Best latest post plugins for WordPress
The most popular latest post plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. BlogLentor leads with 4K+ active installs, ahead of PE Recent Posts (2K+) and Flex Guten (300+). All 15 plugins tagged “latest post” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 latest post plugins
- 1.
BlogLentorThe most installed latest post plugin, with 4K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
PE Recent Posts2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 11 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 3.
Flex Guten300+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.
ETH Redirect to Latest Post100+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Footer Widget Bundle100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 6.
Latest Posts With Thumbnails and Ads20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 7.
JP Latest Posts Shortcode20+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 8.
Recent Post Scroll Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 9.
Lamboz Latest Post Widget10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 10.
LATEST-POST-NEW10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
All 15 plugins tagged “latest post”
BlogLentor
Down in the last 7 days:8#3,329by Pinku Chanda9 months ago
Design and modify your blog with creative layouts. You can easily design your blog posts with slider, Carousel and different skins with pagination.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 19/day
PE Recent Posts
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,002by DJ-Extensions.com5 years ago
The simple plugin that allows you to display image slides with title, description and read more linked to posts from selected category.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Flex Guten
Down in the last 7 days:34#10,605by Drag WP1 year ago
Flex Guten is a multipurpose block editor plugin with Pinterest, post grid, and testimonial blocks.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
ETH Redirect to Latest Post
Up in the last 7 days:139#13,936by Erick Hitter9 months ago
Redirect a chosen slug, "latest" by default, to, well, the most-recently-published post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Footer Widget Bundle
Up in the last 7 days:9#14,798by Kamrul Hasan5 months ago
Footer widget bundle includes company information, latest post, contact address and opening hours.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Latest Posts With Thumbnails and Ads
Up in the last 7 days:3#25,852by Eduard Milushi10 years ago
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except that posts are with thumbnails and you can show ads between them, show post date and comments count.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
JP Latest Posts Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:107#28,091by Skjoy11 years ago
This is simple plugin for listing latest posts from your blog.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 2.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Post Scroll Widget
Up in the last 7 days:884#30,151by quazisazzad5 years ago
Recent Post Scroll Widget is very customizable post widget . There are a lot's of option to display your recent post
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Lamboz Latest Post Widget
#32,917by Lamboz6 years ago
Lamboz Latest Post Widget is a simple plugin use to display all the latest types of posts in the sidebar using widgets.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
LATEST-POST-NEW
#40,651by Uvais13 years ago
Using Recent post widget You can select the post type from available custom post type or post and display it in side bar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Latest Posts MultiSite Widget
Up in the last 7 days:3,024#40,952by wp4u.net13 years ago
Display latest posts from other site in network.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CTicker
#42,955by Sayfur Rahman11 years ago
CTicker is an awesome, super lightweight plugin for your WordPress website which allow you to show your Post or News as a Ticker.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Blog Posts
#60,751by Laxman Prajapati5 years ago
WP Blog Posts plugin ability to display blog posts with title, short description, date, etc... to our website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Redirect to Category Latest Post
#63,748by emma23347 years ago
Redirect category menu item to the latest post in it.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day