Posts Viewed Recently plugin shows recently viewed posts or pages by a visitor as a responsive sidebar widget or on a page/post using the shortcode.
As of April 2026, Posts Viewed Recently is a WordPress last plugin with 800 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Last Updated Shortcode.
This plugin contains a responsive widget for showing posts or pages recently visited by a visitor. Posts Viewed Recently plugin is capable to show custom post types and you can also show this widget on your page/post using shortcode provided in widget options.
With this plugin you can choose post types to show, the number of posts to display, show or hide the featured image, dimensions of the featured image and alternate image URL if featured image is not available, and display post date or not.
For more detail, visit the plugin page at our official website. You are welcome to post issues, contribution and feature requests at GitHub repo.
To show this widget in any post/page, copy and paste the shortcode generated by the widget to that post or page.
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| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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