Donate link: http://www.safiweb.co.ke/ Tags: category, posts, recent, recent posts, widget, post-plugins Requires at least: 3.0 Tested up to: 3.3.
As of April 2026, Advanced Recent Posts Widget is a WordPress WordPress plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 76K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 19% this week.
Advanced Recent Posts Widget is a light widget advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from multiple categories or from custom post types.
Features:
do you know what? no recent updates, nevertheless still works
I’m with others, how come this is not included as a WordPress pre-installed!?
One minor quirk though….I cannot seem to get all of my categories to show up in the “Categories:” It’s only showing me four options? I have about 15…
Any ideas?
I needed a “recent posts” widget that can handle “Custom Post Types”. This one is working but has some issues…
1) Cannot change thumbnail size from 50×50 no matter what. Cursor just bounces out of fields. Why give the option if it cannot be changed?
2) If the thumbnail’s file name contains any spaces (converted to + signs by WP), the plugin chokes and shows a broken image link. WordPress can handle this, so should the plugin.
Works as advertised.
Exactly what was needed. Does one job and does it well.
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to false |
| PHP | false+ required |
Updated timthumb.php
Updated advanced-recent-posts-widget.php html output
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