SideNails allow you to display a list of the last posts with a thumbnail, in a widget. For this, SideNails use the images linked to your post (thumbna …
As of April 2026, SideNails is a WordPress yarpp plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Inline Related Posts.
SideNails was first developed for my own use. But I think it could be useful to someone else 😉
Basically, SideNails can do one thing :
– get an image from your post, and use it in a widget to make a thumbnail link to this post.
Of course, you can customise the “last post” : you can setup the number of posts shown, and also filter these posts by categories and/or tags.
The images used to make the thumbnails can be from the post’media library, a post’featured image, a NextGen Gallery linked to the post, or a custom fields where you setup the link to this image.
You can also change the default size (even if it’s not recommanded) to your choice.
In bonus, there is also a specific template to be used with YARPP Plugin. It allow you to display the related li…
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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