=== Ultimate Posts Widget ===
Contributors: cl272
Donate link: https://sellcodes.com/5U4SICyc
License: MIT
License URI: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
Tags: widget, recent posts, custom post types, sticky posts, featured image, post thumbnail, excerpts, category, custom fields, list pages, widget query, microformats, customizable widget, categories widget, tags widget, excerpt, widget templates, post author, post date, custom query, ultimate posts, comments, orderby, comment count
Requires at least: 3.5
Tested up to: 6.1
Stable tag: 2.2.4
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.
== Description ==
**Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => [https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget](https://demo.tastewp.com/ultimate-posts-widget).**
(this trick works for all plugins in the WP repo - just replace "wordpress" with "tastewp" in the URL)
UPDATE: Plugin ownership changed for this plugin. We are currently evaluating possible enhancements for it. Stay tuned! If you have any suggestions yourself, please let us know in the Support Forum.
Note: This is a **classic widget** type, in order for it to work on the latest version of WordPress you will need [Classic Widgets](https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/) plugin installed on your site.
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options to customize the display.
Designed for both the average user and developer, Ultimate Posts Widgets aims to provide flexibility and ease of use for displaying any kinds of posts within your widget areas. An array of widget options are available as well as hooks, filters and custom templates for more advanced customization.
= Options =
* Filter by categories
* Filter by current category
* Filter by tags
* Filter by current tag
* Filter by custom post types
* Filter by sticky posts
* Select number of posts to display
* Display title
* Display publish date/time with custom format options
* Display post author and link
* Display post comment count
* Display excerpt or full content
* Display read more link with custom label
* Display featured image and at any size
* Display post categories
* Display post tags
* Display custom fields
* Add text or HTML before and after posts list
* Add CSS class to widget
* Add widget title link
* Change excerpt length (in words)
* Order by date, title, number of comments, random or a custom field
* Exclude current post from the list
= Documentation =
See the [FAQ tab](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/faq/) for documentation on custom templates, hooks, common issues, and more.
= Support =
For help please ask in the [Support Forum](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-posts-widget/)
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This plugin is part of the Inisev product family - [check out our other products](https://inisev.com).
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= Filters =
**upw_enqueue_styles** *(boolean)*
Allows changing whether to load the template CSS file(s).
**upw_wp_query_args** *(array)*
Allows changing the WP_Query arguments for the widget.
**upw_custom_template_path** *(string)*
Allows changing the default custom template path.
= Templates =
**legacy**
As of version 2.0.0 we changed the widget HTML markup. For installs prior to 2.0.0 you can use the legacy template to retain the old HTML markup and compatibility.
**standard**
The new standard template as of version 2.0.0. It features better HTML5 markup, improved styling on various themes without the need for custom CSS, and hfeed microformat.
**custom**
As of version 2.0.0 you can now provide your own custom template files. To do this, create a directory named `upw` in your theme and copy a template from the plugin's `templates` directory. Edit as needed.
Then, in the widget settings under the *Display* tab, choose *Custom* from the *Template* drop down. In the *Custom Template Name* field that appears and enter the file name of your template (excluding .php). For example, if your template is named `custom.php` then enter `custom` in the *Custom Template Name* field.
= Images sizes =
*As of version 2.0.0, the plugin no longer supports setting custom image sizes from the widget options panel.*
To change image sizes you can either edit the built-in sizes (thumbnail, medium, and large) or define a custom image size in your theme `functions.php`.
**Edit built-in image sizes:** Go to *Settings > Media* and change the image sizes as desired. Once image sizes are changed you will need to regenerate thumbnails to update any existing images. This can be done with [AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild/) or [Regenerate Thumbnails](https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/) plugins. Note that this will affect image sizes for the entire site.
**Define a custom image size:** Edit your `functions.php` file and add a new image size with the `add_image_size` function. See the [WordPress codex for documentation](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size). Once the function is added, your custom size will be available to select from the widget options. Like editing a built-in size, you will need to regenerate thumbnails for existing images.
