Widget to display most recent 10 pages published

Do you actually mean the last 10 Posts? If so, where would you be displaying this list?

I know there is a widget to display posts and you can set how many to display. What I need is a sidebar widget that will display the 10 latest pages published. I have a site and there are 2 pages published every day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
The reason it is pages is long and complicated so this is what I have.
I just need to display 10 page links for the last 10 pages, 5 morning pages and 5 afternoon pages. I tried this:

<?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'page',
	'orderby' => 'post_date',
	'showposts' => '3'
        );
$posts = get_posts($args);
if ($posts) {
foreach($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<p><a>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
<?php
}

but just got the same link repeated. At least this code…

<?php
$howmany = 10;

$pages = wp_list_pages("echo=0&title_li=");

$pages_arr = explode("\n", $pages);

for($i=0;$i<$howmany;$i++){
	echo $pages_arr[$i];
}

?>

did show different links even if they were alphanumeric. I just need them to be in date order, showing only the latest 10.

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there is no harm looking into the Codex when using some functions;

for instance the info for 'wp_list_pages()' will reveal that there is a 'sort_column' parameter:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages#Parameters

sort_column
(string) Sorts the list of Pages in a number of different ways. The default setting is sort alphabetically by Page title.

• ‘post_title’ – Sort Pages alphabetically (by title) – default
• …
• ‘post_date’ – Sort by creation time.
• ‘post_modified’ – Sort by time last modified.
• …

I had a quick look, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me if I’m honest. Just not sure how I add a ‘post_date’ sort column to this code.

<?php
$howmany = 10;

$pages = wp_list_pages("echo=0&title_li=");

$pages_arr = explode("\n", $pages);

for($i=0;$i<$howmany;$i++){
	echo $pages_arr[$i];
}

?>

$howmany=10; is pretty straighforward and I think $pages is a variable of the listed pages…then at (“echo=0&title I just get lost! Any ideas how I sort the pages by date and just show the latest 10?

try:

$pages = wp_list_pages("echo=0&title_li=&sort_column=post_date&sort_order=DESC");

You beauty! Thank you so much. How hard it was to do this? I have scoured the web for this solution. So here it is the final code that lists the latest 10 pages in a sidebar text widget.

<ul>

<?php
$howmany = 10;

$pages = wp_list_pages("echo=0&title_li=&sort_column=post_date&sort_order=DESC");

$pages_arr = explode("\n", $pages);

for($i=0;$i<$howmany;$i++){
	echo $pages_arr[$i];
}

?>

<ul>

Simply install the “PHP text widget” here https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/php-text-widget/ and drop the snippet of code in a regular text sidebar widget and you are done other than styling it up with CSS.

Thanks for the code. I’ve been trying to do this for a week now. Thanks!