Creating Custom Post Types is easy now, you do this by editing your theme and adding some code to it or there are many free plugins available that allows you to do so easily but most of these plugins doesn’t gives you features to displaythem. Now this tutorial is on a free widget plugin that lets you display WordPress posts and custom post types easilyusing many options it provides you.
So simply install and activate Ultimate Posts Widget plugin then visit your Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page and drag its widget to your sidebar of any other widget area your theme provides.
You will be getting all following features in this powerful widget plugin:
- Display title
- Display excerpt
- Filter by categories
- Display publish date
- Filter by sticky posts
- Display read more link
- Display featured image
- Display more button link
- Filter by current category
- Filter by custom post types
- Custom featured image size
- Custom read more link text
- Select number of posts to display
- Custom excerpt length (in words)
- Order by date, title, number of comments or random