Get Latest Post for WordPress

4.0(2 reviews)70 installs

By Paul Schreiber

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Listing audit: 43/100

Get Latest Post is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Paul Schreiber. With a rating of 4.0★ from 2 reviews.

Get Latest Post is a WordPress app, with a 4.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.

AppRanks verdict

Generated from marketplace data as of Sep 11, 2026

Get Latest Post is a WordPress app. It holds a 4.0★ average from 2 reviews on WordPress.

Pros

No standout positives in the measured data.

Cons

−Only 2 reviews — the average can still move with a few new ratings

How Get Latest Post works

This plugin adds the ability to put a shortcode tag in any static page or post and have it display an excerpt from your latest blog post.

There are no settings or options.

It generates markup like this, which you can style as desired:

<div class='latest-post'> <p class='title'><a href='http://www.mysite.ca/blog/post'>Look ma, no hands!</a></p> <p class='excerpt'>Today I rode a bicycle …<a href="http://www.mysite.ca/blog/post">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div>

Standardized capabilities

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Ratings and reviews

4.0

2 reviews on WordPress

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About Get Latest Post on the WordPress Plugin Directory

Get Latest Post is one of the apps AppRanks tracks on the WordPress Plugin Directory. We refresh public marketplace data — pricing, rating, review count, category position, featured-section memberships — within the per-marketplace freshness targets published on our methodology page, and we publish the snapshot here exactly as it appears on the source marketplace. There is no proprietary score on this page; everything you see is mirrored from the live listing at our last crawl. If you are evaluating Get Latest Post against alternatives, the independent listing audit scores it against the same rubric we apply to every app on the platform — listing completeness, rating health, review velocity, merchandising, and ranking consistency. The audit also surfaces a prioritized recommendation list, so a developer can see exactly which fixes would move the score most. For market context, browse the full WordPress app index to see how this app's metrics compare against others on the same marketplace.

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Get Latest Post is a WordPress app by Paul Schreiber. It holds a 4.0-star average from 2 reviews on WordPress.

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About Get Latest Post on the WordPress Plugin Directory

Get Latest Post is one of the apps AppRanks tracks on the WordPress Plugin Directory. We refresh public marketplace data — pricing, rating, review count, category position, featured-section memberships — within the per-marketplace freshness targets published on our methodology page, and we publish the snapshot here exactly as it appears on the source marketplace. There is no proprietary score on this page; everything you see is mirrored from the live listing at our last crawl. If you are evaluating Get Latest Post against alternatives, the independent listing audit scores it against the same rubric we apply to every app on the platform — listing completeness, rating health, review velocity, merchandising, and ranking consistency. The audit also surfaces a prioritized recommendation list, so a developer can see exactly which fixes would move the score most. For market context, browse the full WordPress app index to see how this app's metrics compare against others on the same marketplace.

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