Example:
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= Thumbnail images are not displaying =
*As of version 2.0.0 timthumb is no longer used.*
This plugin uses the [timthumb library](http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/projects/timthumb/) to resize post thumbnails. Please review these requirements and troubleshooting tips if you are having problems displaying thumbnails.
* Right click > view image - If an image isn't loading then this is the first thing you should do. 9 times out of 10 it will tell you what the problem is in an easy to read error message.
* JetPack plugin - There is a known conflict between JetPack's "Photon" component, please disable it for compatibility with timthumb.
* Server requirements - PHP and the GD image library must be installed on your web server. Normally most web servers include them by default.
* Cache permissions - The cache directory `wp-content/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/cache` should be set to 777 or if that doesn't work, you may find 755 is ok.
* Image sizes - timthumb is configured to only work for images smaller than 1500 x 1500. The plugin and automatically selects the "Large" size from Settings > Media, if it is greater than 1500 x 1500 you will need to reduce the size or modify the configuration in `thumb.php` to support larger image sizes.
* Tilde(~) in url - timthumb has a known issue with this, please use a url without a tilde until a fix is available. [Bug report](https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/issues/detail?id=263)
* Thumbnail images only work with WordPress' native post thumbnail / featured image. Many theme use a custom image field for thumbnails, these are not supported.
**Still stuck?** See [additional troubleshooting tips](http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2010/11/timthumb-hints-tips/) from the timthumb author.
== Screenshots ==
1. Example with TwentyTwelve theme with the default widget options
2. General options tab
3. Display options tab
4. Filter options tab
5. Order options tab
== Changelog ==
= 2.2.4 =
* Adjusted PHP compatibility
= 2.2.3 =
* Added try it out module
= 2.2.2 =
* Tested up to WordPress 6.1-RC5
* Adjusted carrousel module
* Updated try it out URL in readme to properly setup demo site
= 2.2.1 =
* Tested up to WordPress 6.0
* Tested with PHP 8.1
= 2.2.0 =
* Tested up to WordPress 5.7.1
* Added support for PHP 8
* Updated banner
= 2.1.6 =
* Tested up to WordPress 5.4.2
* Updated Opt-in
= 2.1.5 =
* Tested up to WordPress 5.4.1
* Changed info
= 2.1.4 =
* Plugin has been updated up to WordPress 5.4
= 2.1.3 =
* Hotfixed issue
= 2.1.2 =
* Serval improvements
= 2.1.1 =
* Added possibility to exclude current post from the list
* Tested update WordPress 5.3.3 (beta)+
= 2.1.0 =
* Added possibility for changing custom message when no posts.
* Increased stability of the plugin
* Fixed filtering
* Tested update WordPress 5.3.2+
= 2.0.9 =
* Replaced deprecated code
= 2.0.8 =
* Plugin revival
* Feedback system integrated
* Readme updated
= 2.0.7 =
* Tested update WordPress 4.8
= 2.0.6 =
* Fix PHP notice (thanks @rhyswynne)
* Search custom template both in child theme and in parent (thanks @groucho75)
= 2.0.5 =
* Adds menu order sort by option
= 2.0.4 =
* Updated class constructor for WordPress 4.3 compatibility (thanks @JustB)
= 2.0.3 =
* Adds link to thumbnail images
* Adds option to show all categories, tags, or types for better usability
* Improve spacing and font sizes on some themes for the standard template
* Document adding custom image sizes
* Add option to display full size post thumbnail
* Remove post_class() from legacy template for better backwards compatibility
= 2.0.2 =
* Reverts back to using `widget_title` filter
* Fixes number of posts setting to allow unlimited amounts
* Adds instance and widget ID variables to filters for more control
= 2.0.1 =
* Fixes issue loading multiple widgets on the same page and using the same template
* Adds a default title to the widget for new instances
* Documentation improvements
= 2.0.0 =
* Added a new standard template and custom template support
* Added basic CSS styles for better formatting
* Add hfeed microformat into new standard template
* Improved widget options interface
* Add option to filter by tags or current tag
* Remove timthumb in favor of using built-in WordPress image sizes
* Remove widget "More Button" options
* Change date display options to now accept any custom date formats
* Add before and after posts HTML fields
* Add option for widget CSS class (thanks @avenirer)
* Add option to display comment count
* Set better defaults for newly created widgets
* Various bug fixes and optimizations
*Upgrading from an earlier version?*
* Upgrades from prior to 2.0.0 we retain the "legacy" template for you. To change which template to use, find the "Template" option under the "Display" tab.
