Add post thumbnail to Recent post widgets

[dingo_d]

I've seen a lot of people including their own widgets that extend the current capability of the Recent posts widget.

While we don't need to add huge amount of options to it, I find it odd that there is no show post thumbnail option in the widget. The date exists, and the image would be a good addition to it.

[dingo_bastard]

Add post thumbnail to Recent posts widget

[welcher]

The patch doesn't apply cleanly since [41890].

[dingo_bastard]

I'll check how the new widget looks like and add an update. Thanks for the heads up.

[JoshuaWold]

We discussed this issue in our #design triage chat today.

1. Can we see a screenshot of what this looks like now that there’s a patch?
2. Ideally this would match Gutenberg’s block, or would be replaced by the Gutenberg block (however, any changes are unlikely before Gutenberg is released).

[dingo_bastard]

Patch for the latest version

[dingo_bastard]

Hi!

I've updated the patch with the latest version. I've also included what it looks like in the admin, and in the front.

Not sure how the widgets are supposed to look with Gutenberg so not sure how to cover this...

[JoshuaWold]

Thank you so much! That’s really helpful.

Gutenberg may have thumbnails, but I’m not seeing it on my end, I just tested in my blog.

Is styling the thumbnails something that should be handled by the theme, or should we be prescriptive in that? If so we’d probably want to touch up how the thumbnail looks from a spacing and alignment perspective.

[dingo_bastard]

I'm fine in adding some css additions to style it (even html ones), but I'd like some design guidelines first. Also themes should be able to change the styling if they want of course :)

[audrasjb]

Hi,

I like the idea but I think it would be necessary to handle minimal CSS styling in bundled themes as well.

Pinging @laurelfulford : do you prefer to handle Bundled Themes CSS styling in this ticket or should we create one ticket per Bundled Theme?

[karmatosed]

I am just swapping the keyword to 'needs design feedback', which is being used now for design feedback.

[melchoyce]

In the long term, we're going to be moving away from widgets and towards blocks.

There's an issue and some open PRs around adding featured image support to the Latest Posts block (​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/1594) — let's focus on getting those in. Going to close as "wontfix," but folks are free to reopen if they want to push this forward regardless and are willing to own the issue.