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 1017d 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 658d 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
Random Post for Widget(3)•Updated 1156d 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 installs18,094 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Posts and Pages Widget(4)•Updated 32d ago
The main advantage of this widget is random movement of random links and every time they are changing.
1,000 installs26,829 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
400 installs71,657 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random(4)•Updated 574d ago
Random, a great plugin designed to insert random contents, posts and other types, into your website. Enjoy its shortcodes!
300 installs7,984 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Posts Widget(0)•Updated 4736d 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 installs65,075 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Random Posts(0)•Updated 3092d ago
Display random posts from selected categories or current category or all posts with thumbnail images (optional).
300 installs52,726 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
ERRP: Enhanced Related Random Posts(1)•Updated 263d ago
Boost user engagement and SEO with intelligent related and random post suggestions. Simple, clean, and performance-optimized.
80 installs1,414 downloads40/100 • Stale
Random Related Posts(0)•Updated 5499d ago
A simple sidebar widget to include a custom number of posts from the same category as the current post.
40 installs6,119 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
30 installs5,875 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs4,839 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Popular Comment Tag Widget(0)•Updated 2871d ago
Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.
10 installs1,208 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Posts Widget Configurable(7)•Updated 4749d 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 installs6,145 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Post Inserter(1)•Updated 318d ago
Easily insert random post suggestions into your blog content. Great for bloggers who want to increase post engagement with flexible placement options.
10 installs378 downloads40/100 • Stale
AJAX Random Posts(0)•Updated 4795d 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 5932d ago
This plugin adds a new cover for the old content of your blog.
10 installs4,646 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs1,899 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Logicrays Recent Post Widget(0)•Updated 2967d ago
Recent Post Widget With Two Option Slider and List..
0 installs1,084 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Mini Quilt(0)•Updated 3966d 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 installs3,231 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned