Category Posts Widget is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 79 reviews, as of Jul 15, 2026.
Category Posts Widget is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by ZephyrWest. With a rating of 4.5★ from 79 reviews.
AppRanks data: Category Posts Widget ranks #0 in Categories on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Category Posts Widget is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Posts category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 79 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by ZephyrWest — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (79) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Category Posts Widget works
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Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category.
Term and Category based Posts Widget A premium version of that free widget available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites.
Premium features
Auto-sizing Grid layout
Custom field support in the Template
Shortcode support in the Template
Image-Slider (or News-Ticker)
Asymmetrical list layouts
Full background images
Masonry responsive grid layout
More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …)
Custom Post Types, Events, Products support
All free features
E-Mail support
More examples on the demo pages
Features
Template to arrange the post details.
The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons.
Font-icon support.
‘Load more’ button / Ajax API
Item Title heading level buttons
Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp)
Shortcode (Easily change all Shortcode options in the customizer).
Date range filter
New date format: Time since plublished
Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private.
Multiple shortcodes at the same site or post.
Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another).
Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode.
Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”.
For editing shortcode adds a Customizer link to the admin-bar (“With one click to the Customizer”).
Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit).
Fluid images (max-width in %).
One thumb dimension can be left empty.
Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail.
Set a default thumbnail.
Hide widget text or text, if there is no post.
Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail.
Option exclude current post.
Option show post author, comment’s count, post date.
Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes
Admin UI: Buttons to easy add post details placeholder.
Multi sites support.
Documentation
Full documentation
Shortcode: Use [catposts] in the content and edit in the customizer
Formatting date and time: See Formatting Date and Time
Contribute While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at
Github (If possible with a pull request).
Category rankings
As of Jul 15, 2026- Categories#0of 58Top 1%
- Category#0of 76Top 1%
- Posts#0of 240Top 1%
- Recent posts#0of 25Top 1%
- Block#10of 593Top 2%
See 90-day rank history for each category
Track daily rank changes, category shifts, and position volatility.
Competitors & alternatives
Category Posts Widget doesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked posts apps on WordPress:
Where Category Posts Widget stands in the Posts category
Category Posts Widget ranks #0 of 240 apps in the Posts category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Category Posts Widget?
Category Posts Widget is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 79 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Posts category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by ZephyrWest.
Who uses Category Posts Widget?
Currently around 40,000 active stores have installed Category Posts Widget. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Posts category on WordPress.