Flexible Recent Posts is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 8 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Flexible Recent Posts is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Paul Annekov. With a rating of 5.0★ from 8 reviews.
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Flexible Recent Posts is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 8 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 (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Paul Annekov — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (8) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Flexible Recent Posts works
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Looking for maintainer. Write me to [email protected] Flexible Recent Posts (FRP) plugin gives you possibility to add widget to your blog with recent posts using user-defined template.
The main features are:
Template for each post in widget. You can write your HTML-template or overwrite default in widget form.
Shortcodes support in template. You can use built-in shortcodes to insert info related to current post in widget: title, featured image, excerpt, date, permalink, author, comments.
Restrict terms from which you want to display posts. Display posts from all terms or from selected only.
Number of posts to display. Set number of latest posts that will be displayed in widget.
All posts links. Select option to display link near the title or/and after all posts that will open selected posts category page. Set link title or custom link URL.
Useful links:
Template shortcodes
Feature requests
Bugs
Donate (Flattr)
Translators:
Russian (ru) – Paul Annekov
Licenses
Uses FatCow Icon Set licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Shortcodes Plugin template system supports 5 shortcodes related to current widget post, that you can use in your template:
Title [frp_title]
Displays post title.
Example: <h4>[frp_title]</h4>
Excerpt [frp_excerpt length=””]
Displays post excerpt using get_the_excerpt function.
You can specify excerpt length using length attribute. If not specified – default WordPress excerpt length used.
Example: <div class="excerpt">[frp_excerpt]</div>, [frp_excerpt length="15"]
Date [frp_date format=”F j, Y” time_since=”0″]
Displays post date. You can add format shortcode parameter to change date format. Read about format value here.
Add time_since parameter with 1 as value to display amount of elapsed time: 30 seconds ago, 5 minutes ago, 12 hours ago, 3 Jun.
Example: <div class="date">[frp_date format="Y/m/d g:i:s A"]</div>, <div class="elapsed">[frp_date time_since="1"]</div>
Link [frp_link]
Displays post permalink.
Example: <a href="[frp_link]">read more</a>
Featured image [frp_thumbnail size=”32×32″]
Displays featured post image. Add size shortcode parameter to change image size. You can define size using WIDTHxHEIGHT as value or size name (built-in or defined in theme).
Examples: [frp_thumbnail], [frp_thumbnail size="thumbnail"], [frp_thumbnail size="128x128"], [frp_thumbnail size="full"]
Author [frp_author link=”1″]
Displays name of the post’s author. Set link parameter to 0 if you want to disable link (author’s site) from author name.
Examples: [frp_author], [frp_author link="1"], [frp_author link="0"]
Comments [frp_comments no_text=”1″]
Displays the number of comments. Set no_text parameter to 1 if you want to disable comment text (just “23” instead of “23 Comments”).
Examples: [frp_comments], [frp_comments no_text="1"], [frp_comments no_text="0"]
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What is Flexible Recent Posts?
Flexible Recent Posts is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 8 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Paul Annekov.