Advanced Recent Posts Widget
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4.3(14 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs 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.
4.3/514 reviews
2.0K+active installs
76K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
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:
- Display post thumbnails, with customizable size and automatic resizing using timthumb script.
- Display post excerpt, date, comment count, and more.
- Provides option to:
***show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
***show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
***show the post date.
***show read more link
***show the comment count.
***override the post order to order by; date, title, random, comment count etc.
***select multiple categories
***select custom post type - Multiple widgets.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
do you know what? no recent updates, but still works
by hawbsl·10 years ago
do you know what? no recent updates, nevertheless still works
Great Plugin!
by rglohre·12 years ago
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?
It works ok… but just ok
by sparky672·12 years ago
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.
Nice
by dbp·12 years ago
Works as advertised.
Does a great job
by crdunst·12 years ago
Exactly what was needed. Does one job and does it well.
Download Trends
Today: 2Yesterday: 3This week: 19Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to false |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1a
100.0%
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Updated timthumb.php
Updated advanced-recent-posts-widget.php html output
Contributors
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