As of April 2026, Recent & Featured Posts Widget is a WordPress image plugin with 600 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4/51 reviews
600active installs
6.2K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Recent & Featured Posts Widget adds a list of recent posts or posts of your choosing with thumbnail images, post titles, dates, times, and excerpts.
Features:
- Excerpt Length. Change the number of words in the post excerpt.
- Excerpt Display. Show the excerpt as a dropdown when someone hovers over a section or display the excerpt directly on the page.
- CSS Modification. Modify certain CSS values including image width, text position, and border.
- Featured Posts. Don’t want to show recent posts? Enter a list of post IDs. The number of posts shown will depend on the total number of IDs.
- Thumbnail Images. Choose to show featured image, or the oldest image attached to a post is shown by default.
- Images of your Choosing. Enter a list of image IDs to replace the default images. Images are…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 4.4.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.0
- Released on August 26, 2015
- Added the option to display featured images.
Contributors
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