Ultimate Posts Widget

This plugin recently became a spam address harvester, sending automated emails to registered users asking them to ‘confirm their address’. Don’t install.

Really love this widget, looks great on my sidebar, once it’s configured.
However, that configuration is a bit of a gotcha, as the visibility settings keep reverting to defaults with everything enabled (I only need the titles visible), so any time I change another tab’s settings, I also have to go to the Visibility tab and turn the default stuff back off again as well. It’s like the plugin isn’t reading the current visibility settings, and simply shows its own default selections whenever it loads its view, so that’s what gets submitted on save if you don’t go back in and set them right again.

This didn’t work at all for me. The Display, Filter, and Order tabs were not clickable, leaving no way to tell it which post(s) to use.

This is an awesome plugin. It causes issues if you are using the widget on a Divi Sidebar module, it puts part of the sidebar code into the wp-admin dashboard on any pages with that module and widget on it. Unfortunately, I can’t change themes, so I couldn’t use, but overall this is a great plugin with lots of options.

Installed to create a simple list of custom post type posts, and BOOM, worked just as I hoped.