Alternatives to Recent Posts Widget Extended
Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.
Snapshot
Rating: 4.7/5 (160 reviews)
Downloads: 1,715,493
Active installs: 80,000
Maintenance score: 29/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.8
Tested up to: 6.1.8
Requires PHP: 7.2
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Advanced Random Posts Widget(39)•Updated 1152d ago
Provides flexible and advanced random posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, and much more!
10,000 installs216,954 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Smart Recent Posts Widget(30)•Updated 794d ago
Provides advanced recent posts widget,you can display it with thumbnails, excerpt, date, author, comment count and more.
9,000 installs132,871 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Post for Widget(3)•Updated 1292d ago
This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your sidebar. You can exclude certain posts by ID.
2,000 installs18,469 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Posts and Pages Widget(4)•Updated 167d ago
The main advantage of this widget is random movement of random links and every time they are changing.
1,000 installs27,826 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Random(4)•Updated 709d ago
Random, a great plugin designed to insert random contents, posts and other types, into your website. Enjoy its shortcodes!
300 installs8,129 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
300 installs71,800 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Posts Widget(0)•Updated 4871d ago
This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your widgetized sidebar. It supports multiple instances with WordPress 2.
300 installs65,196 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Random Posts(0)•Updated 3228d ago
Display random posts from selected categories or current category or all posts with thumbnail images (optional).
300 installs53,025 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
ERRP: Enhanced Related Random Posts(1)•Updated 399d ago
Boost user engagement and SEO with intelligent related and random post suggestions. Simple, clean, and performance-optimized.
70 installs1,535 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
30 installs5,996 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Related Posts(0)•Updated 5635d ago
A simple sidebar widget to include a custom number of posts from the same category as the current post.
30 installs6,350 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs5,049 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Popular Comment Tag Widget(0)•Updated 3006d ago
Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.
10 installs1,428 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Posts Widget Configurable(7)•Updated 4884d ago
Random Posts Widget provides you with a widget that displays random posts. You can set the number of random posts to be displayed.
10 installs6,366 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Post Inserter(1)•Updated 453d ago
Easily insert random post suggestions into your blog content. Great for bloggers who want to increase post engagement with flexible placement options.
10 installs456 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
AJAX Random Posts(0)•Updated 4930d ago
Displays a list of random posts using AJAX. Works with cache plugins, and highly customizable.
10 installs14,025 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Single Random Post With Text(0)•Updated 6067d ago
This plugin adds a new cover for the old content of your blog.
10 installs4,646 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs1,976 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Logicrays Recent Post Widget(0)•Updated 127d ago
Displays recent posts in the sidebar as a vertical slider or a simple list, with optional thumbnails.
0 installs1,387 downloads50/100 • Maintained
Mini Quilt(0)•Updated 4102d ago
For drawing attention to your posts in the sidebar. It uses a colorful way of presenting posts (what we call quilts) as sidebar elements.
0 installs3,287 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned