Alternatives to Simple Recent Posts Widget
Simple way to displaying your recent posts sidebar, including thumbnails, category, and number options.
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Rating: 0.0/5 (0 reviews)
Downloads: 2,211
Active installs: 10
Maintenance score: 20/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.0
Tested up to: 4.9.28
Requires PHP: f
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Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails(211)•Updated 30d ago
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
100,000 installs3,584,779 downloads77/100 • Actively maintained
Content Views – Post Grid & Filter, Recent Posts, Category Posts … (Shortcode, Gutenberg Blocks, and Widgets for Elementor)(331)•Updated 30d ago
Easy to show posts, pages, custom posts in customizable grid, list, slider, accordion... Available as Widgets (for Elementor), Shortcode, and Blocks.
100,000 installs4,966,709 downloads79/100 • Actively maintained
Recent Posts Widget Extended(160)•Updated 885d 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(239)•Updated 37d ago
A highly customizable plugin to create news, magazines, and any kind of blog site with post grid, post filter, post slider, and post blocks.
40,000 installs2,492,591 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
Category Posts Widget(79)•Updated 158d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
40,000 installs1,779,239 downloads66/100 • Maintained
VK Link Target Controller(2)•Updated 131d ago
Redirect your visitors to another page than the post content when they click on the post title.
30,000 installs228,000 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Smart Post Show – Post Grid, Post Carousel & Slider, and List Category Posts(202)•Updated 37d ago
Display posts, pages, and taxonomies in beautiful carousel, slider, and grid layouts with advanced filtering. Customizable, Developer-friendly.
20,000 installs689,385 downloads58/100 • Actively maintained
Smart Recent Posts Widget(30)•Updated 521d ago
Provides advanced recent posts widget,you can display it with thumbnails, excerpt, date, author, comment count and more.
10,000 installs130,954 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
PE Recent Posts(11)•Updated 1581d ago
The simple plugin that allows you to display image slides with title, description and read more linked to posts from selected category.
2,000 installs61,083 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Better Recent Posts Widget (with thumbnails)(3)•Updated 887d ago
If you’ve ever wanted more control (a lot more control) over displaying your recent posts, this is the widget for you. Plus thumbnails.
700 installs26,291 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Post Widget Thumbnail(1)•Updated 3558d ago
Gives adaptable and highly organized recent posts. Show it through widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, post date.
100 installs8,307 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Smart Recent Post(2)•Updated 2248d ago
Smart recent posts shows the recent posts from your wordpress blog
60 installs7,809 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Visual Recent Posts(0)•Updated 6193d ago
Displays your recent posts with auto-generated thumbnails and excerpts; also includes a featured post and popup box option.
20 installs16,114 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent post list(3)•Updated 4027d ago
The plugin is used to create posts and post type columns as well simply to control they’re external design.
10 installs25,399 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
ListPosts Shortcode(1)•Updated 4222d ago
ListPosts Shortcode is a shortcode that adds a highly customized list of blog posts anywhere on their site.
10 installs2,197 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Popular Comment Tag Widget(0)•Updated 2733d ago
Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.
10 installs1,086 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts by Category (RCP)(1)•Updated 281d ago
Display recent posts from any category as a modern, stylish widget on any page on your website.
0 installs718 downloads40/100 • Stale
Logicrays Recent Post Widget(0)•Updated 2830d ago
Recent Post Widget With Two Option Slider and List..
0 installs974 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
WAD Recent Posts(0)•Updated 1798d ago
Simple and clean widget for showing recent posts list. It also has shortcode feature.
0 installs828 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts Easy(0)•Updated 491d ago
A simple shortcode for displaying recent posts with thumbnails and meta descriptions.
0 installs639 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned