Recent Custom Posts

It’s easy to add a recent posts widget to your sidebar, in fact it’s almost a standard feature! But what about your custom post types?!

Well now, you can add a list of recent posts for any or all of your custom post types to your blog sidebar with the Recent Custom Post Types plugin!

Works with any custom post types so you can display post types created by any other plugin as well as your own – just select it from the list. Show Classifieds, Products, Wiki pages, Forum topics, Testimonials and more.

It takes seconds to set up and is configurable with options including;

Widget title
Post type, including the standard post, page and attachment types
Up to 20 posts
Include your featured image as a thumbnail for each post

Plus, you can add as many instances of the widget as you need for as many post types as you want!

Just activate the plugin and you can instantly add the widget to any of your theme sidebars.

Just add the widget to your theme sidebar

Then sit back as your site is furnished with your recent posts.

Custom post type widget in action

See the installation instructions to get started.

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

To install:

1. Download the plugin file
2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
3. Upload the recent-custom-post-type folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site

On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
For WordPress Multisite installs – Activate it blog-by-blog (say if you wanted to make it a Supporter premium plugin), or visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.

4. Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin: