TW Recent Posts Widget
A simple and flexible widget for WordPress which will show recent posts from selected category allowing increased customization to display recent post …
4.4(15 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, TW Recent Posts Widget is a WordPress category plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 69K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
4.4/515 reviews
1.0K+active installs
69K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
TW Recent Posts Widget is advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from category you define.
Output will depend on your settings, and you may define to set post title, post date, featured image and post excerpt.
If you set to display featured image, than you will be able to define image width and height in px.
If you set to display excerpt, than you will be able to define how many characters to print and also you may add custom read more text.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Bon plugin
·9 years ago
Simple et efficace. Une bonne alternative au défunt Special Recent Posts FREE Edition. Merci
Excellent Plugin
by dailyshoe·10 years ago
I’m so glad I found it!
The only thing I’d like to do is be able to centre the image in the widget.
Worked great until today.
by jonaso·10 years ago·5 replies
Seems the category function no longer works with the most recent WP update? Anybody else have this issue?
Satisfies The One Use I Have For it
by Jeffro·11 years ago
I use this widget to show the last ten posts in a category. The widget shows the last 10 posts in the shownotes category and is displayed on the podcast information page. It’s an enhanced version of the default WordPress recent posts widget. This one works just fine and has options to boot.
useful
by gusliedke·12 years ago
good job
Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 5This week: 27Period total: 847
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.4.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.5
- Removed constructor method for WP_Widget which is now deprecated
- Fixed bug with listing categories
Contributors
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