List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
As 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.
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.
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…
gotta have plugin, thanks
It’s great that your plugin has so many settings for widgets. Thanks for making it.
This plugin performs a simple task but one that I find to be invaluable.
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
Bravo, le paramétrage peut être fait au millimètre, excellent !
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
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