DaveE

<p>The default Recent Posts widget is exceptionally basic. I always find myself in need of a way to easily display a selection of posts from any combination post type or taxonomy. Hence, Flexible Posts Widget.</p>
<p>Flexible Posts Widget (FPW) is more than just a simple alternative to the default Recent Posts widget.  With many per-instance options it is highly customizable and allows advanced users to display the resulting posts virtually any way imaginable.</p>
<h4>Features & options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable widget title</li>
<li>Get posts by post type(s) and/or taxonomy & term(s) or directly by a list of post IDs.</li>
<li>Control the number of posts displayed and the number of posts to offset.</li>
<li>Option to display the post feature image.</li>
<li>Select the post feature image size to display from existing image sizes: thumbnail, medium, large, post-thumbnail or any size defined by the current theme.</li>
<li>Order posts by: date, modified date, ID, title, menu order, random, Post ID Order; and sort posts: ascending or descending.</li>
<li>Each widget’s output can be customized by user-defined templates added to the current theme folder.</li>
<li>Multi Language support. Compatible with <a href="http://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">PolyLang</a> for sure. Not tested with other multi-language plugins, but it should work.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin Hooks</h4>
<p>Flexible posts widget currently has two public hooks:</p>
<ul>
<li>Filter: <a href="https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flexible-posts-widget/trunk/includes/class-fpw-widget.php#L191" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>dpe_fpw_args</code></a> allows filtering the query vars before submitting the widget posts query.</li>
<li>Filter: <a href="https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flexible-posts-widget/trunk/includes/class-fpw-widget.php#L354" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>dpe_fpw_template_{$template_name}</code></a> filters the template file path used to display the widget output.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future updates & feature requests list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use search box instead of ID text field for post id’s</li>
<li>Shortcode functionality.</li>
<li>Get posts by Author.</li>
<li>Filter out the post currently being viewed.</li>
<li>Get posts from the same archive (term/post type/etc).</li>
<li>Limit results by a time period.</li>
</ul>


Flexible Posts Widget

This has got to be the most useful plugin of its kind.



Seriousl excellent plugin

An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!

Sohan Zaman

<p>Have you ever been frustrated adding more and more categories or tags or any other terms in a rush? Don’t worry anymore. You can add thousands of terms in one go with this plugin.</p>
<h3>How do I do that?</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin and activate. A new menu called ‘Add Bulk Terms’ will pop up.</li>
<li>Click on the menu and you’ll be taken to a new page where you will see all the registered taxonomy either by theme or any plugin.</li>
<li>First select a taxonomy which you want to add terms.</li>
<li>Then insert the terms in the right side textarea. Make sure each line contains only one term.</li>
<li>Click on ‘Add Now’ button. A little confirmation will pop up just to make sure you have inserted everything correctly. Click yes and BOOM. All terms are added.</li>
</ol>
<h3>What about nesting parent and child?</h3>
<p>This plugin supports to do that. You can go and do nesting. You can indent child levels with a dash (-). For example:</p>
<pre><code>Foo
-Bar
-Baz
</code></pre>
<p>In the example above, ‘foo’ will be parent while ‘bar’ and ‘baz’ will be child of it.<br />
You can use correct indent to make even more child of child. Example:</p>
<pre><code>Foo
-Bar
--Baz
</code></pre>
<p>Complex nesting example:</p>
<pre><code>Foo
-Child of Foo~~foo-custom-slug
--Grand child of Foo~~grand-child-slug
-Second child of Foo
Baz is sibling of Foo
-Nephew of Foo
--Grand child of Baz
--Second grand child
-Son of Baz
-Daughter of Baz~~daughter-custom-slug
I am a lonely term
Do not have child
</code></pre>
<p>Unfortunately the maximum supported level is as deep as the SEA.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited terms per time</li>
<li>Unlimited level of nesting</li>
<li>Supports any registered taxonomy. (only those which can be added or removed within UI)</li>
<li>Uses AJAX request</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>version 2.0 update</em></strong><br />
* Custom slugs for each terms. Use the <code>~~</code> symbol to seperate name and slug.<br />
* Get all terms from selected taxonomy as a template. Later, use that template to add them to another taxonomy.<br />
* Remove all terms that were added by the plugin from selected taxonomy. (Requires at least WordPress 4.4 and plugin version 2.0 when Adding and deleting the terms)</p>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can’t add child items to those terms which are already added. If you try to do, the given parent item will add as a new term.</li>
</ul>
<p>GitHub repository: https://github.com/sohan5005/bulk-add-terms</p>


Bulk Add Terms

A lightweight plugin to add thousands of taxonomy terms in one go.

Flexible Posts Widget vs Bulk Add Terms