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: 1,790,595
Active installs: 40,000
Maintenance score: 46/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 2.8
Tested up to: 6.9.4
Requires PHP: 5.3
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WP Categories Widget(27)•Updated 90d ago
Display the list of categories for any taxonomies type (WooCommerce Product Category, Blog Category, Project Category...etc) in sidebar
7,000 installs117,492 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
5,000 installs87,720 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Flex Posts – Widget and Gutenberg Block(23)•Updated 163d ago
A widget to display posts with thumbnails in various layouts. Fits nicely in any widget area size.
3,000 installs56,486 downloads54/100 • Maintained
Magical Posts Display – Elementor Advanced Posts widgets(10)•Updated 40d ago
Show your site posts, Pages and Custom Post Types with many different styles by Elementor Widgets.
3,000 installs212,599 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Widget Post Slider(6)•Updated 768d ago
Widget Post Slider to display posts image in a slider from category.
1,000 installs62,504 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Posts Widget(6)•Updated 3688d ago
A powerful and flexible recent posts widget for WordPress for displaying customized content lists. Supports all custom post types and taxonomies!
300 installs8,313 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Latest Posts Widget(2)•Updated 3805d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature
200 installs12,966 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
200 installs23,311 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Simple Category Posts(4)•Updated 4045d ago
A plugin to display posts in a widget with title, thumb, excerpt, date and author.
100 installs10,581 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
100 installs8,746 downloads40/100 • Stale
10 installs4,839 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs2,098 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Custom latest posts widget(1)•Updated 3076d ago
Improve your sidebar a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, post type
10 installs1,279 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Sup Post Widget(0)•Updated 4009d 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 installs4,208 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Newest Posts Widget(0)•Updated 2968d ago
A widget that display the new posts of your site with Thumbnail, Excerpt, Date etc options.
10 installs1,152 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
WPCT Drag & Drop Recent Posts(1)•Updated 2334d ago
You can display image slides with title, image, author name, date, description, and read more linked to posts from the selected category.
0 installs1,170 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
TKC Posts Selected Widget(1)•Updated 2263d ago
This plugin allows you show list of selected posts via widget.
0 installs844 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
0 installs933 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Regular Posts Element For Elementor(0)•Updated 1363d ago
Regular Posts Element is a custom extension of Elementor
0 installs707 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned