Gaurav Tiwari

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<li>Lightweight – Just 5kB in size.</li>
<li>Tested on WordPress 3.5+ // WordPress 4.1 recommended.</li>
<li>Customize the way you want.</li>
<li>Link to one of your blog pages.</li>
<li>Free support and future updates at <a href="http://gauravtiwari.org/" title="Gaurav Tiwari" rel="nofollow ugc">personal blog</a></li>
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Beautiful Recent Posts Widget

Beautiful Recent Posts Widget (BRPW) is a clean minimal sidebar widget to showcase your recent articles in a clean & beautiful way.

Grant Mangham

Express posts provides a widget to display either a subset of posts, the children of a page or its siblings.
The widget provides three modes.
Subset will list a given number of posts from your selected categories. Date, date format, and excerpt are all optional.
Children and siblings modes will list the immediate children or siblings of a page, respectively. You can include a placeholder in the widget title as a substitute for the parent page title. You can also choose to show or hide the widget on specific generations of pages, allowing extra flexibility on shared sidebars.
In common with all of my plugins, Express Posts strives to follow best practice in WordPress coding. If you spy a bug or see room for improvement, please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/express-posts" rel="ugc">let me know</a>.

Express Posts

Express posts provides a widget to display either a subset of posts, the children of a page or its siblings.

Beautiful Recent Posts Widget vs Express Posts