Simple Recent Post Widget with Advanced choice.
As of April 2026, Recent Posts Widget Advanced is a WordPress widget plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
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Simple Recent Post Widget with this filters:
• Post Type
• Post Format
• Categories (only for “Post Type” post)
• Tags (only for “Post Type” post)
• Authors
You can also:
• Display post Thumbnail
• Display sticky post
• Display post Data
• Display author
• Exclude widget in the same cpt page choice for widget
Use same class CSS of default WP Recent Post Widget.
You can choice to include or exclude post for Post Format, Categories, Tags and Authors.
From 1.3 version you can override default template with child theme on your-theme/widget-recent-post-advanced/frontend-1.php
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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