its all in the codex: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/

Fantastic, thank you! Is there any code I can add that would display a truncated bit of each post listed?

these tags are part of that plugin:

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-recent-posts/

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-latest-posts/

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-newest-topics/

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-todays-posts/

and a widget too:

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/recent-posts-widget/

I now see that and am going with “sp_RecentPostsTag”. It displays the forum post, title, author, but I’m wondering if I can somehow also access the content within each post that’s listed? It doesn’t seem to be a parameter, but do you know the start of some code I could add in that would do that?

the code excerpt is in the tooltip… what you see when you hover over the link to the topic/post..

I dont think any of them actually force display the topic/post content – no one has asked for that frankly…

but its possible, using the hooks and api, to grab the post content too… would take a bit of coding and familiarity with wp hooks…  are you able to do so?  we can help guide you… 

I think I could do it with a bit of guidance.

actually, I think I am wrong…  not going to be easy to do with hooks… looks like we dont have a hook in place for each entry in the list, just on the whole list…  could be done, but would be quite messy and complex… I will open a ticket for future consideration about each item, but wont help now…

My suggestion would be to make a copy of the plugin and make it your own…  then we can edit it to output a snippet…  so get it set up for that and we can help…