Goals
- Truncate the Recent Post's Length
- Add the post id (may be unsafe), ideally I would like to add another sequence (separate from the post id), but for now I'll just add the post id (no time for the former) because I want to have a numeric reference for each published post
- Add a Hyphen for formatting purposes
- Add [...] at the end for formatting purposes
Solution
- Go to:
- /wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-recent-posts.php
- On line 98 change:
$post_title = get_the_title( $recent_post->ID );
TO
$post_title = $recent_post->ID." - ".substr(get_the_title( $recent_post->ID ), 0, 20)." [...]";