Recent Posts Plus
An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget, allows display of thumbnails, post excerpt, author, comment count, and more.
4.8(14 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs 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….
4.8/514 reviews
1.0K+active installs
50K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.
Features Include:
- Display post thumbnails, with customizable size.
- Display post excerpt, author, comment count, and more.
- Provides options to trim the number of characters in the title and excerpt.
- Override the post order to order by; date modified, title, post ID, random, comment count etc.
- Exclude or include specific posts, authors, tags, or categories.
- Also includes a simple template parser so you can override the default output making custom styling easy.
Documentation
See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Still great! And also author displaying
by Damiaan van Vliet·10 years ago
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 🙂
perfect!
by jonasrafael·11 years ago
works perfectly on latest version of wordpress!
amz!
thumb up
by bahuett·11 years ago
thumbs up
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>
Very well done
by Matt Jensen·11 years ago
Just want to give my kudos for an extremely well done, powerful, and well thought out plugin.
Thanks again
Cheers
Matt
Very happy
by sabinevi·12 years ago
Very nice work indeed because of the WP_Query and PHP-code options in the widget.
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.9.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.11
- Exclude sticky posts being included at the beginning of posts returned, but the sticky post will still be returned in the natural order of that list of posts returned
Contributors
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