Better Recent Posts Widgets Pro
Better Recent Post Widget Pro is an affordable premium plugin from well-regarded WordPress developer Pippin Williamson, the creator of Easy Digital Downloads.
When using this widget on your website, you can now choose to display additional information about your posts in the sidebar. This includes displaying the post author, publication date, comment count, and the post excerpt.
With Better Recent Posts Widget Pro you can also choose the number of posts to display, as well as offsetting them to skip the latest posts that are also shown on your homepage. Thumbnails, using a custom display size, can be displayed for each post, and you can also filter the content by post type, category, and tag.
For a small price Better Recent Posts Widget Pro can dramatically increase the ways you can display your content in the sidebar and other widget areas of your website.
Recent Posts Widget Extended
This popular free plugin with over 170,000 downloads and a 4.8 out of 5 star adds another recent posts widget to your site with a more powerful set of controls for displaying content in your sidebar and other widget areas. The list of recent posts can also be displayed in your posts and pages using the included shortcode.
The new controls that are added to the recent posts widget with this plugin allow you to choose which taxonomies to source the posts from; whether to show post thumbnails, and if so which size; which post types to include; whether to show a post excerpt or not, and if so of what length; and also whether to display a date or the relative age of the post.
Other features of the Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin that are not often seen elsewhere include the ability to turn the widget title into a link and add HTML or text before and after the list of recent posts. There is also a field on the widget for adding custom CSS to alter its appearance.
The settings and controls of this widget make it a very flexible choice that should allow you to build the exact recent posts list you need for your WordPress website.
Genesis Featured Widget Amplified
If you are using the popular Genesis Framework from StudioPress, then this free plugin allows you to upgrade the standard featured posts widget that comes with this theme framework.
The added features of the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin and the widget it adds to your site allows you to display content from custom post types, custom taxonomies, and flexible options for displaying the post content or excerpt. You can also display the post author’s gravatar on the sidebar or homepage widget areas when using this plugin.
Like the Genesis Framework itself, this widget includes multiple hooks and filters for developers who want to extend its functionality further.
Recent Global Posts Widget
If you are running a WordPress Multisite or BuddyPress network then our Recent Global Posts Widget plugin will let you display the latest posts from the sites in your network in the sidebar and other widget areas of your blog.
Through the widget settings you can decide which blogs to display the most recent posts from. This is in addition to also being able to choose whether to display the post title, content, or both in the list. Other controls allow you to determine the title and content lengths, whether to show avatars or not, and which post types to use as the content source.
If you want to promote the latest content from your network in one place, then Recent Global Posts Widget is one option that allows you to do so with ease.
Advanced Random Posts Widget
Advanced Random Posts Widget is another free plugin for displaying posts in the sidebar, as well as other areas of your website using the included shortcode. However, instead of showing the latest posts, it has the ability to list random posts instead.
With this plugin you do get some control over which posts are randomly selected to be included in the list. These settings allow you to customize the widget content in much the same way as you can with the Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin covered earlier. This includes support for custom post types, custom taxonomies, displaying thumbnails, and including post excerpts.
Now with this plugin installed on your site, each time a visitor arrives, or loads a new page on your website, they will see a random list of posts in the sidebar, helping them to discover more of your content.
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