Next Recent Posts Widget

Next-generation Recent Posts widget which fetches posts via the WP REST API and dynamically renders data with JavaScript templates.

Contributors: westonruter, xwp
Requires at least: 4.7.0
Tested up to: 4.9.0
Stable tag: trunk (master)
License: GPLv2 or later
Requires PHP: 5.4

Description

Next-generation Recent Posts widget which fetches posts via the WP REST API, renders then into the widget via JavaScript templates, and provides a JS-driven customizer control via JS Widgets.

This plugin was developed to showcase the Customize REST Resources plugin. Also try the widget with the Customize Posts plugin installed (v0.8.5+) as you'll be able to edit posts in the customizer and see their changes apply live in the widget. Selective refresh is used not to re-render the widget but rather to fetch the rendered fields on the REST API resources used in the widget.