Latest Posts Widget is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Latest Posts Widget is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Mrinal Roy. With a rating of 4.5★ from 2 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Latest Posts Widget is a highly rated 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. 2 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 Mrinal Roy — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Latest Posts Widget works
Latest Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from your site with various options like excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature.
Features
Option to change ordering of posts.
Option to show post thumbnail & set dimension by width & height.
Set how many posts to show.
Option to show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
Option to show the post date.
Option to show the comment count.
Multiple widgets.
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).
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Frequently asked questions
What is Latest Posts Widget?
Latest Posts Widget is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 2 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 Mrinal Roy.