Add posts to your website from any post type using a simple shortcode.
As of April 2026, WP Show Posts is a WordPress gallery plugin with 70K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 80 reviews. It has been downloaded 605K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
This plugin is only receiving security updates at this time. Check out our GenerateBlocks plugin for a more modern solution.
WP Show Posts allows you to display posts anywhere on your website using an easy to use shortcode.
You can pull posts from any post type like WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads etc..
This plugin works with any theme.
Here are the features in the free version:
Questo Plugin è molto utile, peccato non venga più aggiornato… ma grazie mille per averlo creato!
Nifty plugin allowed me to create a very smart, very attractive index with thumbnails of each article’s featured image.
Keep on keepin’ on …
TL;DR It doesn’t work with the current (as of 09-20-2023) version of WordPress- doesn’t show up in the editor! Luckily, the ‘Blog’ block of the free plugin ‘Premium Addons for Elementor’ functions very similarly! I am however rating WPSP as 5 stars because of how awesome it’s been up until recently :). So if you don’t plan to update yet, it’s still good.
We’ve been using it on our main site to make editing content easier on my friend, who gets overwhelmed by the Page editor. I wrote all the Page paragraphs as Posts, then used WP Show Posts to insert them onto the Pages. That way editing a post will auto-update its page.
But now, we cannot update WordPress or risk breaking the entire site! It will be a task to switch to another plugin but luckily the ‘Blog’ block of that other plugin seems to do what WP Show Posts was doing, while remaining in the Page editor.
The 1st plugin I found, which can show complete posts include images in widget. Really good job.
Just one thing is missing to me … to show random posts.
I installed it on the current version of WordPress since I started using generatepress now. It seemed like an ideal option, until after making half a website I realised that my menu stopped working. I don’t understand why they don’t update this plugin, if it’s great.
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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