Alternatives to Enhanced Recent Posts
Enhance the built-in "Recent Posts" widget.
Snapshot
Rating: 5.0/5 (3 reviews)
Downloads: 31,201
Active installs: 400
Maintenance score: 22/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 2.5
Tested up to: 3.5.2
Requires PHP: f
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Smart Post Show – Post Grid, Post Carousel & Slider, and List Category Posts(207)•Updated 54d ago
Display posts, pages, and taxonomies in beautiful carousel, slider, and grid layouts with advanced filtering. Customizable, Developer-friendly.
20,000 installs727,847 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
5,000 installs87,720 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
news ticker benaceur(25)•Updated 161d ago
This plugin allow you to display the latest posts or latest comments in a bar with twenty seven beautiful animations and effects...
1,000 installs59,772 downloads56/100 • Maintained
Orange Themes Custom Widgets(0)•Updated 3358d ago
Orange Themes custom widgets is a set of widgets which is made for business, porftolio and one page WordPress themes from Orange-Themes.com
1,000 installs19,822 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
1,000 installs5,031 downloads10/100 • Possibly abandoned
Relevant – Related, Featured, Latest, and Popular Posts by BestWebSoft(13)•Updated 342d ago
Add related, featured, latest, and popular posts to your WordPress website. Connect your blog readers with a relevant content.
900 installs72,834 downloads42/100 • Stale
Latest Custom Post Type Updates(5)•Updated 4962d ago
Simple widgetized display of the latest posts in your custom post type. Also allows for easy filtered display of regular posts in a widget.
400 installs15,280 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget(6)•Updated 2986d ago
Display list of recent posts and latest posts or random posts using the [recentposts-sc] shortcode in any page or in sidebar widgets.
300 installs12,802 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
GS Posts Grid – Recent Posts, Category Posts, Post Filter, Slider & List(5)•Updated 68d ago
GS Posts Grid – A flexible plugin to display posts in Grid, Masonry, Slider, Popup, List, Card, Table, Filter & Justified Gallery views.
100 installs12,700 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Simple Category Posts(4)•Updated 4046d ago
A plugin to display posts in a widget with title, thumb, excerpt, date and author.
100 installs10,581 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
PostExtra – News and Magazine Blog Post Blocks for Gutenberg & FSE(0)•Updated 153d ago
Magazine‑style post grids, lists, and carousels for Gutenberg and FSE – design high‑engagement blog and news layouts without coding.
100 installs5,104 downloads50/100 • Maintained
Newstastic Post Slider(8)•Updated 4213d ago
A quick way to display your recent posts on any page with a slider for paging.
60 installs17,309 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Blog Summary(0)•Updated 4917d ago
Blog Summary produces a semantic, hAtom-enabled list of the latest blog post excerpts with the shortcode [blog-summary].
60 installs10,607 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post Slider(0)•Updated 3497d ago
Post slider is a responsive carousel to slide recent posts with category selection and no.of posts. You can use the post slider in unlimited websites …
20 installs4,177 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs2,047 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
VA Term Latest Posts Widget(0)•Updated 4096d ago
This plugin adds a widget to display the new post list belonging to the specified term.
10 installs1,422 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Top Posts for Google Analytics by Asentechllc(0)•Updated 2447d ago
Display most read articles from fetching google analytics API
10 installs1,097 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
0 installs720 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts Slide In and Call to Action(0)•Updated 1801d ago
A WordPress plugin that adds a Slide In area containing recent posts and a Call to Action.
0 installs1,227 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
0 installs564 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned