Plugin info

Total downloads: 13,441
Active installs: 300
Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 11/17/2025 (44 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 12/28/2017 (8 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 44 days ago • 1 reviews

61/100

Is Recent Posts Widget Advanced abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 44 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 5.6

Languages

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Description

Don’t work? Open ticket, we answer in max 48h.

Simple Recent Post Widget with this filters:

• Post Type
• Post Format
• Categories (only for “Post Type” post)
• Tags (only for “Post Type” post)
• Authors

You can also:

• Display post Thumbnail
• Display sticky post
• Display post Data
• Display author
• Exclude widget in the same cpt page choice for widget

Use same class CSS of default WP Recent Post Widget.
You can choice to include or exclude post for Post Format, Categories, Tags and Authors.
From 1.3 version you can override default template with child theme on your-theme/widget-recent-post-advanced/frontend-1.php

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins page directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ page in WordPress.
  3. Add Widget “Advanced Recent Posts” and setup properly.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where I can find post, page, taxonomy and author ID?

You can find in admin list page, if you disable this option you can check screenshot for another method.

Which is widget CSS ID?

You can use this id widget-recent-posts-in-category-*
*number of widget, you can show in browser console

Review feed

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Screenshots

  1. Where you can show post, page, taxonomy and author ID with ID column disabled.

    Where you can show post, page, taxonomy and author ID with ID column disabled.

  2. How setup widget.

    How setup widget.

Changelog

1.4.1

  • Fix uninstall!

1.4.0

  • Many bugfix.

1.3.6

  • 6.6 compatibility.

1.3.5

  • Fix esc error. Removed unused template.

1.3.4

  • Bugfix.

1.3.3

  • Bugfix and compatibility.

1.3.2

  • Bugfix.

1.3.1

  • Bugfix and compatibility.

1.3

  • Now you can override default template on your-theme/widget-recent-post-advanced/frontend-1.php and you can exclude widget in the same cpt page of the widget post query.

1.2

  • Compatibility WordPress 5.7.

1.1

  • Version compatibility update.

1.0.1

  • Settings page for disable column ID.

1.0

  • New name and bug fix.

0.9.2

  • Version compatibility update.

0.9.1

  • Version compatibility update.

0.9

  • We are alive!

0.8

  • Bugfix.

0.7

  • Added post thumbnail option.

0.6

  • Added post format filter.

0.5.2

  • Bugfix.

0.5.1

  • Bugfix.

0.5

  • Added post type filter. Important bugfix for save!

0.4.2

  • Bugfix.

0.4.1

  • Changed plugin name.

0.4

  • Added author posts filter, offset filter and author name.

0.3

  • Added tags and sticky posts filter. Changed query ‘cat’ to ‘category__in’.

0.2.1

  • Bugfix for uninstall.

0.2

  • Added flag for exclude post in category.

0.1

  • Initial release