Best post widget plugins for WordPress
The most popular post widget plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Social LikeBox & Feed leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of AK Featured Post Widget (400+) and Vi Random Post Widget (100+). All 15 plugins tagged “Post Widget” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 post widget plugins
- 1.
Social LikeBox & FeedThe most installed post widget plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 47 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
AK Featured Post Widget400+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 3.
Vi Random Post Widget100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 4.
Post Snippet100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 5.
WP Post Widget100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 6.
Unicode Character Keyboard40+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 7.
Recent Post Scroll Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 8.
Recent Related Post And Page10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Category Wise Posts with Thumbnails10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 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 “Post Widget”
Social LikeBox & Feed
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,777by Weblizar - WordPress Themes & Plugin1 month ago
Display your FaceBook Feed and Like box on your website with this outstanding plugin. It is completely customizable, responsive and the code is search …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.3(47)
- Downloads
- 73/day
AK Featured Post Widget
Up in the last 7 days:32#9,827by kaser10 years ago
A widget that you can use to display your blog posts, custom post types, or woocommerce products!
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Vi Random Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:19#13,655by Team Startbit7 years ago
Vi Random Posts Widget plugin allows us to create a custom random or category posts list as a widget. It gives you a list of random posts via shortcod …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Snippet
Down in the last 7 days:8#13,797by weiluri10 years ago
A colourful display of your posts as a widget, with many options for content and colours change.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:121#14,334by WP-EXPERTS.IN3 years ago
Posts widget! Add list of recent posts from your CUSTOM POST TYPE.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Unicode Character Keyboard
Up in the last 7 days:84#21,641by Terry O'Brien (HoosierDragon)11 years ago
Admin widget on the Write Post or Write Page forms for inserting HTML encodings of Unicode characters into the edit window.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Post Scroll Widget
#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
Recent Related Post And Page
#30,684by Weblizar - WordPress Themes & Plugin1 month ago
Show Recent Related Posts Pages Using Widget & Shortcode
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Wise Posts with Thumbnails
#34,597by usman03042 years ago
Small and fast plugin to display posts category wise in the sidebar, a list of linked titles and thumbnails of posts category wise
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
LATEST-POST-NEW
#44,102by 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
Fancy Latest Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:7,045#44,500by Juan_Mojica11 years ago
Display the latest post with Animated effects in your sidebar or content, select an animation effect for the Thumbnail, Title, Content and Read More.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Recent Post Widget
#45,909by Jobayer Hossain10 years ago
Simple Post Widget
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hannan Shakib Dynamic Post Widget for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:12,297#56,744by hannanshakib5 months ago
A highly customizable, advanced dynamic post widget for the Elementor page builder.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random AND Popular Post
Down in the last 7 days:8,383#62,058by themorshed6 years ago
This is a Lightweight WordPress plugin to Display Random posts, popular posts etc.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CPW Custom Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:9,512#70,368by Mehran Khan9 years ago
CPW-Custom Post Widget adds custom widget to widget area where you can customize posts shown to sidebar
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day