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Custom Recent Posts Widget
1K+ installs · #5,773 most popular
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Recent Posts by Category Widget
by Ross Cornell
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rank
- #3,444
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Updated
- 9 years ago
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Post Tags and Categories for Pages
by curtismchale
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rank
- #1,358
- Rating
- 4.8(23)
- Updated
- 10 months ago
Sharescategoriestags
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Media Library Categories
by jeffrey-wp
Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rank
- #1,247
- Rating
- 4.2(52)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
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Essential Widgets
by Catch Themes
Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rank
- #1,810
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Updated
- 4 months ago
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Flexible Posts Widget
by DaveE
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rank
- #2,511
- Rating
- 4.7(56)
- Updated
- 9 years ago
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Require Post Category
by Josh Hartman
Require users to choose a post category before updating or publishing a post.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rank
- #6,872
- Rating
- 4.9(11)
- Updated
- 2 years ago
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WP Required Taxonomies
by Jose Vega
Force users to select a taxonomy term when publishing posts. For example, make category or tags required
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rank
- #5,851
- Rating
- 4.1(8)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
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TW Recent Posts Widget
by tweetysha
A simple and flexible widget for WordPress which will show recent posts from selected category allowing increased customization to display recent post …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rank
- #5,530
- Rating
- 4.4(15)
- Updated
- 9 years ago
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Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails
by Kybernetik Services
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rank
- #353
- Rating
- 4.8(215)
- Updated
- 29 days ago
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List category posts
by Fernando Briano
Very customizable plugin to list posts by category (or tag, author and more) in a post, page or widget. Uses the [catlist] shortcode to select posts.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rank
- #547
- Rating
- 4.7(254)
- Updated
- 4 months ago
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Category Posts Block
by ZephyrWest
Shows a list of recent posts from a category - with thumbnails, excerpt and a load more button. For posts, pages and the Site Editor.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rank
- #881
- Rating
- 4.5(79)
- Updated
- 20 days ago
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FV Top Level Categories
by FolioVision
This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rank
- #1,305
- Rating
- 4.4(23)
- Updated
- 1 year ago
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