by JoomUnited 4.1 (89 reviews)

WP Latest Posts

Name: WP Latest Posts
Rating: 4.1 (89 reviews)
Author: JoomUnited

Load your content from posts, page, tags or custom post type and display it anywhere in WordPress including in Gutenberg editor

WP Latest Posts ranks #2,141 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #251 of 8,549 in the Customization category, a 4.1/5 rating from 89 reviews, and was last updated Jul 28, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1)

v5.0.11 Current Version v5.0.11

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 28 Jul, 2025

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#251 of 8,549 in Customization Top 5% by installs No update in over a year

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#2,141

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Active Installs

10K+

-9.3%

KW Avg Position

23.6

0.2 better

Downloads

579.4K

+3 today

Support Resolved

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Rating

82%

Review 4.1 out of 5

4.1 (89 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 10.1%

10K+ 20K+

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Reviews & Ratings

4.1

89 reviews

Overall 82%

65 (73%)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

3 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Jun 23, 2026 UNPATCHED

WP Latest Posts [wp-latest-posts] <= 5.0.11 (unfixed + closed)

CVE-2026-9620 · No fix released
May 7, 2024

WP Latest Posts [wp-latest-posts] < 5.0.8 (closed)

CVE-2024-4135 · Fixed in v5.0.8
Aug 15, 2015

WP Latest Posts [wp-latest-posts] < 3.7.5 (closed)

CVE-2016-10913 · Fixed in v3.7.5

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Plugin Details

Version: 5.0.11
Last Updated: Jul 28, 2025
Requires WP: 4.7+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: JoomUnited

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.1
Reviews: 89
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

News Widget latest post posts recent post widget recent posts

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to display recent posts, pages, tags, or custom post type content in news-style layouts without coding. It solves the problem of manually building news pages by letting users select content sources and display options and insert them as widgets, shortcodes, or Gutenberg blocks.

Slider display of content
Gutenberg dedicated block
Sidebar widget display
Drag-and-drop content ordering
Carousel sliding news displays
WPML language integration
Polylang language integration
WooCommerce content loading

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Latest Posts

WP Latest Posts is using HTML5 features, so to be certain to run the latest version of Chrome / Firefox / Safari or IE11+

WP Latest posts is compatible with IE9+ and all modern browsers for news display

Very few :) All your news display content is properly stored in the database also added to cache. Furthermore, there's a progressive loading for images and an image size selection (or crop) in all themes for better performance

Absolutely, the Pro addon version is not limited by domain.

In the admin of WordPress, on the left menu named WP Latest posts and its sub menu for news display configuration

Go to the Plugins > WP Latest posts > Deactivate > Delete If you choose to install it later all news display configuration data will remain in place (database stored)

The plugin is natively integrated with Polylang & WPML. When the plugin detects the languages, you can filter the news source by language in each news block. If you're using another multilingual plugual you can create separate news block for each language and get the same result.

Yes, the support has been added since the 3.5.2 version. Compatibility What's the minimum version of WordPress required to run WP Latest posts? WordPress 5+ is required. WP Latest posts may generate PHP errors if you tried to run it on an earlier version, and so it will simply refuse to activate on any version of WordPress that's older than 4.0