Title: Adding new features (like shortcodes/widgets)
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding new features (like shortcodes/widgets)

 *  [dtbaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtbaker/)
 * (@dtbaker)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-features-like-shortcodeswidgets/)
 * Hey buddy, great plugin! just loaded it up here [http://ultimateclientmanager.com/forums/](http://ultimateclientmanager.com/forums/)
   
   I’m creating some shortcodes so I can show a list of unread posts on the page
   when certain users are logged in (eg: admins). Where can I send updates for you
   to consider including in this plugin? Cheers, Dave
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/)

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 *  [Daniel J. Lewis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djosephdesign/)
 * (@djosephdesign)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-features-like-shortcodeswidgets/#post-3555462)
 * Dave, I’m very interested in your updates because I need that functionality to
   have an “unread posts” page for my bbPress forum.
 *  Thread Starter [dtbaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtbaker/)
 * (@dtbaker)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-features-like-shortcodeswidgets/#post-3555463)
 * [@djosephdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djosephdesign/) thanks for
   reminding me. I don’t think I ended up creating this ‘unread post’ shortcode.
   I’ll give it a crack today and post back here.
 *  Thread Starter [dtbaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtbaker/)
 * (@dtbaker)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-features-like-shortcodeswidgets/#post-3555464)
 * Here is my current solution with code: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17416593/wordpress-query-post-compare-between-postmeta-values-using-meta-query-argument](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17416593/wordpress-query-post-compare-between-postmeta-values-using-meta-query-argument)
 * it works, but it’s not very good.
 * Hopefully someome chimes in with a better solution (this code is up on the forum
   linked in my first post, the only problem is paging of unread posts doesn’t work)

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 * Last reply from: [dtbaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtbaker/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-features-like-shortcodeswidgets/#post-3555464)
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