Display latest posts with excerpts and comments in a sidebar widget.
As of April 2026, Pauls Latest Posts is a WordPress posts plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 5.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
Pauls Latest Posts displays a list of your latest posts and comments in the sidebar with excerpts. Excerpts length can be modified or left out completely. Useful for sites that display one post on the main page, and want to link to previous posts.
Feedback is welcome as are feature requests. Just leave a comment on the Plugin Page.
Thanks goes to the following people: Simon who suggested that I add the Latest Comments functionality, Juno for suggesting the HTML functionality, the ability to change the Read More text, specify post and comment titles, disabling and enabling post title, comment title and styles. Wil for suggesting the Randomised Offset setting, Farabi for suggesting the category option, Peter for reporting the bug fixed in version 1.8, Charles for the post da…
| WordPress | 2.3+ requiredTested up to 2.7.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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