Recent Posts widget: provide optional post date display

[lancewillett]

As a small enhancement to the Recent Posts widget, add an option to display the post date next to each post. Similar to how the RSS Widget date can be added to the display.

If enabled (should be off by default) -- the widget's HTML output should include the post date after the post title. The date format should match the WP user-set date format.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Looks good to me.

Minor edit in line 576 (only switch to PHP to print the date) for consistency with line 574.

[DrewAPicture]

Sans mdash FF 14

[DrewAPicture]

Looks good in FF14, Safari 6, Chrome 21 => recent-posts-07-05.png​

[lancewillett]

Would love a core dev feedback and blessing to get this into 3.5, it's a nice improvement and Twenty Twelve can show it off.

[lancewillett]

Ready for a code review and commit, please.

[westi]

Replying to lancewillett:

Ready for a code review and commit, please.

Looks good to me and is a great enhancement to the widget.

[westi]

In [21935]:

Widgets: Add support for display the post date in the Recent Posts widget. Fixes #21064 props lancewillett and SergeyBiryukov.

[lancewillett]

Fixes closing label tag

[lancewillett]

Facepalm moment, I didn't close one of the label tags. This causes brokenness in IE browsers on the Widgets admin page; can't drag and drop widgets.

[nacin]

In [21978]:

Close label. props lancewillett, fixes #21064.