* If you used the "More Button", you will need to add in your own HTML into one of the new fields since the more button is now removed.
* If you used custom thumbnail settings you will need to update them. You can now choose from pre-defined sizes available to WordPress. If you need an additional image size please see [how to add image sizes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size).
* Date formatting has changed, you will need to update your settings. By default it uses WordPress' date/time options.
= 1.9.0 =
* Adds option to order by custom field (thanks @enekochan)
* Remove "Permalink to:" from link titles (thanks @wirelessgizmo)
* Swedish translation (thanks @brstp)
= 1.8.1 =
* Add content display option
= 1.8 =
* Add custom field display
* Re-organized widget options
* Use proper alt tag for image thumbnails
* Better title attribute for links
= 1.7 =
* Added show author option
* Added class to highlight current post
* Fixed PHP error notices
= 1.6 =
* Added localization support
* Added show post categories option
* Added show post tags option
* Added custom widget title URL option
* Improved filter controls for sticky posts
* Bug fixes
= 1.5.1 =
* Upgrade timthumb to 2.8.11
* Load "Large" size post thumbnails which should eliminate large image errors
* Improved FAQ for thumbnail troubleshooting
= 1.5 =
* Adds crop mode option
* Add show published time option
* Now uses date / time format settings
* Bug fixes
= 1.4.5 =
* Updates screenshot
= 1.4.4 =
* Fixes show_readmore function
* Adds more button link option
= 1.4 =
* Cleaner widget options
* Code refactoring and fixes
* Adds order by option
= 1.3 =
* Sticky posts only now optional
= 1.2 =
* Added post type filter option.
* Code cleanup.
* Better selection mechanism for categories.
= 1.1 =
* Added category filter option.
= 1.0 =
* First release.
== Upgrade Notice ==
= 2.2.4 =
* Adjusted PHP compatibility
== Installation ==
1. Download and extract the zip archive
2. Upload `ultimate-posts-widget` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Add the widget to a sidebar and configure the options as desired
Assuming you’ve just met the other person, they might form a lasting impression of who you are and the type of person you seem to be. This anchoring can be extremely difficult to later overcome. I’ve identified ten game-changing AI applications that are reshaping small business success. For example, during the middle game, it captured its bishop with its queen.
Stockfish captured the king and was crowned the undisputed champion of AI chess. Stockfish, ever the professional, ignored the nonsense and methodically cornered ChatGPT’s king. With one final move, Stockfish delivered the coup de grace by crowning a pawn and using its new queen to put the king in check.
Some people do a one-and-done angle whereby they ask a question, get an answer, and do not undertake a dialogue with the AI about the matter at hand. That is a shortchanging of what AI can more fully provide. See my explanation about how to get more out of generative AI conversationally, at the link here. I’ll focus on ChatGPT but note that the other AI apps generated roughly similar responses.
Additionally, the company should probably also add a system that checks for duplicate requests and limits them. Research on the enthralling topic of “embodiment intelligence” encompassing both humankind and artificial or AI kind is wrestling mightily with these provocative and unresolved questions. The notion of agentic AI is that we could have multiple generative AI instances serving as your agents or assistants to accomplish some particular tasks.
