Ultimate Posts Widget
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.
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Overview
Compatibility
Installation instructions
Customer support & learning resources
Changelog
Main benefits
Filter by categories
Display featured image
Customizable display options
Supports custom post types
Advanced customization hooks
About this plugin
Author: cl272
Categories: Widgets and Sidebars
Version: 2.3.2
Last updated: 17-07-2024
WordPress version: 3.5
Tested up to: 6.6
PHP version required: false
Languages: Français, Nederlands
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Learning resources: View resources
Overview
The Ultimate Posts Widget plugin for WordPress offers a robust solution for displaying posts, custom post types, or sticky posts in widget areas with comprehensive customization options. Ideal for both average users and developers, this plugin allows users to filter posts by categories, tags, and custom post types, and offers myriad display options such as showing titles, author links, comment counts, and featured images at different sizes. With advanced customization possibilities through hooks, filters, and custom templates, users can control the appearance and behavior of the post listings extensively. Note that to use this classic widget on the latest version of WordPress, the Classic Widgets plugin is required. Ultimate Posts Widget is currently being evaluated for enhancements post-ownership change, with user feedback welcomed on the Support Forum.
Flexible Filtering Options
- Filter posts by categories, tags, custom post types, or sticky posts
- Filter by current category or tag
- Exclude current post from the list
Customizable Display Settings
- Select number of posts to display
- Display title, publish date/time, author, comment count, excerpt or full content
- Display featured image at any size
Advanced Customization
- Add text or HTML before and after posts list
- Add CSS class to widget
- Order posts by date, title, number of comments, random, or a custom field
Developer-Friendly Features
- Hooks and filters for advanced customization
- Custom templates for unique display options
- Comprehensive documentation available in the FAQ tab
Rating and reviews
ChrisL
28 Nov, 2022
This plugin recently became a spam address harvester, sending automated emails to registered users asking them to ‘confirm their address’. Don’t install.
deadweasel
22 May, 2020
Really love this widget, looks great on my sidebar, once it’s configured.
However, that configuration is a bit of a gotcha, as the visibility settings keep reverting to defaults with everything enabled (I only need the titles visible), so any time I change another tab’s settings, I also have to go to the Visibility tab and turn the default stuff back off again as well. It’s like the plugin isn’t reading the current visibility settings, and simply shows its own default selections whenever it loads its view, so that’s what gets submitted on save if you don’t go back in and set them right again.
Bobthearch
25 Apr, 2018
This didn’t work at all for me. The Display, Filter, and Order tabs were not clickable, leaving no way to tell it which post(s) to use.
Bannerman
06 Feb, 2018
This is an awesome plugin. It causes issues if you are using the widget on a Divi Sidebar module, it puts part of the sidebar code into the wp-admin dashboard on any pages with that module and widget on it. Unfortunately, I can’t change themes, so I couldn’t use, but overall this is a great plugin with lots of options.
Joona Nuutinen
10 Apr, 2017
Installed to create a simple list of custom post type posts, and BOOM, worked just as I hoped.
