Sitewide Recent Images

This plugin will add a widget that displays thumbnails of the most recently posted images from all the blogs in a network. It’s highly optimized to be scalable for large networks, so it should need only about 100 database queries even for a network of thousands of sites. And to keep any performance drain as minimal as possible, the plugin utilizes caching with an adjustable update interval.

• Note that images are taken only from blogs and posts which don’t have privacy options enabled (compatible with More Privacy Options) and the image must be attached to a post. So essentially, only public images are shown.

The widget formatting is completely customizable via a template and/or CSS (if available). The template uses patterns that will plug in values for the following:

• Image Title
• Image Caption
• Image Description
• Image Thumbnail URL
• Full Image URL
• Image Publish Date
• Parent Post Title
• Parent Post URL
• Blog URL