Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
4.8(212 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is a WordPress images plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 212 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are down 8% this week. Support resolution rate: 75%. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
4.8/5212 reviews
100K+active installs
75%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
Although the plugin is built only for widget areas users reported that it works in Elementor and works in Oxygen. Whether it runs in other page builders is unknown. Please let me know in which page builder you were able to use the plugin successfully.
The plugin does not collect any personal data, so it is ready for EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.
Lightweight, simple and effective
No huge widget with hundreds of options. This plugin is based on the well-known WordPress default widget ‘Recent Posts’ and extended to display more information about the posts like e.g. thumbnails, excerpts and assigned categories. And it provides more options to build cus…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.8212 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Niiiiice, thanks
by rapidasia·2 months ago
gotta have plugin, thanks
So many settings!
by lollyroll·5 months ago·1 reply
It’s great that your plugin has so many settings for widgets. Thanks for making it.
Simple but Invaluable Plugin
by funkster·9 months ago·1 reply
This plugin performs a simple task but one that I find to be invaluable.
Help on a undefined array key rand
by techspecx·1 year ago·4 replies
Hello,
I hope all is well. The plugin worked flawlessy for years but now I am getting the below message when I debug my site. Could you help?
The plugin works fine when I have the debug off. Thank you.
Regards,
Robert
Warning: Undefined array key “rand” in /var/www/mysite.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-with-thumbnails/recent-posts-widget-with-thumbnails.php on line 138
- This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by techspecx.
Génial
by evolute2·1 year ago
Bravo, le paramétrage peut être fait au millimètre, excellent !
Download Trends
Today: 138Yesterday: 121This week: 869Period total: 68K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v7.1
91.7%
Other
8.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
7.1.1
- Restored PHP 5.x support
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