Smart Posts Widget
Smart Posts Widget – is designed to show your posts as you want without any programming knowledge. display all type of post types from a certain post type or post category or post tags.
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Smart Posts Widget shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 40+ sites, is rated 3/5 and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (40+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 10 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.5 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Smart Posts Widget stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| all posts | >100 |
| page | >100 |
| post | >100 |
| posts | >100 |
| sidebar | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 3 from 2 reviews
About Smart Posts Widget
From the official readme · v1.0Description
Smart Posts Widget – is designed to show your posts as you want without any programming knowledge. display all type of post types from a certain post type or post category or post tags.
There are many options for user to filter or order posts. You can able to select many options to choose your posts.
Smart Posts Widgets developed to provide very easy to user for displaying all types of posts within your widget areas.
widget is compatible with Page Builder. You can create beautiful page layouts and show posts as per your choice.
You can check demo on following pages.
http://digcms.com/test-smart-posts-widget-page/
Step by step insllation instructions >>
Tested upto 4.0
Click here for customer support >>
Features
- Compatible with Page Builder
- Filter by tags
- Filter by categories
- Custom Post type support
- Set how many posts to show.
- Filter by sticky posts
- Option to change ordering of posts.
- Select number of posts to display
- Option to show post thumbnail & set dimension by width and height.
- Display title
- Option to show created post date.
- Option to show updated post date.
- Set which category posts
- Display post author and link
- Change excerpt length (in words)
- Display post comment count
- Display excerpt or full content
- Option to make the widget title link to category or tag page.
- Add text or HTML before and after posts list
- Multiple widgets
- Add custom CSS to widget
- Order by post comments
- Order by random posts
- Order by created date
- Order by post title
Contribute
While using this plugin if you find any bug or issue, than please write email to me at purabdk@gmail.com
Help
Step by step insllation instructions >>
Click here for customer support >>
For help and support please contact us at contact [at] digcms.com
Installation
Step by step insllation instructions >>
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 Smart Posts Widget,
- log in to WordPress dashboard, Go to Plugins menu and click Add New.
- Search for “Smart Posts Widget” and click Search Plugins.
- After finding plugin, click on “Install Now”.
- Goto Widgets page of the Appearance section and configure the Smart Posts widget.
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FAQ
Smart Posts Widget: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 5, 2026
Is Smart Posts Widget free?
Yes. Smart Posts Widget is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Smart Posts Widget safe to use in 2026?
Smart Posts Widget shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 40+ sites, is rated 3/5 and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Smart Posts Widget?
Smart Posts Widget is active on 40+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 6,337 times since it launched in October 2014. It was downloaded 57 times in the last 30 days.
Does Smart Posts Widget work with WordPress 7.1?
Smart Posts Widget is officially tested up to WordPress 4.5.33, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Smart Posts Widget last updated?
The latest version, 1.0, was released on April 28, 2016 (10 years ago).
Who makes Smart Posts Widget?
Smart Posts Widget is developed and maintained by Purab.
What are the best alternatives to Smart Posts Widget?
The most popular alternatives to Smart Posts Widget are Featured image to All-Posts (300+ installs), NoIndex NoFollow All Posts (100+ installs) and My Related Posts (10+ installs).
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