Free plugin
Your latest news, always in view
Show your latest posts on the home page, categories in the sidebar, a search box in the footer. They update by themselves every time you write.
Five handy blocks
Help visitors read more
Put them anywhere: in a page, in a post, in the sidebar or in the footer of your theme.
Recent posts
Your latest posts as a list, a grid or a magazine page with a big first story. With pictures, dates and excerpts, if you like.
One topic at a time
Show only the posts of some categories or tags, even in tabs: “All”, then one for each topic.
Recent comments
The latest approved comments, with who wrote them and on which post. A sign your blog is alive.
Tag cloud
Your most used tags, bigger the more posts they have. Visitors see at a glance what you talk about.
Categories
All your categories with links and the number of posts, subcategories under their parent.
Search box
A search box for your site, with the words you choose for the label and the button.
In a sidebar
Always something to read next
Put a search box and your latest posts beside every article: readers find the next story without going back to the home page. The list updates itself when you publish.
- In Appearance → Areas, or in any page
- With pictures and dates, or just the titles
Nothing to look after
Set it once, it keeps up
Publish a post or approve a comment and the widgets change by themselves. They take your theme’s fonts and colors and keep pages light.
- They match your theme
- They speak the language of the page
- The post being read is left out of the list
- Fast pages: no extra scripts
Get started
Ready in a few minutes
Install it
In Plugins → Add New, find Widgets, then click Install and Activate.
Add a block
Open a page, or your theme’s sidebar or footer, and pick a block from the Widgets group, such as Recent posts.
Choose how it looks
Pick the layout, how many posts and which topics. Leave the title empty for the usual one, or write your own.
Questions
Do I have to update them by hand?
No. Every new post, comment or category shows up by itself.
Will they match my site’s style?
Yes, they use your theme’s fonts and colors, whatever theme you choose.
I am moving from WordPress: will my widgets come along?
Yes. Install this plugin and the importer turns the recent posts, comments, tag cloud, categories and search blocks into these, with the same options.
Goes well with
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Complete SEO: search titles and descriptions with variables, a content analysis with a score out of 100 for up to five keywords, social cards, schema.org with local business data, sitemap rules, a log of pages not found, IndexNow, llms.txt and robots.txt. Free, a full alternative to the SEO plugin.
Community
Cleitext grows with you
Found a problem, or missing a feature? Tell us on GitHub: every report is read and taken care of. And if you like Cleitext, leave a star: it helps others find it.
Free, open source, yours
Like every plugin in the official catalog: GPL license, no subscription, no limits.
