Beautiful Recent Posts 5.0.0

Beautiful Recent Posts 5.0.0

• New teal editorial branding, SVG icon, and standard/retina directory banners.
• Added a native block, shortcode, list/card layouts, category and ordering controls.
• Added optional author, excerpt, thumbnail shape, metadata, and current-post exclusion.
• Preserved the original WordPress.org plugin filename, saved classic widget IDs and original settings.
• Migrates activation from the GitHub-only 4.x filename on single-site and multisite installations.
• Replaced unused data-retina markup with native responsive images.
• Bounded and sanitized settings; excluded private and password-protected content.
• Added PHP integration tests, JavaScript checks, CI, and reproducible ZIP packaging.
• Raised minimum requirements to WordPress 6.6 and PHP 7.4.
• Standardized the translation domain to beautiful-recent-posts-widget for directory language packs.