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: 51,754
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)(333)•Updated 44d ago
Easy to show posts, pages, custom posts in customizable grid, list, slider, accordion... Available as Widgets (for Elementor), Shortcode, and Blocks.
100,000 installs5,170,909 downloads60/100 • Actively maintained
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails(212)•Updated 77d ago
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
100,000 installs3,611,631 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
Recent Posts Widget Extended(160)•Updated 1067d 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(256)•Updated 14d ago
Design professional blogs with advanced Gutenberg blocks, premade templates, dynamic post grids, and smart filters.
40,000 installs2,909,205 downloads89/100 • Actively maintained
Category Posts Widget(79)•Updated 17d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
40,000 installs1,794,872 downloads74/100 • Actively maintained
VK Link Target Controller(2)•Updated 70d ago
Redirect your visitors to another page than the post content when they click on the post title.
30,000 installs302,572 downloads71/100 • Actively maintained
Smart Post – Post Grid, Post Carousel, Post Slider Gutenberg Blocks for Blog & News(207)•Updated 22d ago
Display posts in Grid, Carousel, Slider, Timeline, List & Live Filter layouts with Gutenberg Blocks & Ready Patterns - Elementor, Divi, & Shortcodes.
20,000 installs783,653 downloads87/100 • Actively maintained
WP Latest Posts(89)•Updated 339d ago
Load your content from posts, page, tags or custom post type and display it anywhere in WordPress including in Gutenberg editor
10,000 installs581,710 downloads44/100 • Stale
Ultimate Posts Widget(55)•Updated 715d ago
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.
10,000 installs493,910 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
Social LikeBox & Feed(47)•Updated 19d ago
Display your FaceBook Feed and Like box on your website with this outstanding plugin. It is completely customizable, responsive and the code is search …
10,000 installs1,109,427 downloads74/100 • Actively maintained
Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget – A Responsive Post Slider(31)•Updated 19d 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 installs321,630 downloads77/100 • Actively maintained
Smart Recent Posts Widget(30)•Updated 704d ago
Provides advanced recent posts widget,you can display it with thumbnails, excerpt, date, author, comment count and more.
9,000 installs132,871 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Recent Posts(30)•Updated 3969d 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 194d ago
A collection of useful widgets, neatly bundled into a single plugin.
5,000 installs150,853 downloads40/100 • Stale
Custom Layouts – Post + Product grids made easy(25)•Updated 184d ago
Build a list or grid layout of any post type (posts, products, pages + more).
4,000 installs71,734 downloads34/100 • Stale
Recent Posts by Category Widget(12)•Updated 3137d ago
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
4,000 installs33,916 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
CPO Widgets(2)•Updated 2065d ago
Add essential functionality to your WordPress sidebars with a set of useful widgets.
3,000 installs70,121 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts by Tags(1)•Updated 4934d ago
This plugin creates a widget with a list of recent posts belonging to selected tags
30 installs4,157 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs2,539 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Multisite Taxonomy Widget(2)•Updated 204d ago
List the latest posts of a specific taxonomy from your blog-network.
10 installs4,117 downloads40/100 • Stale