›Recently Added Posts in WordPress Without a Plugin
This entry was posted on Feb 03 2011
In this tutorial i will teach you how to Show Recently Added Post with Thumbnail in WordPress Without a Plugin, this is very easy tutorial, this problem will be solved within a few lines code…
The Beginning
First of all open your “single.php” file from your theme folder.
Creating Codings
Copy & Paste the below code where you want to show the Most Commented Posts.
<div id="relatedpost">
<?php
// showposts = show how much recently added post? default is 10.
$recent = new WP_Query('showposts=10'); ?>
<h2>Recently Added Post</h2>
<?php while ($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();
$avatar = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumbnail', true); /// <-thumbnail is the name of a custom field ?>
<div class="relatedpost">
<div class="avatar"><img src="<?php echo $avatar; ?>" width="60" height="60"></div>
<div class="rtitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
<div class="desc"><?php the_excerpt();?></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
Understanding $avatar = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘thumbnail’, true);
‘thumbnail’ is the name of a Custom Field, in which we save the url of the avatar look at the below example:

Creating Css Style
Now open your theme “stylesheet(style.css)” and Copy & Paste the below css code in the stylesheet.
#relatedpost {
background-color:#FFF;
}
#relatedpost .relatedpost{
margin:4px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
border-bottom:1px dotted #CCC;
margin-bottom:8px;
margin-top:5px;
}
#relatedpost .avatar{
float: left;
margin-right:6px;
border: 2px solid #C9C9C9;
}
#relatedpost .rtitle{
font-size:16px;
color: #333;
font-weight:bold;
letter-spacing:0px;
line-height:16px;
padding-top:1px;
}
#relatedpost .desc{
font-size:12px;
line-height:19px;
color: #666;
}
Thats it we are finished!
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