Flex Posts – Widget and Gutenberg Block
A widget to display posts with thumbnails in various layouts. Fits nicely in any widget area size.
5(23 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Flex Posts is a WordPress news plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 56K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are up 7% this week. Top alternative: XML Sitemap & Google News.
5/523 reviews
3.0K+active installs
56K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
Flex Posts is a widget to display posts in various different layouts. It is useful for a news site where you need to display a lot of posts in a page.
The widget is responsive so you can place it in any widget area. The widget content will adapt based on the width of its container. In a narrow area like standard sidebar, posts will be displayed vertically, but in a wider area, posts will be displayed in 2 or 3 columns depends on the container’s width.
Widget Settings
- Title: Set the widget title. Leave it empty to hide the title section.
- Title URL: Set the title link url. Leave it empty to disable link in the title.
- Layout: Select a widget layout, from layout 1 to 4.
- Post type: Select the post type. Options include: Post, Page, custom post types if available, and any.
- Category: Sele…
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Ratings & Reviews
523 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great Plugin
by byermedia·1 year ago
Very nice plugin, allows you make custom layouts with ease, I tried a lot of display post content plugin and by far this one is the best so far.
However could use improvement. Total agree with the review “Almost perfect”. I’m using on very large websites and the bigger problem for me is unable to Exclude certain categories from showing, i’m just nit picking.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by byermedia.
Practical and effective
by SomniumLucidus·1 year ago
Does what it’s meant to do, and does it well. No fuss, no fluff, and good support to boot!
Very Easy to Use
by UncleMorty·3 years ago
I wanted a widget that would display a single post; one of my choice. This simple plugin isn’t really intended to do that, but it’s very easy to use and friendly. The plugin allows you to query a keyword, so I just added a unique keyword to my post, and specified that word in the plugin’s config, and set the number of posts to display to 1, simple! And I like the way it looks so much, I’ll be using the plugin after I’m done with the single post I wanted it for.
WordPress needs more plugins that display posts
by consumerista·3 years ago
Haven’t got to use it extensively yet but there’s a real need for plugins like this. Display recent posts block in core is really bad and not the easiest to customize with CSS.
Keep up the good work
Perfect
by wowthemesnet·4 years ago
Excellent plugin, congratulations.
Download Trends
Today: 15Yesterday: 15This week: 125Period total: 9K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.12
62.0%
v1.11
19.8%
Other
10.0%
v1.8
8.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.12.0
- Updated compatibility to WordPress 6.9
- Fixed author image hover style
- Fixed block settings label translations
- Fixed block style in Appearance » Widgets page
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