Rotating Posts: We’ve added a new control setting to rotate from each category, the number of posts you set in the widget. Remember you can have multiple widgets, and this new feature allows you to keep your content links fresh and provide maximum access to content from all your categories.

Above the new feature which rotates posts from each category (you specify the number shown) is illustrated. Each time a visitor comes to your site (or the screen is refreshed… or they go to the next page, etc.), a set of posts from a different category will be shown — a great way to provide maximum reference (MaxRef) to your content.

We’ve also added a date format dropdown for posts, plus RSS feeds, with icons, for all categories. Watch for the ability to rotate posts displayed from each category coming soon. We’re working hard to make MaxRef Widgets your best way to reference important content on your WordPress CMS sites.

New RSS for categories… each
feed delivers only posts from
that category.

Developed by Scott Frangos, Managing Partner for WebFadds.com, and originally programmed by Antonie Potgieter, the plugin is a powerful way to add unlimited widgets on your sidebars to display posts only from a certain category, the links from a particular link category, posts, comments and more. Current lead programmer since June 2009, is Sakin Shrestha. Choose how many items appear, to display an RSS feed for categories, and how to sort the links presented. It uses the latest WordPress methods and functions.

Installation…

1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
3. Go to your widgets area, and add a MaxRef Widget (as many as you want)
4. Click on Edit to configure your new widget to display Posts by Category, Pages, Links by Category, or Comments, and then select sorting method and other options.

Usage Examples…

Select how to reference your content in each MaxRef Widget you place in your sidebar. Above, the widget will display 5 most recent posts from the selected category with dates — new Date Format pop-down feature shown (added Feb. 2009)

(click to enlarge) – MaxRef Widgets are an excellent way to reference WordPress page groups (sets of Parent and Child pages) in your sidebars.

(click to enlarge) – MaxRef Widgets provides a feature to also turn the title into a link on your sidebar.

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• Bug fix to display Links

Version 1.9.1 (Mar. 1, 2009)

• Bug fixes
• Removed border around RSS icons

Version 1.9 (Feb. 18, 2009)

• Added rotation of post links by category
• Two Versions available: Free (link supported) Version – above | Donation supported Version (no link)

Version 1.8.1 (Feb. 12, 2009)

• Added RSS feeds, with icons, for all categories

Version 1.8 (Feb. 11, 2009)

• Added date format dropdown for posts

Version 1.7 (Aug. 25, 2008)

• Bug fix release (fixed dual link bug)

Version 1.6 (June 14, 2008)

• Linkable widget titles

Version 1.4 (May 22, 2008)

• Added Category (parent/child) link group capability

Version 1.3 (May 12, 2008)

• Add ability to turn top level (parent) page off or on when displaying page link groups

Version 1.2 (May 6, 2008)

• Add display of Page links by groups of Parent and Child pages
• Fix Link Category Display

Version 1.1 (May 1, 2008)

• Ability to Sort by Name or Date, Ascending or Descending
• Ability to add RSS feed per Category

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