This video in this series provides an overview of how to setup a Recent Posts widget with thumbnails like the Luminescence theme demo website displays on its blog page. The widget is a plugin called Recent Posts Plus and offers many features that you can customize how the widget looks. Here is a demo of it in action:
Covered in this video:
- Introduction to the plugin.
- Getting the Recent Posts Plus plugin and setting it up.
- Using the widget to display recent (latest) posts with thumbnails.
Recent Post Plus Settings
In your original download of this theme, there is a folder called “Recent Posts Plus”, and inside this will be a text file that contains settings as well as a category setup and a recent post layout template you can use. You can also modify them to your needs as you feel fit.
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