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: 1,779,239
Active installs: 40,000
Maintenance score: 54/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 2.8
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 5.3
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WP Categories Widget(26)•Updated 216d ago
Display the list of categories for any taxonomies type (WooCommerce Product Category, Blog Category, Project Category...etc) in sidebar
7,000 installs108,542 downloads44/100 • Stale
6,000 installs84,694 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Flex Posts – Widget and Gutenberg Block(23)•Updated 72d ago
A widget to display posts with thumbnails in various layouts. Fits nicely in any widget area size.
3,000 installs53,769 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Magical Posts Display – Elementor Advanced Posts widgets(9)•Updated 75d ago
Show your site posts, Pages and Custom Post Types with many different styles by Elementor Widgets.
3,000 installs204,196 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Widget Post Slider(6)•Updated 676d ago
Widget Post Slider to display posts image in a slider from category.
2,000 installs61,880 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Posts Widget(6)•Updated 3597d ago
A powerful and flexible recent posts widget for WordPress for displaying customized content lists. Supports all custom post types and taxonomies!
300 installs8,060 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Latest Posts Widget(2)•Updated 3714d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature
300 installs12,779 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
300 installs23,102 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Simple Category Posts(4)•Updated 3954d ago
A plugin to display posts in a widget with title, thumb, excerpt, date and author.
100 installs10,405 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
100 installs8,255 downloads52/100 • Maintained
10 installs4,464 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs1,966 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Custom latest posts widget(1)•Updated 2985d ago
Improve your sidebar a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, post type
10 installs1,158 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Sup Post Widget(0)•Updated 3918d 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 installs3,833 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Newest Posts Widget(0)•Updated 2877d ago
A widget that display the new posts of your site with Thumbnail, Excerpt, Date etc options.
10 installs1,031 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
WPCT Drag & Drop Recent Posts(1)•Updated 2243d ago
You can display image slides with title, image, author name, date, description, and read more linked to posts from the selected category.
0 installs1,071 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
TKC Posts Selected Widget(1)•Updated 2171d ago
This plugin allows you show list of selected posts via widget.
0 installs789 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
0 installs834 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Regular Posts Element For Elementor(0)•Updated 1272d ago
Regular Posts Element is a custom extension of Elementor
0 installs597 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned