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: 2,376
Active installs: 10
Maintenance score: 20/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.0
Tested up to: 4.9.29
Requires PHP: f
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Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails(212)•Updated 191d ago
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
100,000 installs3,611,631 downloads57/100 • Stale
Content Views – Post Grid & Filter, Recent Posts, Category Posts … (Shortcode, Gutenberg Blocks, and Widgets for Elementor)(333)•Updated 158d ago
Easy to show posts, pages, custom posts in customizable grid, list, slider, accordion... Available as Widgets (for Elementor), Shortcode, and Blocks.
100,000 installs5,170,909 downloads51/100 • Maintained
Recent Posts Widget Extended(160)•Updated 1181d 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(256)•Updated 128d ago
Design professional blogs with advanced Gutenberg blocks, premade templates, dynamic post grids, and smart filters.
40,000 installs2,909,205 downloads71/100 • Maintained
Category Posts Widget(79)•Updated 131d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
40,000 installs1,794,872 downloads56/100 • Maintained
VK Link Target Controller(2)•Updated 184d ago
Redirect your visitors to another page than the post content when they click on the post title.
30,000 installs302,572 downloads50/100 • Stale
Smart Recent Posts Widget(30)•Updated 818d 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
PE Recent Posts(11)•Updated 1878d 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 installs61,865 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Better Recent Posts Widget (with thumbnails)(3)•Updated 1183d 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 3854d ago
Gives adaptable and highly organized recent posts. Show it through widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, post date.
100 installs8,583 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Smart Recent Post(2)•Updated 2545d ago
Smart recent posts shows the recent posts from your wordpress blog
50 installs8,205 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Related Post And Page(2)•Updated 133d ago
Show Recent Related Posts Pages Using Widget & Shortcode
20 installs15,883 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Visual Recent Posts(0)•Updated 6490d 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 4323d 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 4518d ago
ListPosts Shortcode is a shortcode that adds a highly customized list of blog posts anywhere on their site.
10 installs2,516 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts by Category (RCP)(1)•Updated 268d ago
Display recent posts from any category as a modern, stylish widget on any page on your website.
10 installs1,541 downloads40/100 • Stale
Recent Popular Comment Tag Widget(0)•Updated 3030d 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
Logicrays Recent Post Widget(0)•Updated 151d ago
Displays recent posts in the sidebar as a vertical slider or a simple list, with optional thumbnails.
0 installs1,387 downloads50/100 • Maintained
WAD Recent Posts(0)•Updated 2094d ago
Simple and clean widget for showing recent posts list. It also has shortcode feature.
0 installs993 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts Easy(0)•Updated 787d ago
A simple shortcode for displaying recent posts with thumbnails and meta descriptions.
0 installs991 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned