Recently
A highly customizable, feature-packed Recent Posts widget!
5(9 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 10 months agoAs of April 2026, Recently is a WordPress posts plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 12K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.7+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
5/59 reviews
300active installs
12K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Let’s face it: WordPress’ default Recent Posts widget does the job as promised but it’s not very flexible. Things like excluding certain entries from the list or displaying recent posts by category can’t be done with the stock Recent Posts widget. Therefore, let me introduce Recently.
Recently is a WordPress widget that displays your site’s most recent posts. And it doesn’t stop there:
Main Features
- Multiple Recently lists – That is, you can have several Recently lists on your blog – each with its own settings!
- Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your recent posts! (see the FAQ section for more details.)
- Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Recent Products? You can!
- Taxonomy filteri…
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Ratings & Reviews
59 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.7+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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Changelog
4.2.0
If you’re using a page caching plugin it’s highly recommended to clear its cache after upgrading to this version.
- Improves compatibility with Autoptimize, LiteSpeed Cache, Polylang, Speed Optimizer, W3 Total Cache, and WP Rocket.
- Fixes an issue where your recent posts list may get stuck in the loading animation on macOS/iOS devices.
- Fixes PHP notice about textdomain being called incorrectly.
- Modernizes and cleans up Recently’s JS files.
- Improved CSP compatibility.
…and 1 more changes
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