recent posts WordPress plugins

AH Sidebar Box v1.1.2

This widget adds a tabbed sidebar box with recent posts, last comments, categories, popular posts, a tag cloud and the archives to the sidebar.

Rating: ★ 5.0
Active installations: 34.7K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.8.34
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Sep 23, 2017
Downloads: 5.9K+ downloads

Beautiful Recent Posts Widget v5.0.0

Show recent posts with thumbnails, category filters, excerpts, and list or card layouts. Use a native block, classic widget, or shortcode.

Rating: ★ 4.6
Active installations: 48.9K+ active
Tested up to: WP 7.1.4
Requires PHP: PHP 7.4
Updated: Updated 37d ago
Downloads: 8.8K+ downloads

Custom latest posts widget v1.0

Improve your sidebar a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, post type

Rating: ★ 4.8
Active installations: 10.9K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.8.34
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Dec 15, 2017
Downloads: 16.3K+ downloads

Custom Recent Posts Widget Plus v1.1

Nice widget it is like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category and in addition show the thumbnails.

Rating: ★ 4.9
Active installations: 16.0K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.0.38
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated May 3, 2015
Downloads: 19.4K+ downloads

Fancy Posts Widget v1.4

Another posts widget plugin

Rating: ★ 5.0
Active installations: 5.0K+ active
Tested up to: WP 3.7.41
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Nov 17, 2013
Downloads: 6.0K+ downloads

GA-PVcounter v0.4.0

Google Analytics PageView counter and Popular posts, Recent posts widget

Rating: ★ 4.7
Active installations: 67.7K+ active
Tested up to: WP 3.6.1
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Oct 1, 2013
Downloads: 8.8K+ downloads

Gallery Recent Posts v1.0.0

Displays recent posts thumbnails as the masonry grid gallery.

Rating: ★ 4.9
Active installations: 8.2K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.7.39
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated May 18, 2017
Downloads: 9.5K+ downloads

GSY Ajax Recent Posts v1.0

Provides a widget for your site’s most recent posts with ajax.

Rating: ★ 5.0
Active installations: 5.5K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.0.38
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Sep 5, 2014
Downloads: 7.4K+ downloads

Launchpad Popular Posts v1.0

This is a very simple, easy to use plugin which creates a widget that can be used to display Popular Posts, Related Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Post …

Rating: ★ 4.6
Active installations: 22.4K+ active
Tested up to: WP 5.1.28
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated May 6, 2019
Downloads: 17.8K+ downloads

ListPosts Shortcode v1.2

ListPosts Shortcode is a shortcode that adds a highly customized list of blog posts anywhere on their site.

Rating: ★ 4.9
Active installations: 20.5K+ active
Tested up to: WP 3.9.40
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Jun 10, 2014
Downloads: 12.4K+ downloads

Material Sidebar Posts v1.0

Provides latest posts with material style design, Display the posts with image and no thumbnail style and much more.

Rating: ★ 5.0
Active installations: 5.6K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.8.34
Requires PHP: PHP 5.2.4
Updated: Updated Nov 22, 2017
Downloads: 10.5K+ downloads

Multisite Recent Posts Widget v1.1

Creates a widget to show a list of the most recent posts across a WordPress MU installation. It shows the most recent post from each blog.

Rating: ★ 4.5
Active installations: 27.7K+ active
Tested up to: WP 3.0.5
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Apr 1, 2012
Downloads: 9.2K+ downloads

Multisite Taxonomy Widget v1.3.1

List the latest posts of a specific taxonomy from your blog-network.

Rating: ★ 4.7
Active installations: 6.2K+ active
Tested up to: WP 6.9.11
Requires PHP: PHP 7.4
Updated: Updated Dec 9, 2025
Downloads: 7.8K+ downloads

News In Stack Widget v1.3.1

Just another recent post widget. Simple but flexible.

Rating: ★ 4.7
Active installations: 15.3K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.1.42
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Mar 5, 2015
Downloads: 6.5K+ downloads

Posts By Taxonomy Widget v1.0.3

Display a list of taxonomy terms with recent posts in those terms in a simple to use widget

Rating: ★ 4.9
Active installations: 144.2K+ active
Tested up to: WP 3.5.2
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Mar 7, 2013
Downloads: 7.7K+ downloads

Recent Popular Comment Tag Widget v1.0

Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.

Rating: ★ 4.7
Active installations: 122.7K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.9.35
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Jul 8, 2018
Downloads: 8.2K+ downloads

Recent Related Post And Page v1.5.8

Show Recent Related Posts Pages Using Widget & Shortcode

Rating: ★ 5.0
Active installations: 124.2K+ active
Tested up to: WP 7.1.4
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated 53d ago
Downloads: 9.3K+ downloads

Root Category Recent Posts v1.2

Another last posts widget which get recent posts only for the current root category.

Rating: ★ 4.7
Active installations: 6.7K+ active
Tested up to: WP 3.6.1
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Dec 9, 2013
Downloads: 17.1K+ downloads

Story Latest v0.2

Easily place links to the latest posts on a story below each post

Rating: ★ 4.9
Active installations: 109.1K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.0.38
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Sep 3, 2014
Downloads: 6.0K+ downloads

Super Advanced Posts v3.2

Add Ajax in widgets Filter Taxonomy and Terms. More easily and dynamic Post by Filter. Adds a widget that can display recent posts and other posts fro …

Rating: ★ 4.8
Active installations: 106.2K+ active
Tested up to: WP 5.0.31
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Feb 17, 2019
Downloads: 8.5K+ downloads

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