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Recent Posts by Category Widget
v1.3Not updated in over a year
Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.
by Ross Cornell
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- Rank
- #3,458 24h -4 · 7d -19
- Est. installs
- 4,619 High confidence
- Total downloads
- 35K all time
- Rating
- 4.7 ★ 12 reviews
- Official installs
- 4,000+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 0 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- — of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 4.2.39 compatibility
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Maintenance & compatibility
8.9 years ago
Last release
- Version
- 1.3
- Requires WP
- 3.0.1
- Requires PHP
- —
- On WP.org since
- 2014
About Recent Posts by Category Widget
Recent Posts by Category Widget is a WordPress plugin by Ross Cornell, first published on WordPress.org in 2014. It has 4,000+ active installations and 34,989 downloads in total, and ranks #3,458 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it slipped 19 places. Users rate it 4.7 out of 5 across 12 reviews. Version 1.3 was released 8.9 years ago; WordPress.org flags plugins that have not been updated in over a year. It is tested up to WordPress 4.2.39 and requires WordPress 3.0.1 or later. No support threads were opened in the last two months. It is listed under categories, category, recent posts, sidebar and widget. Plugins with a similar focus include Collapsing Categories, List Custom Taxonomy Widget and Categorized Tag Cloud.
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