Title: Plugin Name: Highlight Post Widget
Author: lokamaya
Published: <strong>སྤྱི་ཟླ་གསུམ་པ། 9, 2010</strong>
Last modified: སྤྱི་ཟླ་གསུམ་པ། 15, 2010

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Plugin Name: Highlight Post Widget

 By [lokamaya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lokamaya/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/highlight-post-widget.1.0.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-post-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-post-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-post-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-post-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/highlight-post-widget/)

## Description

The purpose of this plugin is simple. I want to list recents update of my posts.
Similiar to default “Recent Posts Widget” by WordPress, but this one sort the post
by last modified time and enable to add a short note about change or update being
made.

For example, I maintaince a wordpress plugin (we name it, “Hollydolly Plugin”) and
create a post about it on my blog. And because the nature of blog—when new posts
are added the older ones are taken down automatically—it’s only a matter of time
that post ‘disappeared’ from frontpage and no longer seen by visitor. So, when I
release a new version of “Hollydolly Plugin” and updated the old post about it, 
unfortunately, there is no way I can do to ‘attract’ visitor to read (again) that
post.

Right, in the new version of WordPress (since version 2.7) there is an option to
make it as sticky post—make it listed on the top of frontpage. But that not my choice.
I want to list it on my sidebar and displayed all over my blog. So I create this
plugin for that purpose.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Add or edit the custom field to be displayed as a note on the sidebar as you 
   can find in screenshot-1.png

## Installation

#### Requirement:

I create this plugin for WordPress version 2.9.2. I never test it on lower version,
but I think it should work on WordPress version 2.8 that support dynamic sidebar.
Right, you also must use ‘widget ready‘ theme.

#### Installation:

How to install this plugin manually

 * Download: download the plugin to your computer
 * Extract & Upload: extract the source code and upload it to your wordpress plugin
   directory
 * Activate: login to WP-Admin and activate Highlight Post plugin from Plugins page.

#### Appearance/CSS:

I did not add any CSS to this plugin. By default, it will use the standard style,
as same as “Recent Post” widget. Below are the hint to change the style of this 
widget.

Just add the code below to your style.

Template CSS:

 * #sidebar li.widget_highlight_post {your_code_goes_here}
 * #sidebar li.widget_highlight_post span.highlight_separator {your_code_goes_here}
 * #sidebar li.widget_highlight_post span.highlight_note {your_code_goes_here}

The Example:

 * #sidebar li.widget_highlight_post {}
 * #sidebar li.widget_highlight_post a span.highlight_separator{font-weight: bold;
   color: #999999 !important;}
 * #sidebar li.widget_highlight_post a span.highlight_note{display: block; color:#
   999999 !important; font-size:11px; line-height:100%;}

## FAQ

  How to change the appearance?

You have to edit style.css of your theme and add some code as mentioned in **Installation**
instruction.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Plugin Name: Highlight Post Widget” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ lokamaya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lokamaya/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlight-post-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/highlight-post-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/highlight-post-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/highlight-post-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Released this plugin

#### 1.0.2

 * Fix: missing UL close tag when generating widget

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-post-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [Highlight](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/highlight/)[post](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [sidebar](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)[widget](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://dzo.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-post-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ lokamaya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lokamaya/)

## Support

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