=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: mcmasterp
Donate link: http://hackhut.com/2011/02/09/list-recent-sites-wordpress-plugin/
Tags: multisite, list, sites, mu, blogs, recent
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.0.5
Stable tag: 1.0

Creates a list of all sites on a multisite network sorted by the most recently updated.

== Description ==

This plugin creates a list of all sites on a multisite network sorted by the most recently updated. It lists blogname, description, admin, admin avatar, and recent posts. It should automatically excludes blog ID 1 (main blog), and post ID 1 (first "Hello World" posts of new blogs). I don't want any donations for this plugin but if you put a followable link ANYWHERE on your site to http://hackhut.com I would considered that payment. It is completely based on the hard work of Ron Rennick and a modified version of Sitewide Recent Posts for WordPress MU Andrea R. uses on her personal site. They deserve ALL credit for this, I only fixed some things and changed it a little here and there. You can get amazing work done by them at http://ronandandrea.com/ 

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== Installation ==

Upload the file list-recent-sites.php into your wp-content/mu-plugins folder. if it doesn’t exist, create that folder.

Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

create a new page template by making a copy of your page.php file in your theme directory. rename it something unique liksites.php or whatever you want. edit the ne template file and at the very top add:

    <?php
    /*
    Template Name:homelist
    */
    ?>

Then insert:

    <?php ra_recent_blog_posts(3,255,  ‘<div>’, ‘</div>’); ?>

where ever you want the list to show. I suggest replacing the get_content call with it if you only want the list on the page. The first number in the function is how many recent  posts you want to show per blog, in the example it’s set to 3.

You can change several settings from inside the plugin code including:

    * ra_num_posts on line 38 – set to how many posts total for all sites to add to the plugin’s DB tables.
    * date_format – on line 51 you can set your date format
    * grav_size – on line 52 you can set avatar size
    * You can opt to not show any of the content by commenting out ( place // in front of) any of the objects lines 55-59


== Changelog ==

= 1.0 =
* A change since the previous version.
* Another change.

= 0.5 =
* List versions from most recent at top to oldest at bottom.

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.0 =
- added admin name to output
- fixed sorting, should sort by post recently updated blog correctly now
- cut out old non-used code from original plugin
- fixed avatar retrieval to work with any avatar not just gravatar