Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails for WordPress Plugin Directory
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is a WordPress app, with a 4.8 average rating from 212 reviews, as of July 8, 2026.
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Kybernetik Services. With a rating of 4.8★ from 212 reviews.
AppRanks data: Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails ranks #0 in Featured image on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is a category-leading WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Sidebar category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 212 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 (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Kybernetik Services — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails works
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List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
Although the plugin is built only for widget areas users reported that it works in Elementor and works in Oxygen. Whether it runs in other page builders is unknown. Please let me know in which page builder you were able to use the plugin successfully.
The plugin does not collect any personal data, so it is ready for EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.
Lightweight, simple and effective No huge widget with hundreds of options. This plugin is based on the well-known WordPress default widget ‘Recent Posts’ and extended to display more information about the posts like e.g. thumbnails, excerpts and assigned categories. And it provides more options to build custom-taylored posts lists.
The thumbnails will be built from the featured image of a post or of the first image in the post content. If there is neither a featured image nor a content image then you can define a default thumbnail.
You can set the width and height of the thumbnails in the list. The thumbnails appear left-aligned to the post titles in left-to-right languages. In right-to-left languages they appear right-aligned.
Custom Post Type If you want to list custom post types with the featured image, please check out our plugin Ultimate Post List Pro.
Demo You want to test Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails before installing on your site? Try it out on your individual and free playground site and click here.
What users wrote
“This plugin performs a simple task but one that I find to be invaluable.” reviews by funkster on July 1, 2025
“I just want to say thank you for developing such a good plugin.” in the reviews by modelaid on July 3, 2024
“Excellent plugin!” in the reviews by mystnick on April 18, 2023
“… one of the dynamic and smart, yet admin and user optimized widget plugins …” in How to Add Widgets and Start Using Them in WordPress Website? by SKT Posts Themes on September 3, 2020
“بهترین افزونه های نمایش آخرین نوشته ها در وردپرس” in ابزارک آخرین نوشته وردپرس by Ghodsi on December 16, 2019
“Another good all around widget, suitable for most projects” in Free WordPress recent posts widget – Which one is the best? on December 3, 2019
“In just a few clicks, your website will look considerably more established and professional.” in 3 Best WordPress Thumbnail Plugins to Manage Images Perfectly by HubSpot Staff on October 29, 2019
The best of the recent posts widgets in the reviews by noddemix on June 13, 2019
Number 8 in 14 Plugins para Otimizar seu Site by Ideias Dig on November 8, 2018
“Truly EXCELLENT Plugin!” in the reviews by dnuttal on October 11, 2018
“Easier than making an egg, seriously.” in the reviews by djackofall on October 2, 2017
“This plugin is INCREDIBLE” in the reviews by lucio7 on August 25, 2017
Widgets Users Will Love in 10 Ultra-Useful Free WordPress Widget Plugins by Eric Karkovack on June 16, 2017
listed in 20 WordPress Plugins that Steals Attention to Engage Visitors of Your Site by WP Team Support on March 6, 2017
Number 1 in 8 essential WordPress widgets to supercharge your website by Rafay Ansari on January 31, 2017
“Excellent (after trying a few)!” in the reviews by giorgissimo on January 6, 2017
What users filmed Some users published video tutorials on YouTube:
Class 09 – Working with Plugins (Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails) by WordPress Learning Bangladesh on March 7, 2017
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails Setup Tutorial – WordPress Lesson and Tip by Making a Website on April 17, 2016
Add Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnail – WordPress by eMediaCoach on August 15, 2015
Options you can set
Title of the widget
Number of listed posts
Open post links in new windows
Different options for post order and sorting
Hide the current post in list
Show only sticky posts
Hide sticky posts
Keep sticky posts on top of the list if not hidden
Hide post title
Maximum length of post title
Show post author name
Label for the author names
Show post categories
Show post category names as links to their archives
Label for categories
Show post date
Show post excerpt
Show number of comments
Excerpt length
Signs after excerpt
Ignore post excerpt field as excerpt source (builds excerpts only from the post content)
Ignore post content as excerpt source (builds excerpts only from the excerpt fields)
Show posts of selected categories (or of all categories)
Show post thumbnail (featured image)
Registered thumbnail dimensions
Thumbnail width in px
Thumbnail height in px
Keep the aspect ratio of thumbnails
Try to take the first post image as thumbnail
Only use the first post image as thumbnail
Use default thumbnail if no thumbnail is available
Always use default thumbnail
Default thumbnail URL
Alternative text of the default thumbnail
Omit all alternative texts of the thumbnails for a better accessibility
Print slugs of post categories in class attribute of LI elements
Print inline CSS instead of creating a CSS file
No CSS generation at all
Useful hints for developers: Supported Hooks The plugin considers the output of actions hooked on:
rpwwt_widget_posts_args
passed argument: the query arguments as an array
expected return value: an array of query arguments
widget_title
passed arguments:
the widget title as a string
the widget settings as an array
the widget base ID as a string
expected return value: a string
rpwwt_excerpt_length
passed argument: the maximum number of characters for the post excerpt as an integer
expected return value: an integer
rpwwt_excerpt_more
passed argument: the string to append after the post excerpt
expected return value: a string
rpwwt_the_excerpt
passed arguments:
the content of the post excerpt field as a string
the post object
expected return value: a string
the_excerpt
passed argument: the post excerpt as a string
expected return value: a string
rpwwt_categories
passed argument: the category list of each post as a string
expected return value: a string
rpwwt_list_cats
passed arguments:
the category name as a string
the category as an array
expected return value: a string
Useful hints for developers: Available CSS Selectors To design the list and its items, you can use these CSS selectors:
.rpwwt-widget: the element which contains the post list .rpwwt-widget ul: the list which contains the list items .rpwwt-widget ul li: the list item in the list .rpwwt-widget ul li.rpwwt-sticky: the list item of a sticky post .rpwwt-widget ul li a: link in the list .rpwwt-widget ul li a img: linked image .rpwwt-widget ul li a span.rpwwt-post-title: the post title .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-author: the post author .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-categories: the post category list .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-date: the post date .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-excerpt: the post excerpt .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-excerpt .rpwwt-post-excerpt-more: the "more" text following the excerpt. .rpwwt-widget ul li div.rpwwt-post-comments-number: the number of comments
Languages The user interface is available in several languages.
Starting from version 7.1.0 the handling for translations are moved to translate.wordpress.org.
Please help to translate into more languages, or you can re-work on the current translations if you think it’s needed.
If you have done your translation, please leave a comment in the plugin’s support forum. I’ll take care of the review and approval.
Category rankings
As of Jul 8, 2026- Featured image#0of 42Top 1%
- Recent posts#0of 23Top 1%
- Sidebar#0of 118Top 1%
- Thumbnails#0of 22Top 1%
- Widget#7of 701Top 1%
- _browse_popular#341of 508Top 68%
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Keyword rankings
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- Rank #801
Competitors & alternatives
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Where Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails stands in the Sidebar category
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails ranks #0 of 118 apps in the Sidebar category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails?
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 212 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Sidebar 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 Kybernetik Services.
Who uses Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails?
Currently around 100,000 active stores have installed Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails. Its review base of 212 suggests adoption is concentrated in growth-stage and mid-market stores. It is part of the Sidebar category on WordPress.