linux4me2

<p>This widget allows you to insert arbitrary Text and/or HTML code (optional) to precede a list of recent posts by category. It makes it easy to add introductory comments and to achieve interesting effects like wrapping your posts list around an image. It’s designed to be lightweight and easy on resources.</p>
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<p>Note: Widget Blocks, added in WordPress 5.8, make this plugin no longer necessary. The same results can be obtained by using a Widget Group, Heading Block, Custom HTML Block, and the  Latest Posts Block. The latter also allows the use of multiple categories, which is not available with this plugin. Unless something major happens to change things, I won’t be developing the plugin beyond the current version (2.0.0).</p>
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HTML Plus Recent Posts by Category Widget

Like the Legacy Recent Posts widget, but adds the ability to select the category and add text or HTML before the list of posts.

JoomUnited

<p>Load your content from posts, page, tags or custom post type and display it anywhere in WordPress including in Gutenberg editor</p>
<h3>IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THIS PLUGIN:</h3>
<p>After careful consideration, we’ve decided to merge the free versions of WP Meta SEO, WP Speed of Light, and WP Latest Posts into their respective premium versions. This consolidation will allow us to focus our resources on developing more robust, feature-rich extensions. We do offer some easy migration and prices for free users though.</p>
<h4>Read the full article: <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/news/important-announcement-evolving-our-wordpress-extensions-for-better-service-and-performance" title="Important announcement: Evolving our extensions for better service and performance" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog post announcement</a>.</h4>
<p>Get any WordPress content like posts, pages, tagged content or custom post type and display them as a slider. Some additional responsive and designed themes are also available. This is definitively the best way to build a news page without coding anything. WP Latest Posts can be used with all page builders, Gutenberg, WooCommerce in a click and even in custom page layouts using a PHP snippet. We build your news layout, and so you can focus on your content only.</p>
<p><strong>More details:</strong> <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts" rel="friend nofollow ugc"> https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts</a></p>
<h4>Video demo:</h4>
<div class="embed-vimeo" style="text-align: center;"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/77775570" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<h3>Advanced settings to load WordPress latest posts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Select your content source like posts, post category list, page selection, custom post type, tagged content</li>
<li>Select your display options like the number of rows, columns, text crop, colors…</li>
<li>Select your image source (1st post image or featured)</li>
<li>Advanced parameters for date format, custom CSS for a perfect news display</li>
<li>Load content from WooCommerce or any plugin that uses custom post type</li>
<li>Gutenberg dedicated block</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite compatible</li>
</ul>
<h3>Main recent posts features (free plugin version)</h3>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited latest posts instances</li>
<li>Customizable elements to load: image, title, text, category, author, date, read more</li>
<li>Insert news blocks with a quick button</li>
<li>Display as a sidebar widget</li>
<li>Select number of columns and pages in a news block</li>
<li>Select number of elements (post, pages) to be loaded</li>
<li>Filter news display by date</li>
<li>Define an offset for news display</li>
<li>Dispatch and order content in each block with drag-and-drop</li>
<li>Select categories of the listed contents</li>
<li>Limit the total number of displayed news items</li>
<li>Select image source (featured image thumbnail, first image attachment, or post first image)</li>
<li>Add custom margins around images</li>
<li>Create carousel sliding news displays with a few clicks</li>
<li>Custom icon and overlay on news blocks</li>
<li>Full <strong>out-of-the box support of WordPress default theme</strong> and most common custom themes and styling</li>
<li>PHP code snippet to include news block in your pages</li>
<li>WPML integration: Filter news content by WPML language</li>
<li>Polylang integration: Filter news content by Polylang language</li>
<li>Progressive loading for images in default theme for better performance</li>
</ul>
<h3>The Latest posts plugin addon features (optional)</h3>
<ul>
<li>8 responsive premium themes</li>
<li>1 Masonry type themes</li>
<li>Display news as slider, timeline, maulti-category wall…</li>
<li>Color picker for themes elements</li>
<li>Load content from custom post type</li>
<li>Load content before/after a date</li>
<li>Load content from the latest X years, month, days, hours</li>
<li>Unlimited sidebar widget instances</li>
<li>Multiple news block instance per page</li>
<li>Automatic news title cropping using the number of words, characters, or lines</li>
<li>Automatic cropping of text excerpt using the number of words, characters, or lines</li>
<li>Automatic animation of sliders</li>
<li>Add a “load more” items button on masonry themes</li>
<li>Change animation type</li>
<li>Default image selection (if no image available in content)</li>
<li>Support WordPress tag as content source</li>
<li>Custom “read more” text</li>
<li>Default images as vector</li>
<li>1 year of <strong>2 levels personal ticket support</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>Load Recent contents from other 3rd party plugins (integration)</h3>
<ul>
<li>Latest WooCommerce products and categories</li>
<li>ACF full integration: load latest custom fields and group of fields</li>
<li>WPML integration: load only content by WPML language</li>
<li>Polylang integration: load only content by Polylang language</li>
<li>Load recent posts from custom post types</li>
<li>Can be added as shortcode or PHP snippet</li>
<li>Can be added as Gutenberg latest post block</li>
<li>Load recent news in Elementor, DIVI and all page builders</li>
</ul>
<p>Main plugins from JoomUnited:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-media-folder" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Media Folder:</a>  Supercharge your media library with folders</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-file-download" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP File Download: </a>  Best in class file and document manager</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-meta-seo" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Meta SEO: </a>  Search Engine Optimization made easy</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-table-manager" rel="friend nofollow ugc"> WP Table Manager: </a>  Create and manage tables with style</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-speed-of-light" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Speed of Light: </a>  Speedup your website easily</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Detailed documentation, information, and <strong>support can be found here on the <a href="http://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts" rel="nofollow ugc">JoomUnited website</a></strong></p>
<p>A dedicated private ticket support is also available on the website.</p>


WP Latest Posts


Not impressed at all really, just a bunch of blurry featured images on my front page. Unable to remove the name of the post list from my front page, I could go on, there has to be better than this.


Blurs all of the featured images

Load your content from posts, page, tags or custom post type and display it anywhere in WordPress including in Gutenberg editor

HTML Plus Recent Posts by Category Widget vs WP Latest Posts