[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43441: WordPress News and Events widget: WordPress.org/news posts only show one at a time

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#43441: WordPress News and Events widget: WordPress.org/news posts only show one at
a time
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 Reporter:  hlashbrooke     |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by iandunn):

 That happens because the list is actually a juxtaposition of two separate
 feeds. The first feed is w.org/news with a limit of `1`, and the second
 feed is planet.w.org with a limit of `3`.

 Some rough ideas:

 * Bump the w.org/news limit to `2`, for a total `5`. I don't love this,
 because it adds more visual clutter. Keeping the total limit at `4` would
 be best, IMO.
 * Bump w.org/news limit to `3`, but then merge both feeds and sort
 chronologically. I kinda like this, but I think important news like
 security releases would fall out of the feed to quickly.
 * Maybe merge the lists like above, but add some conditional logic, where
 w.org news in the `releases` and `security` categories stick permanently,
 and w.org posts in all other categories stick for ~10 days?

 Maybe there's a simpler solution, though?

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