Flexible Posts Widget
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
4.6(57 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Flexible Posts Widget is a WordPress tags plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 57 reviews. It has been downloaded 214K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 17% this week. Top alternative: Media Library Assistant.
4.6/557 reviews
8.0K+active installs
214K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
The default Recent Posts widget is exceptionally basic. I always find myself in need of a way to easily display a selection of posts from any combination post type or taxonomy. Hence, Flexible Posts Widget.
Flexible Posts Widget (FPW) is more than just a simple alternative to the default Recent Posts widget. With many per-instance options it is highly customizable and allows advanced users to display the resulting posts virtually any way imaginable.
Features & options
- Customizable widget title
- Get posts by post type(s) and/or taxonomy & term(s) or directly by a list of post IDs.
- Control the number of posts displayed and the number of posts to offset.
- Option to display the post feature image.
- Select the post feature image size to display from existing image sizes: thumbnail, medi…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works ok
by aljuk·7 years ago
URI problem
by 7am·7 years ago
The URI are different when you’re admin or just subscriber. Don’t work for everyone.
Doesn’t work
by Bobthearch·7 years ago
I can Select a Taxonomy as shown in the plugin screenshot, “Tags” for instance, but there is no Select Terms box. Without a way to select which tags, this plugin is useless. I suspect it needs to be updated.
How so many non-functioning never-updated plugins are allowed to remain listed for all time at WordPress… So frustrating.
Total mess up of search engine results, no support
by rom1our·8 years ago
Imagine, you have a post about wedding and in the footer the flexible post widget shows – when the crawler passes – in the category “practical tipps” the post “public toilets”. When you search “public toilets in the city x” as result the search engine will give out the post of the wedding.
Probably it would be necessary to noindex the output of the widget. I and others evidenced the problem to support but no answer. I’m actually looking for an alternative as this behaviour of the widget is not acceptable.
Not bad, but….
by Torgut·9 years ago
It works properly, but it lacks a nice visual design and above all, for what it is, it’s not understandable how come it doesn’t display the date of publishing of the posts.
Download Trends
Today: 6Yesterday: 12This week: 62Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.5
98.4%
Other
1.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.5.0
- Major codebase rewrite to prepare for additional widgets, options.
- Automatically updates any widget settings when the plugin is updated to a new version
- Multi Language support (WPML & PolyLang)
- Term selection box now uses built-in WordPress function
wp_terms_checklist(). This provides support for visually displaying nested terms and brings the plugin into compliance with WordPress code.
Contributors
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