[Support request] Someone know a good lightweight widget plugin?

[infotbd]

Hello all,

i have setup my website and it seems all fine (German website).

I want to use a good lightweight widget about popular posts and recent posts with the option of thumbnail but all plugins which i have tested are not that lightweight. I would love if both plugins from the same author so that they share ressources like thumbnails.

With the actual plugin about popular posts i get the message from gtmetrix: “The following images served from untrust.de should be combined into as few images as possible using CSS sprites.”

Any idea?

Best

[Tom]

Hi there,

You could try WP Show Posts: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/

Or Recent Posts Extended: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/

Let me know if that helps or not 🙂

[infotbd]

WP Show Posts seems pretty cool. Is there a option to display posts about most viewed or popular?

[Tom]

There isn’t unfortunately. You would need to implement some custom code for that. Likely a custom field with a counter that increases each time the page is loaded.

[infotbd]

Can you make maybe a code improvement that the thumbnails will be set with width and height in the code.

Best,
Dominic

[Tom]

I’m not sure what you mean? Can you explain a bit more?

[infotbd]

Sure. I have set in the plugin “WP Show Posts” the images with the size 45px/45px.

Actual the plugin generate the following code:
"<img src="https://*****/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bla_bla_735-45x45.png" alt="bla bla bla bla" />"

Can you improve this that the following code will be generated:
"<img width="45" height="45" src="https://*****/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bla_bla_735-45x45.png" alt="bla bla bla bla" itemprop="image" class="left" />"

The Logo of the generatepress Theme have the same topic – no width and height entries…

Best

[Tom]

Ah I understand – I’ll see if I can work those into the next updates 🙂

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