A generative AI conversation can continue for as long as you wish. The other thing you can do is pause your exploration and then continue the conversation at a later date. This is handy so that you don’t have to start the conversation over from scratch. The AI will retain aspects of what you have discussed earlier in the conversation, see my explanation of how this works at the link here. The idea is that you are carrying on an interactive dialogue with AI.
In the meantime, we can only hope that nobody takes advantage of this flaw while it’s there. A major security flaw in ChatGPT could allow bad actors to use the API to perform mass DDoS attacks. Researchers have reported the issue to OpenAI and have called upon the company to fix the underlying infrastructure to help cut off access to this potential cyberattack. In order to do so, please follow the posting rules in our site’sTerms of Service. Let’s conclude with a supportive quote on the overall notion of using icebreakers and engaging in conversations with other people. You tell the AI in a prompt that the AI is to pretend to be a person who is having challenges starting conversations.
“And don’t laugh at these games; they’re only slightly worse than the quality of your games,” he added. The highlights were probably the seven times Grok blundered its queen (putting it under attack) and Gemini, perhaps relying on a secret ethical code shared among AIs, never captured the all-important piece. Things took a turn when Grok casually left pieces hanging, prompting Gemini to expand its position by removing its knight from the board to make space for a pawn.
They must use the muscles in their legs to push up against this mysterious unseen force. A center of balance must be established to remain upright. Envision that a baby or toddler tries to stand up, wobbles, and then topples over. It is occurring 24×7 and in pretty much any place since generative AI is available online and nearly free or at a minimal cost to anyone who wants to sign up and use it. Keep your fingers crossed as this uncontrolled experiment is getting bigger each passing day.
Why Agentic AI Will Soon Make ChatGPT Look Like A Simple Calculator.
Posted: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:50:26 GMT [source]
Please read the full list of posting rules found in our site’s Terms of Service. Motivated by this, enterprise software suppliers are scrambling to find efficient and expedient ways to bridge the OT-IT gap. Instead of trying to push IT technologies into the OT world, suppliers are now moving to a straightforward “data first” mindset, which is a new way of thinking about OT integration. Driven by industrial customers eager to accelerate business transformation, OT suppliers are seeking expedient ways to bridge the OT-IT gap. Likewise, AI suppliers (including Nvidia) are doubling down on physical AI.
Nvidia’s AI ecosystem is solid, and the company has a lot riding on physical AI. Plus the company has become a prime mover in AI, and it is blessed with a mountain of money and a very, very long list of enterprise customers thirsty for its wares. All of that makes Cosmos and Omniverse good bets, and indeed customers are already developing solutions on the platform. For instance, my firm’s CEO and chief analyst Patrick Moorhead recently wrote about how Nvidia, Accenture and KION are collaborating to digitize warehouse operations. He shares my optimism about Nvidia’s physical AI platform. Enterprises with physical infrastructure can begin using these tools immediately while planning on large-scale deployments within the next year or two.
The major generative AI apps are available 24×7 and can instantly assist with your icebreaking preparation needs. Preparing and practicing icebreakers with a confidant or advisor is certainly well-advised. Getting your icebreakers up-to-speed via the behind-the-scenes use of generative AI.
The IIoT connectivity barrier is coming down, but not fast enough to keep up with physical AI growth. IT systems have uniform architectures, but OT systems do not. In line with what I explained earlier, I recommend bridging the OT-IT gap with simple interfaces that gather OT data as-is rather than intrusively customizing IIoT devices. The good news here is that the focus on physical AI by Nvidia and others provides more impetus to achieve these connections.
Of course, we won’t know for sure until the company announces it. Or, perhaps it will solve the issue quietly without bringing much more attention to it. The latter is less likely, as tech companies like this tend to be very open with the resolution of big issues that security researchers have pointed out.
Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. This is, obviously, a huge issue and one that will need to be fixed quickly to avoid any large-scale issues. Thankfully, the solution should be fairly simply, Flesch outlines. All OpenAI really needs to do here is implement a series of stringent limits on the number of URLs that a user can submit through the system.
