Just like the default Recent Posts widget except that posts are with thumbnails and you can show ads between them, show post date and comments count.
As of April 2026, Latest Posts With Thumbnails and Ads is a WordPress widget plugin with 30 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
This plugin will generate a widget for you website where you can show latest posts of your blog with thumbnails and choose to show ads between posts for every X post(you choose it ), you can select to show or hide post date, comments count and the total number of posts to be shown, when the widget is active on single post view the current post will be ignored from the list. All posts are sorted by latest post date. As well you have a text area where you can add you’r ads code, html and js is accepted so you can put your banner or any google ads code.
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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