Recent & Featured Posts Widget WordPress Plugin
Display recent posts or manually selected posts with thumbnail images. Show the excerpt directly on the page or as a dropdown.
Recent & Featured Posts Widget adds a list of recent posts or posts of your choosing with thumbnail images, post titles, dates, times, and excerpts.
Features:
- Excerpt Length. Change the number of words in the post excerpt.
- Excerpt Display. Show the excerpt as a dropdown when someone hovers over a section or display the excerpt directly on the page.
- CSS Modification. Modify certain CSS values including image width, text position, and border.
- Featured Posts. Don't want to show recent posts? Enter a list of post IDs. The number of posts shown will depend on the total number of IDs.
- Thumbnail Images. Choose to show featured image, or the oldest image attached to a post is shown by default.
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Usage of Recent & Featured Posts Widget over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 27 to 20 — down 7 (-25.9%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 20 | -1 |
| June 2024 | 21 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 23 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 23 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 23 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 23 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 24 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 24 | +1 |
| November 2023 | 23 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 23 | -1 |
| September 2023 | 24 | +1 |
| August 2023 | 23 | -3 |
| July 2023 | 26 | -1 |
| June 2023 | 27 | — |
Themes used with Recent & Featured Posts Widget
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Mts_socialme |
| 3 | Avada |
| 4 | Divi |
| 5 | Divi-child |
| 6 | Hueman |
| 7 | Cafe-pro |
| 8 | Twentysixteen-child |
| 9 | Twentysixteen |
| 10 | Whattech |
| 11 | Technologic |
| 12 | Modernbloggerpro |
| 13 | Avada-child-theme |
| 14 | Mts_best |
| 15 | Porto |
| 16 | Twentythirteen |
| 17 | Deadline |
| 18 | Accesspress-parallax |
| 19 | Multivarka |
| 20 | Davidandgoliath |
Sites running Recent & Featured Posts Widget
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