Category Posts Widget

Category Posts Widget

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.

  • Frequently updated
    Very good! This plugin is actively maintained and the last update was released 21 days ago.
  • This plugin is tested with the last major release of WordPress
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  • Compatible with the latest major PHP release
    This plugin requieres PHP 5.3 or higher. The latest stable PHP 8.4.10 was released on 03 July 2025
  • No unfixed plugin vulnerabilities
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Ratings

79

Active installs

50K

Total Downloads

2 M

Support Threads

1

Last updated

20 June 2025

Added

24 October 2007

Versions

87.95%12.05%
  • Version 4.9
  • Version other

Screenshots

Front end of the widget with SVG font-icon support for post formats, hover effects and the Template text-area.
Template to arrange the post details with placeholders.
Edit the widget options with the customizer.
Use shortcode [catposts] in the content.
The widget configuration dialog.
Widget behaviour settings for each user.

About Category Posts Widget

FAQ

Here You can control the Post Detail parts, which appears as part of the post item. All post detail will placed as placeholder. The text in the Template area can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or HTML for SVG icons.

How it works? and examples.

For more layout options please try our premium widget: Term and Category based Posts Widget.

For SVG font-icon HTML we recommend the WordPress Dashicons, which are included as default and can be used without any font-icon including.

Read more about Page Builder plugins at our FAQs

Use the option: ‘Disable only font style’ in the General panel.

Is just a single category selected in the Filter panel: Enable the check box “Make widget title link”.
Is ‘All categories’ selected in the Filter panel: Use the text field ‘Title link URL’.

For SVG font-icon HTML we recommend the WordPress Dashicons, which are included as default and can be used without any font-icon including.

Read more about Page Builder plugins at our FAQs

Use the option: ‘Disable only font style’ in the General panel.

Is just a single category selected in the Filter panel: Enable the check box “Make widget title link”.
Is ‘All categories’ selected in the Filter panel: Use the text field ‘Title link URL’.

Read more about Page Builder plugins at our FAQs

Use the option: ‘Disable only font style’ in the General panel.

Is just a single category selected in the Filter panel: Enable the check box “Make widget title link”.
Is ‘All categories’ selected in the Filter panel: Use the text field ‘Title link URL’.

Use the option: ‘Disable only font style’ in the General panel.

Is just a single category selected in the Filter panel: Enable the check box “Make widget title link”.
Is ‘All categories’ selected in the Filter panel: Use the text field ‘Title link URL’.

Is just a single category selected in the Filter panel: Enable the check box “Make widget title link”.
Is ‘All categories’ selected in the Filter panel: Use the text field ‘Title link URL’.

Changelog

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4.9.21 – June 20th 2025

4.9.20 – April 2rd 2025

4.9.19 – March 10th 2025

4.9.18 – Oct 12th 2024

4.9.17 – Juli 08th 2024

4.9.16 – March 26th 2024

4.9.15 – May 2 2023

4.9.14 – May 1 2023

4.9.13 – July 22 2021

4.9.12 – July 20 2021

4.9.11 – April 15th 2021

4.9.10 – December 15th 2020

4.9.9 – December 9th 2020

4.9.8 – November 30th 2020

4.9.7 – November 21th 2020

4.9.6 – November 16th 2020

4.9.5 – May 12th 2020

4.9.4 – March 2th 2020

4.9.3 – March 18th 2020

4.9.2 – Mai 23th 2019

4.9.1 – Mai 17th 2019

4.8.5 – April 02nd 2018

4.8.4 – April 02nd 2018

4.8.3 – March 03th 2018

4.8.2 – January 30th 2018

4.8.1 – January 25th 2018

4.8 – January 22th 2018

4.7.4 – October 21th 2017

4.7.3 – October 10th 2017

4.7.2 – February 25th 2017

4.7.1 – December 20th 2016

4.6.2 – August 28th 2016

4.6.1 – June 5th 2016

4.1.9 – May 5th 2016

4.1.8 – May 3th 2016

4.1.7 – April 14th 2016

4.1.6 – April 13th 2016

4.1.5 – February 4th 2016

4.1.4

4.1.3

4.1.2

4.1.1

4.1.0

4.0

3.3

3.2

3.1

3.0

2.3

2.1

2.0

How to install Category Posts Widget

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of Category Posts Widget,

  1. log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
  2. In the search field type “Category Posts Widget” and click Search Plugins.
  3. Once you’ve found plugin, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
  4. Then, go to plugins page of WordPress admin activate the plugin.
  5. Now, goto the Widgets page of the Appearance section and configure the Category Posts widget.

Manual installation

  1. Download the plugin.
  2. Upload it to the plugins folder of your blog.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  4. Now, goto the Widgets page of the Appearance section and configure the Category Posts widget.