Alternatives to Custom Recent Posts Widget
A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
Snapshot
Rating: 4.9/5 (9 reviews)
Downloads: 51,245
Active installs: 1,000
Maintenance score: 22/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.1
Tested up to: 3.5.2
Requires PHP: f
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Content Views – Post Grid & Filter, Recent Posts, Category Posts … (Shortcode, Gutenberg Blocks, and Widgets for Elementor)(331)•Updated 29d ago
Easy to show posts, pages, custom posts in customizable grid, list, slider, accordion... Available as Widgets (for Elementor), Shortcode, and Blocks.
100,000 installs4,966,709 downloads79/100 • Actively maintained
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails(211)•Updated 30d ago
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
100,000 installs3,584,779 downloads77/100 • Actively maintained
Recent Posts Widget Extended(160)•Updated 884d ago
Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.
80,000 installs1,715,493 downloads29/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites – PostX(239)•Updated 36d ago
A highly customizable plugin to create news, magazines, and any kind of blog site with post grid, post filter, post slider, and post blocks.
40,000 installs2,492,591 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
Category Posts Widget(79)•Updated 158d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
40,000 installs1,779,239 downloads66/100 • Maintained
VK Link Target Controller(2)•Updated 131d ago
Redirect your visitors to another page than the post content when they click on the post title.
30,000 installs228,000 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Smart Post Show – Post Grid, Post Carousel & Slider, and List Category Posts(202)•Updated 36d ago
Display posts, pages, and taxonomies in beautiful carousel, slider, and grid layouts with advanced filtering. Customizable, Developer-friendly.
20,000 installs689,385 downloads58/100 • Actively maintained
WP Latest Posts(86)•Updated 156d ago
Load your content from posts, page, tags or custom post type and display it anywhere in WordPress including in Gutenberg editor
10,000 installs575,545 downloads46/100 • Maintained
Ultimate Posts Widget(55)•Updated 532d ago
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.
10,000 installs487,148 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget – A Responsive Post Slider(31)•Updated 28d ago
Post Slider and Post Carousel display WordPress post in slider and carousel layouts with shortcode and Latest/Recent vertical post scrolling widget.
10,000 installs286,194 downloads64/100 • Actively maintained
Smart Recent Posts Widget(30)•Updated 521d ago
Provides advanced recent posts widget,you can display it with thumbnails, excerpt, date, author, comment count and more.
10,000 installs130,954 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Recent Posts(30)•Updated 3786d ago
Plugin that shows the latest posts with thumbnails in the widget and in other parts of the your blog or theme with shortcodes.
6,000 installs77,992 downloads16/100 • Possibly abandoned
ThemeZee Widget Bundle(4)•Updated 1135d ago
A collection of useful widgets, neatly bundled into a single plugin.
6,000 installs141,041 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Custom Layouts – Post + Product grids made easy(25)•Updated 257d ago
Build a list or grid layout of any post type (posts, products, pages + more).
4,000 installs63,859 downloads34/100 • Stale
Recent Posts by Category Widget(12)•Updated 2955d ago
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
4,000 installs32,899 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
CPO Widgets(2)•Updated 1882d ago
Add essential functionality to your WordPress sidebars with a set of useful widgets.
3,000 installs70,121 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
PE Recent Posts(11)•Updated 1581d ago
The simple plugin that allows you to display image slides with title, description and read more linked to posts from selected category.
2,000 installs61,083 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts by Tags(1)•Updated 4751d ago
This plugin creates a widget with a list of recent posts belonging to selected tags
40 installs3,936 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs2,374 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Multisite Taxonomy Widget(2)•Updated 446d ago
List the latest posts of a specific taxonomy from your blog-network.
10 installs3,832 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned