GS Blog v1.4

[mikeh]

Version 1.2 Added To Extend

• Custom Fields Implemented
  
• Added options for show_recent_posts() function to optionally display
  excerpt, read more link, show thumbnails, and define the excerpt length
  
• Added ability to template the blog pages (from the settings page)
  
• Updated Spanish language file
  
• Various other minor changes
  

I tested the new version multiple times using a clean install and did not catch any bugs. But as there is quite a drastic change in the plugins functionality in version 1.2, please bare with me if you run into a bug. I will try my best to work out any bugs that might occur and improve usability of the custom fields as quickly as I can.

Hi. I have been implementing this plugin into one of my sites, and I have ran in to a similar problem to what users 'focoves' and 'Shawn_a' have been having. Basically, I wanted to have the news items display on the latest news page and in the sidebar of the homepage. I have managed to do this, however, I was wondering if it's possible to also include the thumbnail?

I have used the code mentioned in comments 134 and 138 (this worked superb by the way) and just wondered if there was any way of adapting this code to handle this? Any help would be appreciated...

I have added the requested functionality to the new version.
You will see below you have the option to provide "true" to display the thumbnail and you can provide a string, such as "Read More" to display the read more link:

Code:

show_blog_recent_posts($excerpt=false, $excerpt_length=null, $thumbnail=null, $read_more=null)

Usage Example:

Code:

<?php show_blog_recent_posts(true, 120, true, 'Click To Read More'); ?>