Recently for WordPress Plugin Directory
Recently is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 9 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Recently is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Hector Cabrera. With a rating of 5.0★ from 9 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Recently 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. 9 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 Hector Cabrera — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (9) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Recently works
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Let’s face it: WordPress’ default Recent Posts widget does the job as promised but it’s not very flexible. Things like excluding certain entries from the list or displaying recent posts by category can’t be done with the stock Recent Posts widget. Therefore, let me introduce Recently.
Recently is a WordPress widget that displays your site’s most recent posts. And it doesn’t stop there:
Main Features
Multiple Recently lists – That is, you can have several Recently lists on your blog – each with its own settings!
Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your recent posts! (see the FAQ section for more details.)
Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Recent Products? You can!
Taxonomy filtering – List recent posts filtered by categories, tags, or custom taxonomies!
Use your own layout! – Recently is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your recent posts list! (see customizing Recently’s HTML markup and How to style Recently for more.)
WordPress Multisite support – Each site on the network can have its own recent posts list!
Localization – Translate Recently to your own language (See translating Recently into your language for more info).
Polylang/WPML 3.2+ support – Show the translated version of your recent posts!
WordPress Popular Posts / WP-PostViews / Top 10 support: – Display the views count of your recent posts!
WP-PostRatings support. Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!
PSA: do not use the classic Recently widget with the new Widgets screen! The classic Recently widget doesn’t work very well / at all with the new Widgets screen introduced with WordPress 5.8.
This new Widgets screen expects WordPress blocks instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the Recently widget on your block-based Widgets screen please replace it with the Recently block.
Support the Project! If you’d like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot!
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Recently is now also on GitHub!
Keyword rankings
Recently ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.faqRank #376
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Recently?
Recently is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 9 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 Hector Cabrera.