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Plugin info

Total downloads: 1,075
Active installs: 0
Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 11/24/2025 (38 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 10/15/2024 (1 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 2.9.3
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 38 days ago • 1 reviews

61/100

Is Recent CPT Widget Thumbnails abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 38 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 2.9.3
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f

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Developers

Ali Qureshi (Owner)5

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Description

The Recent CPT Widget Thumbnails plugin allows you to display a list of the most recent posts, cpt from all or a specific category or tag. It not only shows the post title, but also an excerpt of the post & thumbnail.

Installation

  1. First you will have to upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  2. Then activate the plugin in the plugin panel.
  3. Go to ‘Appearance’ > ‘Widgets’ and drag the Recent Posts Widget Plus to the required position in the sidebar.
  4. Type a title for the widget (you can leave this blank)
  5. Type the number of recent posts to show in the widget
  6. Specify the excerpt length by number of characters
  7. Choose a specific category or select None (all categories) to show all categories
  8. Choose the post tags you would like to use to filter the list (optional)
  9. Click save.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference with the default Recent Post widget

All WordPress installs come with a default widget for showing recent posts. The advantage of using the Recent Posts Widget Plus plugin, is that you cannot only show the post titles but also an excerpt from the post and define how many characters of the excerpt are displayed. This plugin also allows you to display recent posts from a custom post type.

Review feed

Ali Qureshi
10/15/2024

Works well

While trying to add 'Latest Posts' for custom post type with thumbnails, I found out, there was no plugin available for CPT, so I authored this small plugin widget, using another plugin, and added required missing features, and cleaned some code. Hope that helps.

Screenshots

  1. You can set the widget title, the number of posts, the length of the excerpt and select a category to display the recent posts from or choose to display the recent posts with a certain tag.

    You can set the widget title, the number of posts, the length of the excerpt and select a category to display the recent posts from or choose to display the recent posts with a certain tag.

  2. This is an example of how the widget can look.

    This is an example of how the widget can look.

Changelog

0.6.5

  • Fixed bugs for html and displaying date, categories and tags from admin panel

0.6.3

  • Fixed bugs for html and number of posts
  • Added displaying post date option for posts
  • Added displaying post categories option for posts
  • Added displaying post tags option for posts

0.5.0

  • Updated for WordPress 6.8

0.3.0

First release

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