Exclude current post from Recent Posts widget

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Checking demo site - ​http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/

If you visit any recent post like this one - ​http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/road-trips/

The recent post widget on right sidebar include this post in recent 5 post. We could just exclude present post from the loop using code like this

<?php
				global $post;
				$args=array(
					"numberposts"=>5,
					"orderby"=>"post_date",
					"post__not_in"=>array($post->ID)
				);
				
				$posts = get_posts($args);
	
				foreach($posts as $post) {
					setup_postdata($post);
?>

Most theme has it. If you are already in a post which is among recent 5, no point of showing it in the loop.

Excludes current post

21485.diff​ Adds a post__not_in value to the WP_Query. Not sure if using get_the_ID() in this instance is cheating :)

+ Readability

If I had to guess, one reason why not to do this would be it would make caching harder.