Provide sidebar widget, shortcode and template functions that can be used to display posts from a set of tags using various options in the sidebar or …
As of April 2026, Posts By Tag is a WordPress tag plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 80K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
Posts By Tag WordPress Plugin, provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar.
These tags can be specified in the widget or the Plugin can automatically retrieve them from the current post tags, post slug or form custom field. The custom fields can be specified in the edit post or page screen.
You can also use shortcode or template function to display the posts.
The Plugin caches the posts of each widget separately, and issues database queries only when needed. This will reduce the amount of database queries involved for each page load and will therefore be light on your server. If this clashes with other Plugins, you also have an option to disable it.
Posts By Tag Plugin provides a sidebar widget which can be…
Been using this plugin for a couple of years and just keeps working.
Very nice plugin, man. I was going to build something myself, but then I found yours. Thanks for saving me a lot of time!
doesn’t work at all
No matter where I add the widget, or which option I use to tell it where to get tags, this plugin NEVER shows up. Tried on multiple websites. Great premise, really wish it worked.
This doesn’t seem to work. Depending on which options are checked within the plugin, it prevents the page from loading at all.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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