The game concluded with ChatGPT delivering a clean checkmate, mercifully putting an end to one of the more bizarre chess games ever played. After being called out for its antics, ChatGPT orchestrated a series of logical attacks, coordinating its queen and rook to corner Meta AI’s remaining king and pawns. ChatGPT confidently started with the English opening, setting up a textbook position with precise, logical moves.
Note that the AI immediately expressed a sense of empathy or understanding for my expressed concerns. This might seem strange since the AI is a machine and not sentient (we don’t have sentient AI yet). Turns out that generative AI can appear to be empathetic via computational wordsmithing, see my discussion at the link here. The example involves me pretending to be going to an event and I want ChatGPT to aid me with identifying some handy icebreakers. A means to solve this ice-breaking advice-giving dilemma would be to consider using modern-era generative AI.
I am betting that you would like to see an example of how generative AI enters this realm. I went ahead and logged into ChatGPT by OpenAI to come up with an example for you. You might find it of keen interest that ChatGPT garners a whopping 300 million weekly active users. This same advisor might also provide suggestions about icebreakers that you could consider using.
The tournament streamed on Rozman’s GothamChess channel and pitted professional chess engine Stockfish against seven generative AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Elon Musk’s Grok from X. That work might involve catching up on some of the commercial features that ChatGPT can already offer. Amodel said that Anthropic will release smarter models in the coming months without providing a specific timeframe. These models might be similar to OpenAI’s reasoning models (think ChatGPT o1 and o3), though the CEO doesn’t appreciate this designator. Amodei offers a somewhat different take on AI development than what you might be used to from OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman.
I predict significant improvement in AI-OT-IT connectivity this year as physical AI makes enterprises increasingly robotic and increases the urgency of bridging the OT-IT gap. Although Nvidia has offered cross-platform AI model deployment options for years, physical AI tools are new, and we don’t yet have practical experience using these workflows for non-Nvidia deployment platforms. I encourage Nvidia to tackle this issue head-on and build heterogeneous deployment targets into the physical AI toolchain from the start. Robust cross-platform support removes toolchain adoption barriers by enabling customers to use Nvidia’s tools across a broad spectrum of deployment hardware. In today’s column, I explore the use of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) for those who need some upbeat insights about starting conversations.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time people have found ways to abuse Generative AI like ChatGPT. However, it does help that researchers like Flesch are outlining easy ways for OpenAI and others to solve these problems before they get too out of hand. Considering OpenAI’s work on ChatGPT Operators, it’s fully possible the company is already working on a fix for this ChatGPT security flaw. Researcher Benjamin Flesch outlined this new ChatGPT security flaw in a GitHub post. The flaw is in how the ChatGPT API handles HTTP POST requests to a specific endpoint. Because there is no limit to how many links the user can provide through the “URLs” parameter, bad actors can add the same URL as many times as they want, thus allowing the API to effectively DDoS a website or platform.
The 2025 Chatbot Chess Championship opened with a clash between Stockfish, the disciplined chess prodigy, and Snapchat AI, the generative, stock AI platform that the Snapchat social network uses. Addressing the breakneck speeds in the AI industry, Amodei also said he expects AI to surpass human intelligence by 2027. Amodei also addressed the near future, saying that he expects these AI agents to become assistants with increasingly better capabilities. These AIs will be able to perform better and longer tasks on computers while humans focus on other things.
The use of icebreakers is a common social mechanism that can be used with people that you’ve newly met. A lousy icebreaker could land like a dud and forever leave a foul impression on the other person. The gist is that AI is becoming further data-trained on how to cope with the physical world, the real world in which we all live. Here’s my take on a reasonable schedule for adopting these technologies.
You see, since the days of being a baby and a toddler, you eventually figured out that dropping a rubber ball from shoulder height will fall to the ground and then bounce. You’ve seen it happen, maybe zillions of times during your lifetime. Well, let’s go ahead and ask ChatGPT a question involving the physical action of dropping a rubber ball and find out what the AI has to say. Sci-fi plot lines have often delved into this devilish riddle by having brains floating in vats and disconnected from an actual body.
