Title: Get Latest Post
Author: Paul Schreiber
Published: <strong>February 5, 2011</strong>
Last modified: April 7, 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Get Latest Post

 By [Paul Schreiber](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulschreiber/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/get-latest-post.0.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/get-latest-post/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/get-latest-post/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/get-latest-post/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/get-latest-post/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/)

## Description

This plugin adds the ability to put a shortcode tag in any static page or post and
have it display an excerpt from your latest blog post.

There are no settings or options.

It generates markup like this, which you can style as desired:

    ```
    <div class='latest-post'>
    <p class='title'><a href='http://www.mysite.ca/blog/post'>Look ma, no hands!</a></p>
    <p class='excerpt'>Today I rode a bicycle &hellip;<a href="http://www.mysite.ca/blog/post">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
    </div>
    ```

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory and unzip it.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Place `[get_latest_post]` in your pages.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/982433ac839e5cb85cf2f5ee2206a5c67a991bb10e66cde654165c7904a17695?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[It does ONE thing and ONE thing only](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-does-one-thing-and-one-thing-only/)󠁿

 [LilGames](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lilgames/) September 3, 2016

It displays your latestest post. Great. Now if only there was a way to display just
the latest POST TITLE and nothing else (linked to the Post of course) I would be
happy. Can’t seem to find such a plugin.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Get Latest Post” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Paul Schreiber ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulschreiber/)

[Translate “Get Latest Post” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/get-latest-post)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/get-latest-post/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/get-latest-post/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/get-latest-post/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/get-latest-post/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.3

 * More WordPress VIP coding standards
 * refactored in to class
 * updated “tested up to” to 4.3.1

#### 0.2.2

 * WordPress VIP coding standards; updated “tested up to” to 4.1

#### 0.2.1

 * Updated “tested up to” to 3.9.1

#### 0.2

 * Call wp_reset_query() at the end.

#### 0.1

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **80+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.5.33**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/get-latest-post/)
 * Tags
 * [formatting](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/formatting/)[list](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/list/)
   [post](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)[posts](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mlt.wordpress.org/plugins/get-latest-post/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  0 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  2 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Paul Schreiber ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulschreiber/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-latest-post/)