E.g. for this site, I want to have a section that shows recent videos, so I can use your recent posts shortcode to display the most recent posts in the videos category.

Thanks so much for your help!

When I added the recent posts shortcode with thumbnails, it still displays them as an ordered vertical list. But I want to create the typical boxes with thumbnails that display left to right.

So I added columns and added the recent posts within that, but if I put them in the first column they’d all just be in column one. So I reduced the loop to one, and that will show one post in each column. This would work, but of course it shows the same post over and over.

Is there a way to specify that I want the Recent Posts to display the most recent post -1 or -2 (that is, the second-most recent post, third most recent)? That way the columns solution would work perfectly!

Otherwise, how should I get the Recent Posts to display as a horizontal list, instead of a vertical list? That is, magazine style. The Vertical list doesn’t really work with the thumbnails turned on.

I would like for the drop down menu (the plus sign at the bottom of the page) to always be open and show my “widgets”. Is there a simple way to do this?

Is there anyway to improve my interface through an admin theme or some specfic “theme/templating” for the admin pages that CCTM generates?