WP Frontpage News free WordPress plugin

NOTE: This WordPress news plugin is the free version of the plugin WP Latest posts witch can be found right here with a lot of information and demo: http://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts This plugin is not updated since one year. An updated version is available here: Frequently posting news on your website or want to display your content in a dynamic way? Breaking news! WP latest posts is right there for you. This WordPress news plugin has been built to, automatically format your content the way you want, display more information in a limited space to catch users, prevent article authors to break your WordPress theme layout and to focus only on content, display a news carousel on your home page or in sidebar widgets positions. Video demo: More details here: http://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts Live demo: http://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-demo/wp-latest-posts/public-demo The plugin is divided in 4 main configuration tabs: Select your content source ie. select a post category or pages and the display ordering Select your display options ie. choose a theme, choose the row and column number,… Select your thumbnail or featured image source, meaning where the thumbnail will be picked up and how it will be displayed Advanced parameters for date and all miscellaneous stuff Perfect to present large information, easy for final users. The Latest posts version 2 is now available, including a lot of amazing responsive themes, masonry themes, color chooser, unlimited widget, animation selection, automatic cropping for title and text (see hereunder). Basic Features (all available in this free, open-source version) Unlimited Latest posts instances Completely customizable news template Insert news blocks in the content editor with a button Display as a sidebar widget Select number of columns and pages in a news block Select number of elements (post, pages) to be loaded Dispatch and order content in each block with jQuery mouse drag-and-drop Select categories of the listed contents Limit the total number of displayed news items Select image source (featured image thumbnail, first image attachment, or post first image) Add custom margins around images Create carrousel sliding news displays with a few clicks Full out-of-the box support of WordPress default theme and most common custom themes and styling WP Latest posts features (optional, still open-source version) 6 month personal ticket support of professional level 4 responsive premium themes Masonry themes Time line theme Unlimited sidebar widget instances Multiple instance per page Automatic cropping of title using number of words, characters or lines Automatic cropping of text excerpt using number of word, characters or lines Automatic animation of sliders Change animation type Choose of default image ion case there’s no image in content (upload it yourself) Support WordPress tag as content source Choose your “read more” text Select content by tags Default vector images Filter news by date Easy Install: download the premium addon and run! Support Detailed documentation, information and support can be found here on the JoomUnited website Revisions 1.0.2. Stable release of 2014-05-09 ( compatible with pro add-on v.1.0.0 ) 1.0.1. Stable release of 2014-04-24 ( compatible with pro add-on v.1.0.0 ) 1.0.0. Stable release of 2014-04-18 ( compatible with pro add-on v.1.0.0 ) 0.2.4. Beta 5 release of 2014-01-21 ( compatible with pro add-on v.0.2.0 ) 0.2.3. Beta 4 release of 2013-12-12 ( compatible with pro add-on v.0.2.0 ) 0.2.2. Beta 3 release of 2013-10-23 ( compatible with pro add-on v.0.2.0 ) 0.2.1. Beta 2 release of 2013-10-22 ( compatible with pro add-on v.0.2.0 ) 0.2.0. Initial (beta) release of 2013-10-17 0.1.0. Initial (alpha) release of 2013-10-03 Requirements PHP 5.3 or better. (PHP 5.2 or lower is no longer supported) Misc. This plugin is the official long-awaited replacement to the popular YD Recent Posts Widget With Thumnails plugin for WordPress that I developed a few years ago and was no longer maintained. Its out-of-the box features are equivalent to the former plugin, with full WP3.8+ compatibility and guaranteed support. Enjoy! Detailed documentation, information and support can be found here on the JoomUnited website