Title: How to use
Last modified: May 27, 2017

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# How to use

 *  [newbie63](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newbie63/)
 * (@newbie63)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-98/)
 * Steve Stern on WordPress.org plugin forum, suggested that this plugin would let
   me highlight most recent blog post on my static front page. I see how Supercargo
   was using it, but I don’t want it in a sidebar.
 * How to I set up a space on the Home page that will feature the latest posting?
   Add all that code onto the page, I’m assuming? I see how you got posts before
   and after a certain date, but I’d like that date to be sort of rolling…grab the
   post for ‘today’s date’ or the one closest to it. How do I word that coding? (
   I’m a real techo-dummy, and code is definitely NOT my thing, so I need help explicitly
   spelled out.)
 * I’m using Happenstance theme, if that matters.
    Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [rajros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajros/)
 * (@rajros)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-98/#post-9251884)
 * Hi,
 * Sorry for the late response as it seems I missed the notification for this.
 * You can add the shortcode [recentposts-sc] in your “Latest Posts Page Widget 
   Area” widget
 * It will display on the homepage. Screenshot for reference
 * ![Screenshot](https://i0.wp.com/image.ibb.co/gqreSk/recent.png?ssl=1)
 * Or you can create a static page, make it as default homepage and add the shortcode[
   recentposts-sc] there.
 *  Thread Starter [newbie63](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newbie63/)
 * (@newbie63)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-98/#post-9252445)
 * Thanks for answering…better late than never, as they say. It’s ok. Gave me time
   to play with the plugin, and see how it works. Pretty good, actually. It will
   easily accomplish what I want and looks nice. Kudos! My apologies for not grasping
   immediately how to use it.
 * I understand that there are some parameters that I can set in that same place,
   as delineated somewhere that I saw–where a downloaded the plugin, I think. Anyway,
   that was pretty clear and worked well.
 * I noted that the user can also determine the size of the image. Curently, it 
   seems that if the plugin doesn’t find an image attached to the post, it places
   a sort of generic icon. I rarely have images attached to my blog posts. Is there
   a way to alter that default, so that it just eliminates the image placeholder
   altogether? Even if I had an image, it wouldn’t need to appear in this place,
   which is just to catch the reader’s attention.
 * And if that requires messing about in the actual plugin’s code, be really specific
   where to find it. (If it’s too complicated, don’t worry….I won’t be up to trying
   it)
 * Thank you for your assistance, and for a good plugin.

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/recent-posts-shortcode-widget/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev
   =1840317)
 * [Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-shortcode-widget/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-shortcode-widget/#faq)
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## Tags

 * [Coding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/coding/)
 * [date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/date/)
 * [front page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/front-page/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [newbie63](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newbie63/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-98/#post-9252445)
 * Status: not resolved