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!

JS Morisset

<p>The JSM Show Term Metadata plugin displays term (ie. categories, tags, and custom taxonomies) meta keys and unserialized values in a metabox at the bottom of the term editing page.</p>
<p>There are no plugin settings – simply install and activate the plugin.</p>
<h4>Shows Yoast SEO Term Meta</h4>
<p>Yoast SEO stores its term (ie. categories, tags, and custom taxonomies) metadata in the WordPress options table, not the term meta table.</p>
<p>The JSM Show Term Metadata plugin can read and display Yoast SEO’s term metadata, but it cannot be deleted (as it does not reside in the WordPress term meta table).</p>
<h4>Available Filters for Developers</h4>
<p>Filter the term meta shown in the metabox:</p>
<pre><code>'jsmstm_metabox_table_metadata' ( array $metadata, $term_obj )
</code></pre>
<p>Array of regular expressions to exclude meta keys:</p>
<pre><code>'jsmstm_metabox_table_exclude_keys' ( array $exclude_keys, $term_obj )
</code></pre>
<p>Capability required to show term meta:</p>
<pre><code>'jsmstm_show_metabox_capability' ( 'manage_options', $term_obj )
</code></pre>
<p>Show term meta for a taxonomy (defaults to true):</p>
<pre><code>'jsmstm_show_metabox_taxonomy' ( true, $taxonomy )
</code></pre>
<p>Capability required to delete term meta:</p>
<pre><code>'jsmstm_delete_meta_capability' ( 'manage_options', $term_obj )
</code></pre>
<p>Icon for the delete term meta button:</p>
<pre><code>'jsmstm_delete_meta_icon_class' ( 'dashicons dashicons-table-row-delete' )
</code></pre>
<h4>Related Plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-show-comment-meta/" rel="ugc">JSM Show Comment Metadata</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-show-order-meta/" rel="ugc">JSM Show Order Metadata for WooCommerce HPOS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-show-post-meta/" rel="ugc">JSM Show Post Metadata</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-show-term-meta/" rel="ugc">JSM Show Term Metadata</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-show-user-meta/" rel="ugc">JSM Show User Metadata</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-show-registered-shortcodes/" rel="ugc">JSM Show Registered Shortcodes</a></li>
</ul>


JSM Show Term Metadata

Show term metadata in a metabox when editing terms - a great tool for debugging issues with term metadata.

Flexible Posts Widget vs JSM Show Term Metadata