Active installations300Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 9 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Recently version 4.2.2 as active, updated 20d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Let’s face it: WordPress’ default Recent Posts widget does the job as promised but it’s not very flexible. Things like excluding certain entries from the list or displaying recent posts by category can’t be done with the stock Recent Posts widget. Therefore, let me introduce Recently.
Recently is a WordPress widget that displays your site’s most recent posts. And it doesn’t stop there:
Main Features
Multiple Recently lists – That is, you can have several Recently lists on your blog – each with its own settings!
Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your recent posts! (see the FAQ section for more details.)
Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Recent Products? You can!
Taxonomy filtering – List recent posts filtered by categories, tags, or custom taxonomies!
Use your own layout! – Recently is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your recent posts list! (see customizing Recently’s HTML markup and How to style Recently for more.)
WordPress Multisite support – Each site on the network can have its own recent posts list!
Localization – Translate Recently to your own language (See translating Recently into your language for more info).
Polylang / WPML 3.2+ support – Show the translated version of your recent posts!
WordPress Popular Posts / WP-PostViews / Top 10 support: – Display the views count of your recent posts!
WP-PostRatings support. Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!
PSA: do not use the classic Recently widget with the new Widgets screen!
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This new Widgets screen expects WordPress blocks instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the Recently widget on your block-based Widgets screen please replace it with the Recently block.
Support the Project!
If you’d like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot!
Ko-fi | PayPal
Recently is now also on GitHub!
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
posts
recent
recently
widget
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.7 · PHP 7.2
Update activity12 Oct 202620d ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version4.2.1→4.2.2
WordPress compatibility7.0.4→7.1.3
Tracking & source
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