Flexible Posts Widget
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
The facts
- Rating
- 4.6★ from 57
- Active installs
- 7k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 28 Nov 2017
- Added
- Apr 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.2
- Tested up to
- WP 4.7.35
- Downloads
- 215,969
Our analysis
AI-assistedFlexible Posts Widget is a WordPress plugin that enhances the default Recent Posts widget by allowing users to display a selection of posts from various post types and taxonomies. It offers extensive customization options, enabling advanced users to control how posts are displayed, including the ability to set titles, select post types, and order posts in different ways.
This plugin is suitable for users who want more flexibility in displaying posts on their site, particularly those who are familiar with custom templates and want to tailor the output to fit their design needs. It supports multi-language setups with WPML and PolyLang.
Best for: This plugin suits advanced WordPress users looking to customize post displays on their site.
What it does well
- ✓Highly customizable widget options
- ✓Supports multiple post types and taxonomies
- ✓Allows custom templates for output
- ✓Multi-language support with WPML and PolyLang
- ✓Option to display featured images
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in November 2017
- •Not tested with multi-language plugins other than WPML and PolyLang
- •Limited information on future updates and features
Verdict
Flexible Posts Widget provides a robust alternative to the default widget, but its age and limited testing with other plugins may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
DaveE's own description of Flexible Posts Widget, lightly tidied.
The default Recent Posts widget is exceptionally basic. I always find myself in need of a way to easily display a selection of posts from any combination post type or taxonomy. Hence, Flexible Posts Widget.
Flexible Posts Widget (FPW) is more than just a simple alternative to the default Recent Posts widget. With many per-instance options it is highly customizable and allows advanced users to display the resulting posts virtually any way imaginable.
Features & options
- Customizable widget title
- Get posts by post type(s) and/or taxonomy & term(s) or directly by a list of post IDs.
- Control the number of posts displayed and the number of posts to offset.
- Option to display the post feature image.
- Select the post feature image size to display from existing image sizes: thumbnail, medium, large, post-thumbnail or any size defined by the current theme.
- Order posts by: date, modified date, ID, title, menu order, random, Post ID Order; and sort posts: ascending or descending.
- Each widget’s output can be customized by user-defined templates added to the current theme folder.
- Multi Language support. Compatible with WPML and PolyLang for sure. Not tested with other multi-language plugins, but it should work.
Plugin Hooks
Flexible posts widget currently has two public hooks:
- Filter:
dpe_fpw_argsallows filtering the query vars before submitting the widget posts query. - Filter:
dpe_fpw_template_{$template_name}filters the template file path used to display the widget output.
Future updates & feature requests list
- Use search box instead of ID text field for post id’s
- Shortcode functionality.
- Get posts by Author.
- Filter out the post currently being viewed.
- Get posts from the same archive (term/post type/etc).
- Limit results by a time period.