An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget, allows display of thumbnails, post excerpt, author, comment count, and more.
As of April 2026, Recent Posts Plus is a WordPress posts plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 50K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 8% this week. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.
Features Include:
See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/
I use this plug-in already a few years and it is great in customising. For example it has easy Widget Output Template ability on the widget itself.
So you can add for example the author’s name to be displayed using the {AUTHOR} code!
And with WP version 4.4.2 still working 🙂
works perfectly on latest version of wordpress!
amz!
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Very nice work indeed because of the WP_Query and PHP-code options in the widget.
same for me, you made my day!
i was looking for a widget to get the latest post, the 2nd latest, the 3rd latest (by date) etc….
tried like 7 or 8 widgets and i had yours installed while testing the last 4 of them.. till i clicked your plugin-homepage link.
i had to change a bit in the code, i hope you dont mind. but that’s another great feature. only 1 php file to edit.
what did i change: even when the title has zero size ” its being wrapped up by header tags <h3>
Just want to give my kudos for an extremely well done, powerful, and well thought out plugin.
Thanks again
Cheers
Matt
Very nice work indeed because of the WP_Query and PHP-code options in the widget.
| WordPress | 2.9.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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