Alternatives to Recent & Featured Posts Widget
Display recent posts or manually selected posts with thumbnail images. Show the excerpt directly on the page or as a dropdown.
Snapshot
Rating: 4.0/5 (1 reviews)
Downloads: 6,039
Active installs: 600
Maintenance score: 22/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.6
Tested up to: 4.4.34
Requires PHP: f
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Relevant – Related, Featured, Latest, and Popular Posts by BestWebSoft(13)•Updated 204d ago
Add related, featured, latest, and popular posts to your WordPress website. Connect your blog readers with a relevant content.
1,000 installs72,120 downloads42/100 • Stale
AK Featured Post Widget(5)•Updated 3454d ago
A widget that you can use to display your blog posts, custom post types, or woocommerce products!
500 installs40,439 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Featured Posts(3)•Updated 636d ago
WP Featured Posts is a plugin choose featured posts, sortable and sticky custom post type and compatible with WPML.
300 installs3,671 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Posts Grid(10)•Updated 5111d ago
A javascript based display of post titles and thumbnails in a grid layout.
100 installs26,429 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Posts Pro(5)•Updated 2464d ago
This plugin gives Administrator/Editor an easy option to mark posts, pages & custom posts as featured posts and provides a widget to list the rece …
100 installs4,004 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)(0)•Updated 5731d ago
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin provides an easy AJAX interface to feature posts, with thumbnails & other display options for featured posts.
100 installs31,221 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Post Exclude Category for Genesis(3)•Updated 1540d ago
A new featured posts widget for Genesis themes that allows you to exclude a category when selecting All Categories in the featured post widget.
70 installs3,575 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Tidyhive Featured Posts(0)•Updated 3217d ago
Set featured posts with single click, no page refresh from admin panel.
60 installs3,780 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
30 installs4,677 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advance Widget Pack(1)•Updated 505d ago
This plugin displays the featured posts, recent posts, recent comments, popular posts, author details and author list.
30 installs3,925 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Posts Slideshow(0)•Updated 5511d ago
Featured Posts Slideshow is a wonderfull Wordpress Javascript Slideshow. It displays as many Post's images as you want.
30 installs23,198 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Scrollarama(0)•Updated 5347d ago
Creates a loop of recent posts (up to 10) with images, within selected category, and scrolls through with jQuery effects
20 installs7,581 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Custom Posts Widget(0)•Updated 5292d ago
Widget that allows custom post types and taxonomies to be displayed. Works well with Custom Post Type UI and Taxonomy Images plugins.
20 installs4,609 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs7,726 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
ZK Advanced Feature Post(1)•Updated 5247d ago
AJAX feature post function for your wordpress. Especially you can get featured post for custom category only.
10 installs6,418 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Content Showcase(0)•Updated 5369d ago
Used to create a customizable rotating slideshow highlighting certain posts or pages. Uses jQuery, which comes with WordPress (no conflicts).
10 installs10,558 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Today(0)•Updated 5151d ago
Featured Today shows featured articles like it is shown on linkedin today.
10 installs2,908 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Featured News – Custom Posts Listing Elements(5)•Updated 59d ago
WP Featured News plugin allows you to display your posts anywhere of your web-pages with 10 powerful and creatively designed post blocks.
10 installs2,021 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Awesome Featured Post Widget(3)•Updated 3215d ago
sidebar, taxonomy, post meta, plugin, wordpress Requires at least: 4.4.2 Tested up to: 4.7.2 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http …
10 installs2,577 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Posts with Multiple Custom Groups (FPMCG)(1)•Updated 2030d ago
This plugin allows you to create unlimited custom groups of featured posts.
10 installs6,022 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned