Display all posts from the current post's category in a widget with customizable formatting, display options, and spacing.
Alternatives to Category Post Widget
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WordPress plugins with similar use cases
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AJ Category Postsv1.2.0
A simple & powerful plugin to display WordPress posts by category using customizable shortcodes. Ideal for bloggers, news websites & content creators.
Lightweight page-view tracking and popular-post ranking for WordPress.
Multicolumn Category Widgetv1.0.29
This widget displays top level categories in multiple columns.
Showcase Creatorv1.1.0
Provides tools to display a showcase of posts using a custom layout, advanced filtering and customized post order.
Easy to show posts, pages, custom posts in customizable grid, list, slider, accordion... Available as Widgets (for Elementor), Shortcode, and Blocks.
Advance Widget Packv1.6.0
A pack of content widgets and blocks: recent/popular/related posts, author info, tag cloud, social links, countdown timer, and more.
Dreamy Tagsv1.0.76
Dreamy Tags displays a customizable tag cloud filtered by categories and tags for clean, meaningful blog and archive navigation.
Show your posts with thumbnails in flexible, responsive layouts. Works as a sidebar widget or a block in the editor.
A lightweight HTML sitemap that groups posts by hierarchical categories and can optionally list pages.