Combining robotics (automation), operational technologies (often called OT) and IT systems into a companywide, multimodal, real-time data estate connects the AI world with the physical world. Hence, physical AI is the new North Star driving industrial automation and enterprise digital transformation. However, I am less optimistic about the economics and timelines for connecting OT data sources to physical models.
For a brief, glorious moment, it looked like the chaos bot might topple the titan. It made unnecessary queen moves, created meaningless geometric patterns with its pieces, and blundered around with the finesse of a toddler. Stockfish, unfazed, methodically tightened its grip on the position, even declining free pawns to maintain strategic dominance. The game began surprisingly well, with both bots following standard opening principles. Things spiraled into madness when Snapchat AI moved its knight to the center of the board, jumping from the other side and ignoring the rules that define how chess pieces are allowed to move.
The AI could at times be dispensing crummy advice and steering people in untoward directions. The issue though is that finding someone willing to spend the time to do so might be difficult. Furthermore, having to admit to that person that you are struggling with icebreakers might be a personal embarrassment.
Moor Insights & Strategy provides or has provided paid services to technology companies, like all tech industry research and analyst firms. These services include research, analysis, advising, consulting, benchmarking, acquisition matchmaking and video and speaking sponsorships. Of the companies mentioned in this article, Moor Insights & Strategy currently has (or has had) a paid business relationship with Accenture, AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm. These workloads are not practical on traditional CPUs, because all three require AI acceleration.
Not to be outdone, Grok teleported its queen illegally over other pieces and across the board, apparently trying to perform a castle (a defensive move involving the king and a rook). The two bots entered what can only be described as a staring contest between queens, neither seemed interested in capturing anything. As a ChatGPT Plus user, I’ve already trained myself to switch between the base model (GPT-4o) and o1, depending on what I need the AI to do. I suspect Anthropic is looking to offer similar complexity to Claude when dealing with certain tasks. You’ll want the “reasoning” model to handle tasks you think are more difficult than, say, an internet search.
The additional issue is that you might suddenly think of an icebreaker late at night and want to immediately test it out. Café Reveille in San Francisco used these resources to optimize its staffing based on foot-traffic patterns. Coffee Run, a Seattle café, increased its Instagram engagement by 23% using Jasper AI to create social posts. Mighty Squirrel Brewing Co. cut its product photography costs using Pebblely to create images for its seasonal releases.
ChatGPT Glossary: 49 AI Terms Everyone Should Know.
Posted: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 10:00:00 GMT [source]
It could be that thinking is not separable from our senses such as having ears, eyes, noses, taste, and touch. Without those bodily capabilities, it could be that a brain and mind would not ultimately formulate into a thinking capacity. A brain and mind might be an empty vessel without having had the experiences of sensory inputs from the likes of their body working in physical environments. Humans and animals must discover the rules and laws of operating in a physical world to act, survive, and thrive. Sure, a human can show another human how to jump in the air and do the splits, but it won’t especially sink in until the person being shown the demonstration attempts the physical act themselves. This analysis of an innovative AI breakthrough is part of my ongoing Forbes column coverage on the latest in AI including identifying and explaining various impactful AI complexities (see the link here).
Cosmos is a development platform for physical AI with that has a set of world foundation models trained on 20 million hours of video. The focus is on physical dynamics — teaching AI about the physical world so that virtual objects behave like real ones and obey the laws of physics. Nvidia says Cosmos will do for robotics and industrial AI what Llama 3 has done for enterprise applications. It’s not so far-fetched — physical AI models really do appear to be “actual size” when viewed in 3-D.
It is a puzzling question since we cannot undertake the enigma in any real sense. Before we dive into the AI considerations, I’d like to offer crucial insights regarding the physical world and how humans manage to operate within it. A problem with using a disagreeable icebreaker is that you are taking a big chance when using one.
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