Nick Adams

Revault Media

This easy to use WordPress plugin is designed to add a new feature for theme developers. Used on many of my own websites as well as those of my clients, the plugin allows me to quickly add a collection of recent posts to any theme element.
The plugin can easily be used by website owners as a WordPress Widget, adding lists of posts to the Sidebar of a WordPress website.
<h4>About the plugin</h4>
More advanced users can also call the functionality of the plugin from a WordPress shortcode by adding the code <code>[thisismyurl_easy_recent_posts]</code> to any Post or Page within WordPress.
Finally, theme authors may also take advantage of the plugin by calling the functionality directly from theme files with the code <code>thisismyurl_easy_recent_posts();</code>.
This plugin was authored by by Christopher Ross
Questions about this plugin can be posted to the WordPress.org forums at https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-recent-posts/, or to the Issues tab at the GitHub https://github.com/thisismyurl/easy-recent-posts repository for the plugin.
This plugin is currently available in:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates</h3>
Updates to this plugin will be posted to the GitHub repository for testing prior to updates on WordPress.org, if you’d like to help make this plugin better please consider taking part in regular code reviews of releases at the GitHub repository.
<h3>Donations</h3>
Open source software such as this free WordPress plugin only work through the hard work of community members, volunteering their time or resources to make the software freely available. If you would like to show your support for this software, please consider donating towards the development effort. http://thisismyurl.com/downloads/
If you can’t contribute to the plugin in any other way, please consider translating it to your local language.

Easy Recent Posts

An easy to use WordPress function to add recent posts to any theme.

Hector Cabrera

Let’s face it: WordPress’ default Recent Posts widget does the job as promised but it’s not very flexible. Things like excluding certain entries from the list or displaying recent posts by category can’t be done with the stock Recent Posts widget. Therefore, let me introduce Recently.
Recently is a WordPress widget that displays your site’s most recent posts. And it doesn’t stop there:
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multiple Recently lists – That is, you can have several Recently lists on your blog – each with its own settings!</li>
<li>Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your recent posts! (see the <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/recently/wiki/3.-FAQ#how-does-recently-pick-my-posts-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ section</a> for more details.)</li>
<li>Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Recent Products? <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/recently/wiki/3.-FAQ#i-want-to-have-a-recent-list-of-my-custom-post-type-how-can-i-do-that" rel="nofollow ugc">You can</a>!</li>
<li>Taxonomy filtering – List recent posts filtered by categories, tags, or custom taxonomies!</li>
<li>Use your own layout! – Recently is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your recent posts list! (see <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/recently/wiki/3.-FAQ#how-can-i-use-my-own-html-markup-with-your-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">customizing Recently’s HTML markup</a> and <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/recently/wiki/4.-Styling-the-list" rel="nofollow ugc">How to style Recently</a> for more.)</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite support – Each site on the network can have its own recent posts list!</li>
<li>Localization – Translate Recently to your own language (See <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/recently/wiki/3.-FAQ#i-want-to-translate-your-plugin-into-my-language--help-you-update-a-translation-what-do-i-need-to-do" rel="nofollow ugc">translating Recently into your language</a> for more info).</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">Polylang</a>/<a href="https://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML 3.2+</a> support – Show the translated version of your recent posts!</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/" rel="ugc">WordPress Popular Posts</a> / <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/" rel="ugc">WP-PostViews</a> / <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-10/" rel="ugc">Top 10</a> support: – Display the views count of your recent posts!</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/" rel="ugc">WP-PostRatings</a> support. Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!</li>
</ul>
<h4>PSA: do not use the classic Recently widget with the new Widgets screen!</h4>
The classic Recently widget doesn’t work very well / at all with the new Widgets screen introduced with WordPress 5.8.
This new Widgets screen expects WordPress blocks instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the Recently widget on your block-based Widgets screen please replace it with the <a href="https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/recently-4-0-new-recently-block-php-5-support-dropped-minimum-supported-wordpress-version-changed/" rel="nofollow ugc">Recently block</a>.
<h4>Support the Project!</h4>
If you’d like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot!
<a href="https://ko-fi.com/cabrerahector" rel="nofollow ugc">Ko-fi</a> | <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cabrerahector" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal</a>
Recently is now also on <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/recently" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>!

Recently

A highly customizable, feature-packed Recent Posts widget!

Easy Recent Posts vs Recently