A widget for displaying highlighted post on your sidebar and displayed your recent update post.
As of April 2026, Plugin Name: Highlight Post Widget is a WordPress post plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
The purpose of this plugin is simple. I want to list recents update of my posts. Similiar to default “Recent Posts Widget” by WordPress, but this one sort the post by last modified time and enable to add a short note about change or update being made.
For example, I maintaince a wordpress plugin (we name it, “Hollydolly Plugin”) and create a post about it on my blog. And because the nature of blog—when new posts are added the older ones are taken down automatically—it’s only a matter of time that post ‘disappeared’ from frontpage and no longer seen by visitor. So, when I release a new version of “Hollydolly Plugin” and updated the old post about it, unfortunately, there is no way I can do to ‘attract’ visitor to read (again) that post.
Right, in the new version of WordPress (since version…
| WordPress | 2.9.2+ requiredTested up to 2.9.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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