations

• Added option: Show number of comments
• Updated *.pot file and translations

• Fixed search stop at more link
• Deleted visual intend of the linklist in some themes
• Refactored thumbnail size variable

• Added widget description based on backend language
• Corrected text domain name for translate.wordpress.org
• Renamed translation files

• Little adaptions for language files, ready for translate.wordpress.org
• Updated *.pot file and translations

• Added arabic translation. Thank you very much, Shadi AlZard
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.3.1

• Fixed alignment of text and thumbnail in right-to-left (RTL) languages. Please re-save the widget to get the correct layout in RTL languages.

• Added persian translation (Farsi). Thank you very much Sajjad Panahi
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.3

• Changed single selection of a category to selection of multiple categories
• Added DIV with id rpwwt-{widget_id} and class rpwwt-widget around list for available container with ensured attribute for CSS selectors
• Updated admin CSS
• Updated *.pot file and german translation
• Updated screenshot of widget in the backend
• Revised readme.txt

• Added category option: widget only lists posts of a selected category, else lists posts of all categories
• Added sticky posts option: widget shows sticky posts on top of the list, else lists them in normal order
• Added hide current post option: widget does not list the post where the user is currently on, else lists it
• Added CSS class names for easy designing of the list and its list items; see Description for details
• Added style sheet for Widget page in the backend
• Fixed missing custom image sizes in frontend
• Formatted the code more readable
• Updated *.pot file and german translation
• Updated screenshots
• Revised readme.txt

• Added default image sizes dropdown menu
• Added options to print out excerpts
• Updated *.pot file and german translation
• Refactored: HTML output moved into include files
• Slight improvements for security and performance

• Fixed bug of wrong path to public.css file
• Changed HTML class names, now they start with 'rpwwt-'

• Set CSS for the list style to prevent dots in some themes
• Added span element with class "post-title" around the title
• Tested successfully with WordPress 4.2

• Added option to keep aspect ratios of the original images
• Added option to hide the post title in the list
• Moved inline CSS to external file
• Revised *.pot file and german translation

• Successfully tested with WordPress 4.1
• Fixed bug which threw a warning in debug mode when accessing options

• Fixed bug which prevented to find the first content image
• Slightly revised algorithm for detecting the first image in post content

Revised algorithm to detect the first image in post content.

Successfully tested with WordPress 4.0

• Improve uninstall routine
• Tested successfully with WordPress 3.9.2

• Added option to set width and height of the thumbnails
• Added option to prefer first content image to featured image
• Added option to use only first content image as thumbnail
• Added option to set a default thumbnail
• Added function to delete plugin's settings in the database if the plugin is deleted
• Improved code for more robustness
• Revised *.pot file and german translation

• The plugin was released.

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