Provide a widget to show the hot tags of your recent posts.
As of April 2026, WP Recent Tags is a WordPress post plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 17 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
Provide a widget to show the hot tags of your recent posts.
What’s Tag?
Tag is simply a word you can use to describe something, with WordPress, ‘something’ will be your posts or pages. It’s very easy to use, think this way, if you want to google your post, what keywords should you use, that’s it.
Why ‘Recent Tags’?
Giving an example:
Olympics were very hot about a month ago, and we might write many posts about this topic, then ‘Olympics’ was a very hot tag. But Olympics would not always the hot spot, right? It’s gone, and we might talk Elections now, so how to let the visitors get this, get what you’re talking about now?
Recent Tags! That’s the simplest way.
How to define ‘Recent’ and something y…
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 2.6.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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