This plugin displays the featured posts, recent posts, recent comments, popular posts, author details and author list.
As of April 2026, Advance Widget Pack is a WordPress recent posts plugin with 20 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails.
Advanced Widget Pack plugin comprises of seven widgets: Author Details, Author List, Popular Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Comments, Random Posts and Recent Posts.
Author Details: This widget displays author gravatar and allows you to align the gravatar to left or right. It also allows you to display author description which is already given by the user in his profile or you can add custom description.at the end you can add a read more link which will take you to your desired page and another option to display author\’s archive link.
Author List: This widget displays names of all authors who have published a post. It allows you to exclude one or more authors from the list by adding their IDs. you can also limit the number of authors to display.
Popular Post: By default, the title f…
| WordPress | 3.9.1+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
v1.0.7
Code Cleanup
v1.0.6
Code Cleanup
v1.0.5
Bug fixes
v1.0.4
Bug fixes
v1.0.3
Bug fix
v1.0.2
Added Random Posts widget.
v1.0.1
Added screenshots.
Minor bug fixes.
Added stylesheet.
v1.0.0
initial release
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