by DaveE 4.6 (57 reviews)

Flexible Posts Widget

Name: Flexible Posts Widget
Rating: 4.6 (57 reviews)
Author: DaveE

An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!

Flexible Posts Widget ranks #2,518 among WordPress.org plugins with 7,000+ active installations, is #443 of 8,554 in the Customization category, a 4.6/5 rating from 57 reviews, and was last updated Nov 28, 2017. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.7.35 (Current: 7.1)

v3.5.0 Current Version v3.5.0

Updated 8 years ago Last Update on 28 Nov, 2017

Refreshed 8 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#443 of 8,554 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads +5.6% this week No update in over a year

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#2,518

+3 this week

Active Installs

7K+

-12.1%

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Downloads

216.3K

+17 today

Support Resolved

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Rating

92%

Review 4.6 out of 5

4.6 (57 reviews)

Next Milestone 8K

Total Progress 93%

7K+ 8K+

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57 reviews

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.5.0
Last Updated: Nov 28, 2017
Requires WP: 3.2+
Tested Up To: 4.7.35
PHP Version: N/A
Author: DaveE

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 57
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and theme developers who need more control over sidebar post listings than the default Recent Posts widget offers. It solves the problem by letting users query posts by post type, taxonomy, term, or ID and customize how they're displayed via per-instance options and theme templates.

Get posts by post type and taxonomy
Get posts by post ID list
Control number of posts and offset
Display post feature image
Select feature image size
Order and sort posts
User-defined widget templates
WPML and PolyLang support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Flexible Posts Widget

The third option (tab) available for getting posts is directly with a list of post IDs. If there is a value in this field, any settings in the "Post Type" or "Taxonomy & Term" tabs will be ignored and all public post types will be queried for the specific post IDs provided. All the other widget options (Display, Thumbnails and Template settings) will still be applied.

Per a WordPress support thread: Go to Posts in your WordPress admin, and click the post you need the ID of. Then, if you look in the address bar of your browser, you'll see something like this: http://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1280&action=edit The number, in this case 1280, is the post ID.

You'll want to create a custom HTML template by following the instructions and then you can use the standard WordPress Custom Field functions the same way you would if you were editing your theme's other template files. A simple code example for a custom field named "test_field" might look like the following: $test_field_value = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'test_field', true ); echo $test_field_value;

FPW intentionally does NOT add any styling of it's own. To adjust the font size, color, alignment, image size, etc. of any output from this widget, you'll need to edit your theme's styles.

FPW does not add styles or scripts to your public theme. The plugin is intentionally designed to work within your existing theme. FPW does add one stylesheet and one JavaScript to the Widgets page in wp-admin to help with the administration of any FPWs in use.

I'd love to support more languages. The plugin's POT file is available with the download. Feel free to post PO & MO files for your language to a new forum thread and I'll get them added to the plugin. Questions, Support & Bug Reports To get answers to your questions, request help or submit a bug report, please start a new forum thread.