Description
CPO Widgets is a WordPress plugin that provides you with an number of essential widgets for any website. They give you additional functionality to easily display more varied content in your sidebars, such as images or tweets.
This plugin adds the following available widgets:
Recent Posts – A more powerful version of the default recent posts widget provided by WordPress. This widget allows you to display a thumbnail of each post and also to choose which post type to display.
Ad Space – Easily insert images without having to resort to writing HTML in a text widget. You can also link the image or add your own advertising code.
Social Profiles – Add links to your preferred social profiles, being able to choose from a long list of available social networks.
Recent Tweets – Display your latest tweets from any Twitter account. This widgets provides support for the Twitter API 1.1.
Flickr Images – Show your latest images from a Flickr account right into your sidebar, and linking to your Flickr gallery.
Author Badge – Display the profile of a specific user, showing the name, image, and profile description.
Included Widgets
- Recent Posts
- Image Banner widget
- Social Profiles widget
- Recent Tweets widget
- Flickr Images widget
- Author Badge widget
Screenshots
Display your most recent posts with a more stylish design 
Insert images into your sidebars without having to code HTML 
Add your latest tweets without cumbersome setting pages 
Show the latest Flickr photos from a Flirck account 
Display a list of links to your social profiles
Installation
Installing Through The WordPress Admin
- Download the ZIP file
- In your WordPress admin area, go to Plugins > Add Plugin, and select Upload Plugin
- Upload the ZIP file and installation will commence
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Make sure to check the Settings > CPO Shortcodes page before using it right away!
- You are now ready to use the shortcodes from the WordPress Visual Editor
Installing Through FTP
- Download the ZIP file and unpack it
- Upload the entire cpo-shortcodes to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Make sure to check the Settings > CPO Shortcodes page before using it right away!
- You are now ready to use the shortcodes from the WordPress Visual Editor
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“CPO Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.0.2
- Added a new Author Badge widget, which displays a specific author.
- Updated all widgets to reflect better coding practices.
1.0.2
- Removed Twitter icon from Latest Tweets to save space.
- Added a post type field to recent posts widget, so you may choose which ones to display.
- Fixed the styling on recent posts to accommodate posts without thumbnails.
1.0.1
- Minor fixes to styling.
1.0
- Plugin release, yay!