10 Best Weaver Show Posts Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Weaver Show Posts has 5,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Weaver Show Posts
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Arconix Shortcodes
Closest match4.6 (24) 4,000+ active installsArconix Shortcodes provides a number of useful design elements like buttons, boxes, tabs and toggles to help compliment any website.
Shares the shortcodes tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 30, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 4,000+ active installsWordpress plugin to add shortcodes for Twitter Bootstrap 3.3
Shares the shortcodes tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated March 10, 2026.
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Shortcake (Shortcode UI)
4.1 (24) 10,000+ active installsShortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.
Shares the shortcodes tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since January 16, 2019.
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4.9 (53) 4,000+ active installsShortcodes Finder helps you to find, test, clean and get informations about the shortcodes in your WordPress website posts, pages and custom contents.
Shares the shortcodes tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 9, 2026.
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4.9 (31) 10,000+ active installsShortcode to show any current, past, and future date or time. Display this, previous, or next year, month, day, etc.
Shares the shortcodes tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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4.5 (97) 30,000+ active installsShow and hide widgets on specific posts, pages and sections of your site.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated May 18, 2026.
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4.7 (161) 20,000+ active installsThe easiest and highest rated way to Add Widgets or Sidebars to Posts and Pages using Visual editor, shortcodes or template tags.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since November 13, 2024.
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4.9 (54) 20,000+ active installsEasily assign custom, widget-enabled sidebars to any page.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since February 23, 2025.
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4.8 (24) 10,000+ active installsDisable sidebar and dashboard widgets with an easy to use interface.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated July 17, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 10,000+ active installsA flexible and robust accordion menu plugin
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since May 19, 2025.
Switching from Weaver Show Posts: common questions
What is the best alternative to Weaver Show Posts?
Arconix Shortcodes is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 4,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Weaver Show Posts alternative has the most users?
Widget Context, with 30,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Weaver Show Posts alternative is rated highest?
Simple Page Sidebars, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 54 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Weaver Show Posts alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Weaver Show Posts score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Weaver Show Posts on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Arconix Shortcodes is the closest match to Weaver Show Posts by the data we track, and Widget Context has the widest reach with 30,000+ active installs. WP Date and Time Shortcode shipped the most recent release, on August 25, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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