Justin Tadlock

The Query Posts widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show posts in any way they’d like. It’s like having a cool WordPress developer as a friend ready to do your bidding. Seriously.
The widget has over 40 options to choose from. You can list posts by category, tag, custom taxonomies, author, date, time, name, or anything you can imagine. You can choose to show the full content, excerpts, or even a simple list. You can order the posts in all sorts of ways. Oh, and you can even show pages.
This is the widget that keeps users out of the code and gives them the ability to display items on their site how they want.

Query Posts

A WordPress widget that gives you unlimited control over showing posts and pages.

toddhalfpenny

The easiest, and highest rated way to Add Widgets to Posts and/or Pages. Create unlimited dynamic sidebars (widget areas) and insert these into a WordPress post or page.
Create as many widget areas (Turbo Sidebars) from the settings menu, and these can be used multiple times.
Each sidebar can be called independently by a shortcode, and you can call more than one per post/page.
Sidebars can be included in the post/page by using a shortcode like the following, where <code>x</code> is the name of the sidebar.
<pre><code>[widgets_on_pages id=x]
</code></pre>
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With the <a href="https://datamad.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/widgets-on-pages/" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a> version the widgets can be inserted simply with clicks-not-code using a wizard in the visual editor. This version also includes layout options to easily set the widgets in columns/grid presentation.
Pro version also supports the configurable option to automatically add widgets to all your posts and/or pages. Choose the layout options and whether to add the sidebar and widgets before or after the content. Ideal for adding lists of related posts to the end of every post. Each post and page can also be individually excluded from the auto-inclsion of the widgets.
<a href="https://datamad.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/widgets-on-pages/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> key features 
 * Responsive Horizontal/Column/Grid layout 
 * Auto insert in Header, Content, or Footer 
 * Priority Support
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Basic In-Content Instructions
<ul>
<li>Create a Turbo Sidebar, these are your special widget containers</li>
<li>Add widgets to the Turbo Sidebar in the same way as you do for normal sidebars</li>
<li>If using the visual editor use the Add Turbo Sidebar button to add the Shortcode into your post or page where you’d like it to appear.</li>
</ul>
The sidebars can also be added to any theme, using template tags. This is an ace way to add widgets/sidebars to a theme’s header and footer (or any other part of a theme).
Demo Video
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w2LfCihCqRI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
Current Features Include
<ul>
<li>Highest Rating – 122 5* Reviews</li>
<li>No Coding needed</li>
<li>Create unlimited sidebars</li>
<li>Place them in posts/pages/custom post types</li>
<li>Add to themes using template tags</li>
<li>Works with ALL widgets and themes (let us know if you have an issue)</li>
</ul>
Recent Reviews
∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Just purchased PRO version and well worth the money. – <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-useful-plugin-19/" rel="ugc">@artmuns</a>
∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Works as advertised + timely response to support request – <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-as-advertised-timely-response-to-support-request/" rel="ugc">@3cstudio</a>
∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Saving me HOURS of work – <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saving-me-hours-of-work/" rel="ugc">@andynick</a>

Widgets on Pages

The easiest and highest rated way to Add Widgets or Sidebars to Posts and Pages using Visual editor,  shortcodes or template tags.

Query Posts vs Widgets on Pages