Alternatives to Category Posts Widget
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
Snapshot
Rating: 4.5/5 (79 reviews)
Downloads: 1,794,872
Active installs: 40,000
Maintenance score: 74/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 2.8
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 5.3
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WP Categories Widget(27)•Updated 136d ago
Display the list of categories for any taxonomies type (WooCommerce Product Category, Blog Category, Project Category...etc) in sidebar
6,000 installs119,129 downloads56/100 • Maintained
5,000 installs89,838 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Flex Posts – Widget and Gutenberg Block(23)•Updated 208d ago
A widget to display posts with thumbnails in various layouts. Fits nicely in any widget area size.
3,000 installs57,596 downloads42/100 • Stale
Magical Posts Display – Elementor Advanced Posts widgets(10)•Updated 85d ago
Show your site posts, Pages and Custom Post Types with many different styles by Elementor Widgets.
3,000 installs215,039 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Widget Post Slider(6)•Updated 50d ago
Widget Post Slider to display posts image in a slider from category.
1,000 installs64,246 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Advanced Posts Widget(6)•Updated 3733d ago
A powerful and flexible recent posts widget for WordPress for displaying customized content lists. Supports all custom post types and taxonomies!
200 installs8,467 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Latest Posts Widget(2)•Updated 3850d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature
200 installs13,076 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
200 installs23,412 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Simple Category Posts(4)•Updated 4091d ago
A plugin to display posts in a widget with title, thumb, excerpt, date and author.
100 installs10,825 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
90 installs8,896 downloads40/100 • Stale
10 installs5,049 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs2,353 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Custom latest posts widget(1)•Updated 3121d ago
Improve your sidebar a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, post type
10 installs1,499 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Sup Post Widget(0)•Updated 4054d ago
Is a plugin where you can display the number of popular posts, latest and random post with thumbnail image on your sidebar or page/post using short co …
10 installs4,422 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Newest Posts Widget(0)•Updated 3013d ago
A widget that display the new posts of your site with Thumbnail, Excerpt, Date etc options.
10 installs1,363 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
WPCT Drag & Drop Recent Posts(1)•Updated 2379d ago
You can display image slides with title, image, author name, date, description, and read more linked to posts from the selected category.
0 installs1,247 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
TKC Posts Selected Widget(1)•Updated 2308d ago
This plugin allows you show list of selected posts via widget.
0 installs987 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
0 installs1,120 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Regular Posts Element For Elementor(0)•Updated 1408d ago
Regular Posts Element is a custom extension of Elementor
0 installs928 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned