Best recent posts plugins for WordPress
The most popular recent posts plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Category Posts Block (40K+) and VK Link Target Controller (30K+). All 104 plugins tagged “recent posts” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 recent posts plugins
- 1.
Recent Posts Widget With ThumbnailsThe most installed recent posts plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 215 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 2.
Category Posts Block40K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 79 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 3.
VK Link Target Controller30K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 3 days ago.
- 4.
Social LikeBox & Feed10K+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 47 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Ultimate Posts Widget10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 55 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 6.
ThemeZee Widget Bundle5K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 7.
Recent Posts by Category Widget4K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 12 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 8.
Custom Layouts3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 25 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.
PE Recent Posts2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 11 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 10.
TW Recent Posts Widget1K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 15 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
All 104 plugins tagged “recent posts”
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails
#353by Kybernetik Services1 month ago
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(215)
- Downloads
- 623/day
Category Posts Block
Down in the last 7 days:1#881by ZephyrWest21 days ago
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+
- Rating
- 4.5(79)
- Downloads
- 311/day
VK Link Target Controller
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,050by Vektor,Inc.3 days ago
Redirect your visitors to another page than the post content when they click on the post title.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 141/day
Social LikeBox & Feed
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,778by 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
- 76/day
Ultimate Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4#2,112by cl2722 years ago
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(55)
- Downloads
- 38/day
ThemeZee Widget Bundle
Down in the last 7 days:10#3,097by ThemeZee3 months ago
A collection of useful widgets, neatly bundled into a single plugin.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Recent Posts by Category Widget
Up in the last 7 days:7#3,444by Ross Cornell9 years ago
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 19/day
Custom Layouts
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,707by Code Amp10 months ago
Build a list or grid layout of any post type (posts, products, pages + more).
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 24/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
TW Recent Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:2#5,530by tweetysha9 years ago
A simple and flexible widget for WordPress which will show recent posts from selected category allowing increased customization to display recent post …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.4(15)
- Downloads
- 10/day
Custom Recent Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4#5,773by Prasanna SP9 years ago
A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Weaver Show Sliders
Down in the last 7 days:16#7,091by wpweaver6 months ago
Show Sliders partner to Show Posts plugin. Requires Show Post Plugin to work.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Widget Box Lite
Down in the last 7 days:7#7,210by Romik843 years ago
A toolbox of great widgets for your daily blogging. Display recent posts, social links, and much more. Designed for Theme4Press themes
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Recent Posts Plus
Down in the last 7 days:9#7,221by pjgalbraith9 years ago
An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget, allows display of thumbnails, post excerpt, author, comment count, and more.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.8(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Recent Posts Widget Plus
Up in the last 7 days:3#9,050by Johan van der Wijk3 years ago
This plugin allows you to display the most recent posts with an excerpt in a WordPress sidebar widget area.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Recent Posts
Down in the last 7 days:1#9,092by RobMarsh18 years ago
Displays a list of recent posts.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
New Recent Posts Select Categories By Thao Marky
Down in the last 7 days:88#9,202by thaomarky2 years ago
Display Recent Posts in your Website with images thumbnail of the Contents.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Enhanced Recent Posts
Up in the last 7 days:36#9,765by Vincent Mimoun-Prat12 years ago
Enhance the built-in "Recent Posts" widget.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget
Up in the last 7 days:24#10,899by rajros8 years ago
Display list of recent posts and latest posts or random posts using the [recentposts-sc] shortcode in any page or in sidebar widgets.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Posts per Cat
Down in the last 7 days:208#11,755by Aleksandar Urošević1 year ago
Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:43#11,765by darrinb10 years ago
A powerful and flexible recent posts widget for WordPress for displaying customized content lists. Supports all custom post types and taxonomies!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Latest Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:27#11,932by Mrinal Roy11 years ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Post Widget Thumbnail
Down in the last 7 days:68#13,823by fervillz10 years ago
Gives adaptable and highly organized recent posts. Show it through widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, post date.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts block
Down in the last 7 days:55#14,359by Brijesh Dhanani6 years ago
Gutenberg Recent Posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP LIST PAGES BY CUSTOM TAXONOMY
Up in the last 7 days:84#15,020by piccart8 years ago
Widget to lists posts of any active post-type, filtering by any term of any active custom taxonomy. display title, or thumb, date and excerpt too.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
GS Posts Grid
Down in the last 7 days:174#15,042by GS Plugins6 days ago
Show recent or category posts in a post grid, list or slider with popups, pagination and a live preview builder. No coding needed.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Ultimate Sticky Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4#16,477by Pieter Ferrreira8 years ago
This Widget works well to display sticky/posts or both.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
U More Recent Posts
Down in the last 7 days:9#16,841by Taehan Lee15 years ago
This plugin make it possible to navigate more recent posts without refreshing screen.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Recent Posts Extended
Up in the last 7 days:24#17,264by Vicente Garcia9 years ago
Este widget muestra los últimos artículos publicados agrupados por categorías.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super recent posts
Down in the last 7 days:82#17,671by hmayaktigranyan14 years ago
Widget that can display recent posts from multiple categories, taxonomies, terms custom post types.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Newstastic Post Slider
Up in the last 7 days:48#21,126by David Henry12 years ago
A quick way to display your recent posts on any page with a slider for paging.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.3(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Smart Recent Post
Down in the last 7 days:449#21,600by Sandeep Sharma7 years ago
Smart recent posts shows the recent posts from your wordpress blog
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts From Each Category
Up in the last 7 days:238#21,607by Mindstien Technologies12 years ago
Display Recent Posts From Each/Selected Category. Category Box View Plugin.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Categories Recent Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:218#23,286by The Medios12 years ago
This widget displays the recent posts on a category page for that category
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts by Tags
Up in the last 7 days:170#23,979by Prasanna SP14 years ago
This plugin creates a widget with a list of recent posts belonging to selected tags
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts Ultimate
Up in the last 7 days:105#24,154by Douglas "BearlyDoug" Hazard3 years ago
RPU is the ultimate recent posts plugin, even allowing HTML to be displayed. Quick, easy and efficient!
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Latest Posts by Author with content
Down in the last 7 days:93#25,174by OpenSource Technologies Inc.1 month ago
List an author's latest posts with a short preview of each post, using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Slider
Up in the last 7 days:364#25,638by aumsrini10 years ago
Post slider is a responsive carousel to slide recent posts with category selection and no.of posts. You can use the post slider in unlimited websites …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- 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
WP Recent Posts
Up in the last 7 days:88#26,545by Boopathi Rajan2 years ago
WP Recent Posts plugin will displays recent posts with date, excerpt and title in Posts, Pages, Widgets and custom post types.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Recent Posts Widget Unlimited
Down in the last 7 days:183#26,744by helpgeek11 years ago
A replacement for the WordPress Recent Posts widget that allows an unlimited number of posts to be displayed.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts by Category (RCP)
Down in the last 7 days:41#27,307by UPTIXA9 months ago
Display recent posts from any category as a modern, stylish widget on any page on your website.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
phpBB Topics Portal
Up in the last 7 days:462#27,366by macmiller14 years ago
A widget that accesses your phpBB forum and displays recent posts on your Wordpress page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Display Last Posts on Menu Item
#27,715by Sergio Sebastiani1 year ago
A plugin to dynamically display the latest posts in a specific menu item.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dashboard
#27,777by Ricardo Gonzalez18 years ago
Widget for the WordPress 2.7+ dashboard to display the latest posts.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
bdwebteam recent post tabs widget
Down in the last 7 days:139#28,372by Mahabub Hasan11 years ago
bdwebteam recent post tabs widget that shows the post tabs of your site with excerpt limit.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts
Down in the last 7 days:737#29,660by aumsrini10 years ago
Recent posts vertical ticker.Show your recent post in vertical ticker
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Related Post And Page
#30,581by Weblizar - WordPress Themes & Plugin1 month ago
Show Recent Related Posts Pages Using Widget & Shortcode
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts By Taxonomy Widget
#31,930by Pippin Williamson13 years ago
Display a list of taxonomy terms with recent posts in those terms in a simple to use widget
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Advanced Posts
Down in the last 7 days:199#32,949by Tarun Yaduvanshi7 years ago
Add Ajax in widgets Filter Taxonomy and Terms. More easily and dynamic Post by Filter. Adds a widget that can display recent posts and other posts fro …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day