WordPress plugin comparison

Material Sidebar Posts vs Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails

Material Sidebar Posts

by jetendra pradhan

10+ installs5.0

At a glance

Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails has more active installs: 100K+, against 10+ for Material Sidebar Posts.
On a typical day, Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is downloaded about 623 times, Material Sidebar Posts about 1.
Material Sidebar Posts is rated higher: 5.0 out of 5 from 1 review, against 4.8 from 215 reviews.
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails was updated more recently: Oct 10, 2026, against Nov 22, 2017 for Material Sidebar Posts.
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is tested with a newer WordPress: 7.1.4, against 4.8.34 for Material Sidebar Posts.
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails has been around longer: since 2014, against 2017 for Material Sidebar Posts.

Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails leads on 6 of 7 comparable lines.

Metric	Material Sidebar Posts	Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails
Popular rank	#42,777	#353
Active installs	10+	100K+
Downloads, last 30 days	30	18.7K
Rating	5.0(1)	4.8(215)
Support threads resolved	–	100%
Tested up to	4.8.34	7.1.4
Search multiplier	×0.00	×1.50
Last release	9 years ago	29 days ago
Requires PHP	5.2.4	5.6

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