Recent Posts by Category Widget
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
4.7(12 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Recent Posts by Category Widget is a WordPress widget plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 33K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
4.7/512 reviews
4.0K+active installs
33K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
This plugin adds a simple widget that allows you to display a number of recent blog posts from a specific category. You have the options to choose a title, category, number of posts and whether or not to show the post date. The posts will be ordered by date just like the default Recent Posts widget included with WordPress.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very usefull
by Jacques Malgrange·9 years ago
Very good and simple plugin.
Does not work with Multisite
by ElectricMud·9 years ago
Installation and use is simple and practical (5 stars) but it does not support Multi Site, hence the 2 stars
very easy to use
by Abbas·10 years ago
Works fine, very helpful. Thanks
Multiple categories for the next update ?
by mengeco·10 years ago
This plugin would be perfect if we could select multiple categories. Maybe for the next update?
It preserves the default styles css of the original theme, that’s great !!
Thank you very much Ross !!!!
Simple and efficient
by Andrija Naglic·10 years ago
Works just fine with latest version of wp, and is just what I needed, a simple and efficient wp plugin for recent posts filtered by category, no extra features.
Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 8This week: 36Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
98.9%
v1.1
1.1%
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Changelog
1.3
- Removed an anonymous function that was breaking sites running PHP 5.2
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