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Ok, I understand but what happens if I chose to display the_content and at the beginning of the_content I have an image?

That still won’t work. It needs to be a post thumbnail in order to show up at the thumbnail size.

When I use the widget fresh it shows 10 posts (full text with not-resized image) even though the content_length parameter is set to -1.

if the_content is set to -1, then the full post will show. that’s expected behavior.

The resize functionality only works with post thumbnails, not any images from within the post.

I change -1 to 30 and it shows the excerpt with 30 words, but does not show the thumbnail even if I set the widget to show the thumbnails and set the size for them.

You still have to set a post thumbnail for each post you want an image for. There’s a new panel called post thumbnails when you go to write/edit a post. Upload a new image, and it will work.

I set the posts_per_page to 3 but the widget keeps showing 10 posts. I change the content_length parameter to -1, and this time it only shows the titles.

Not sure why that didn’t work. Try deleting that widget, and drag and fresh new one over. If that doesn’t work, try downloading the plugin again. The latest version is 0.4

Maybe, .widget-title-1, .widget-title-2, etc, or user choosen the class name. This way, its possible set a different icon each section of widget in homepage.

if you want to target a specific title, target the parent div:
.widget-wrap-sidebar-1 .widget-title {}

Actually, I figured out a way using the [imp_slug]:

Extend: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/%5Bimp_slug%5D/
SVN Repo: https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/%5Bimp_slug%5D/
Trac Browser: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/%5Bimp_slug%5D/
Revision Log: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/log/%5Bimp_slug%5D/
Revision Log RSS: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/log/%5Bimp_slug%5D?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss
WP.org Support Tag: https://www.ads-software.com/tags/%5Bimp_slug%5D/
WP.org Support Tag RSS: https://www.ads-software.com/support/rss/tags/%5Bimp_slug%5D/

… be sure to add the [] (they’re getting cut off)

I have a small suggestion though: it would have been great to be able to wrap the thumbnail image in a link to the post…

In WordPress Loop 0.3, the post thumbnail is now linked to the post.

Set a class for title widget.

In WordPress Loop 0.3, you can now target the widget title via css .widget-title

Oh.. well the thumbnail sizes only apply to the post thumbnail feature not the images within the content. Try using the post thumbnail feature if you want to display one image next to the post.

I’d like to have more control over the output as I’d like to show the latest 5 updated pages. In a list.

In WordPress Loop 0.2, I’ve added the ability to customize the entry container. It can now be a div, ol, or ul.

Also currently the shortcode [date] is used. Is there a shortcode for last_modified?

In WordPress Loop 0.2, I’ve added a new shortcode [last_modified] for use in before_content and after_content.

More suggestions: Your “Read-Me” file needs some editing. There is not enough information there about the short codes and the codes the users can place in the widget. Also one of the sentences is cut off.

The same applies here in the WordPress “Extend Page”. I suggest adding an FAQ section to your plugin page.

In WordPress Loop 0.2, I’ve documented all the shortcodes and added an FAQ section in the readme.txt

How to show the excerpts instead of the whole posts?

Change the content_length param from -1 to 55 which stands for the word count.

I tested the plugin. At the beginning it showed the entire posts and the images. I changed the setting to see how it changes. I could never go back to the way it was on default. The images do not show up any more. How should I set it up to get the images again.

Check the enable post thumbnails feature and make sure you set the values in thumbnail_size_w/h. That should do the trick.

And two bug report:

I set “post_status” to publish but it goes back to All after I save the setting.

Can you confirm this again? I just tried setting the post_status to publish and it didn’t go back to ‘all’.

When it showed the images the first image was not re-sized.

The post thumbnail feature only works with newly uploaded images. Have you tried re-uploading it the image? I just tried changing the thumbnail size and it worked for me.

Oh wow, that’s sweet! Glad you choose to use WP Framework. How did you like working with it? Any problems or milestones you ran into while developing that theme?

Well in order for the screen layout columns to work, you have to have metaboxes enabled. As far as changing the screen columns for native admin pages in WP, some of them are already preset to a max of 2 or 1 so changing that requires a bit of hacking.

That link I posted above works as expected so try editing that one until you achieve your desired effect.

This should do the trick

– minus the strong tags. woops.

Running the code results in widget-1 insert-even on all widgets.

If we could probably get $widget_num to count how many widgets are loading on a page, that should solve the numbering/even-odd problem.

I can understand the even/odd but why add another widget-X class? The widgets already has unique identifiers. Another solution would be to add <div id="%1$s" class="<strong>widgets</strong> %2$s">