Flexible Posts Widget WordPress Plugin
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
The default Recent Posts widget is exceptionally basic. I always find myself in need of a way to easily display a selection of posts from any combination post type or taxonomy. Hence, Flexible Posts Widget.
Flexible Posts Widget (FPW) is more than just a simple alternative to the default Recent Posts widget. With many per-instance options it is highly customizable and allows advanced users to display the resulting posts virtually any way imaginable.
Features & options
- Customizable widget title
- Get posts by post type(s) and/or taxonomy & term(s) or directly by a list of post IDs.
- Control the number of posts displayed and the number of posts to offset.
- Option to display the post feature image.
- Select the post feature image size to display from existing image sizes: thumbnail, medium, large, post-thumbnail or an
categories
custom post types
custom taxonomies
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recent posts
tags
thumbnails
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Usage of Flexible Posts Widget over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 1 to 1 — up 0 (+0%).
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| July 2024 | 1 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 1 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 1 | +0 |
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| February 2024 | 1 | +0 |
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| December 2023 | 1 | +0 |
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| October 2023 | 1 | +0 |
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| August 2023 | 1 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 1 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 1 | — |
Sites running Flexible Posts Widget
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