Mark New Posts

Highlight unread posts on your blog.

Key features:

• Works right out of the box
• Uses cookies, no authorization required
• 4 different types of markers for highlighting posts (a “new” text label, an orange circle, etc.)
• Customizable background color for unread post titles

There’s a setting to determine when a post should be considered read. You can pick one of the following:

• after it was opened
• after it was displayed in the post list
• after opening any page of the blog

Functions available for theme developers:

• mnp_is_new_post($post) – check if a post is unread
• mnp_new_posts_count($query) – get unread posts count