This WordPress plugin adds default custom post type widgets. You can filter by registered Custom Post Type or Taxonomy on widgets. Descriptions of Widgets Recent Posts (Custom Post Type) display a list of the most recent custom posts. Title – description that appears over the list of recent custom posts. Post Type – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post). Number of posts to show (at most 15) – enter the number of posts to display. Display post date? – if checked, display post date. Class Name – widget_recent_entries Archives (Custom Post Type) display a list of archive links for each month that has custom posts. Title – description that appears over the list of archive links. Post Type – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post). Display as dropdown – if checked, this box causes the archives to be displayed in a drop-down box. Show post counts – if checked, this box causes a count of the number of posts for each archive period. Class Name – widget_archive Categories (Custom Post Type) display a list of categories that has custom posts. Title – description that appears over the list of categories. Taxonomy – if selected, filter a custom taxonomy (e.g. category). Display as dropdown – if checked, this box causes the categories to be displayed in a dropdown box. Show post counts – if checked, this box causes the count of the number of posts to display with each category. Show hierarchy – if checked, shows parent/child relationships in an indented manner. Class Name – widget_categories Calendar (Custom Post Type) display a calendar of the current month. Title – description that appears over the calendar. Post Type – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post). Class Name – widget_calendar Recent Comments (Custom Post Type) display a list of the most recent comments. Title – description that appears over the list of recent comments. Post Type – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post). Number of comments to show (at most 15) – enter the number of comments to be displayed. Class Name – widget_recent_comments Tag Cloud (Custom Post Type) display a list of the top 45 that has used in a tag cloud. Title – description that appears over the tag cloud. Taxonomy – if selected, filter a custom taxonomy (e.g. post_tag). Class Name – widget_tag_cloud Search (Custom Post Type) A search form for your site. Title – description that appears over the search. Post Type – if selected, filter by a custom post type. (e.g. post). Class Name – widget_search Contribute Small patches, bug reports and the translation can be submitted a issue tracker in Github. Forking on Github is another good way. You can send a pull request. Github : custom-post-type-widgets If you would like to contribute, here are some notes and guidlines. All development happens on the develop branch, so it is always the most up-to-date The master branch only contains tagged releases If you are going to be submitting a pull request, please submit your pull request to the develop branch See about forking and pull requests