The simple plugin that allows you to display image slides with title, description and read more linked to posts from selected category.
As of April 2026, PE Recent Posts is a WordPress slides plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 61K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Slideshow Gallery LITE.
The simple plugin that allows you to display image slides with title, description and read more linked to posts from selected category. The slide title and description appear with slide-in animation effect.
The user may select the category or display items of all categories.
Number of slides is unlimited and you may specify how many slides you want to be visible in column.
Image sizes available to select from the list are determined at Media Settings of WordPress. This way the plugin do not have to scale images by itself which is more site optimization friendly solution.
Configuration (see screenshot of backend):
Actually the look is very good for one display size. But when working with different display sizes with same settings, sometimes pictures are overlaying. What I would really like to see is a “max column” setting instead of a fixed one. E.g. with my settings of images I would be happy with 1 column if width is below 600 pixels and I’m happy with 3 columns if width is above 950 pixels. But in the range in between 2 columns would be perfekt. Unfortunately it only “scales” from 1 directly to 3 columns. I guess the 600 pixels is a setting of my theme, at which it switches to mobile view.
This is great, I was making templates to do this, having the latest posts appear on the front page with the featured image is great. It just got a lot easier.
Muy sencillo y eficaz
i was looking for a plugin like this , and after so many plugin that i searched , this one could provide what i wanted . im using it for about 6 month and didnt find anything bad or bug.
thx it worked perfectly
I have a Problem with the new Version Version 1.1.
The Version 1.0.7 slide the Posts without problems.
I have update from 1.0.7 to 1.1 and the Posts would not slide.
Please help me.
localhost (WampServer 3.0.8)
PHP 5.6.30
MySQL 5.7.17
Apache 2.4.25
Thanks
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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