recent_articles

The recent_articles tag is a single tag which is used to produce a list of permanent links to recent articles by title.

attributes

section="unset" 

• Restrict to articles from specified section(s).
• Values: (comma separated list of) section name(s).

category="unset" 

• Restrict to articles from specified category/ies. Note: category names may be different to the Title you typed when you created the category. Check the Categories tab to ensure you are using the correct names.
• Values: (comma separated list of) category name(s).

sort="Posted desc" 

• Values
  • ID (article id#)
  • Posted (date posted)
  • Expires (expiry date)
  • AuthorID (author name)
  • LastMod (date last modified)
  • LastModID (author name of last modification)
  • Title
  • Image (article image id#)
  • Category1
  • Category2
  • comments_count
  • Status
  • Section
  • Keywords
  • url_title
  • custom_1 through custom_10
    • Note: Each field in the “textpattern” table can be used as a sort key.
  • rand() (random)
• Direction
  • asc (ascending)
  • desc (descending)

limit="10" (integer) 

• Number of articles to display.

no_widow="Whatever is set in Advanced Preferences" (boolean)

• Whether to inhibit line breaks in titles which would leave just a single word on the last line (widows).
• Values: 0 single words allowed; 1 single words not allowed on their own line

presentation

label="Recent Articles" 

• Label prepended to item (or as first list item, where appropriate).
• if wraptag is available and is set to ol or ul, the label will be the first list item.

labeltag="unset" 

• (X)HTML tag (without brackets) to wrap around label.

break="br" 

• (X)HTML tag (without brackets) or string to separate list items.

wraptag="unset" 

• (X)HTML tag (without brackets) to wrap around the list.

class="recent_articles" 

• (X)HTML class attribute to apply to the wraptag.

genealogy

Version 4.0.6

• support added for comma separated lists for section and category attributes