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Recently Viewed (VX)
Shows visitors the posts they've looked at recently — a low-effort way to help people get back to a listing they saw earlier.
Tracking works for everyone: logged-in users have their history stored in user meta, so it follows them across devices, while guests are tracked in localStorage in their own browser.
Enable it under Voxel Toolkit → Widgets.
Guest history is per-browser
A guest's list lives in their browser only. It won't survive clearing site data, and doesn't carry to another device. If someone logs in later, treat the two histories as separate.
Content
| Control | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Title | Heading above the list |
| Title HTML Tag | Which heading level to render |
| Post Type | Which Voxel post type to track and show |
| Max Posts | How many recent posts to display |
| Columns | Grid columns |
| Gap | Spacing between cards |
| Show Clear Link | Let the visitor clear their own history |
| Clear Link Text | Label for that link |
Keep Max Posts small
Four to six is usually right. This is a convenience shortcut, not a browsing interface — a long list competes with your actual search and takes over the page.
Show Clear Link is worth enabling. It's a small privacy courtesy on a shared or public computer, and it costs nothing.
Where to place it
- A sidebar or footer on archive and single-post templates, where it's useful without being intrusive
- The account dashboard, as a "pick up where you left off" section
- Not the homepage for first-time visitors — it renders empty until someone has viewed something
Styling
Elementor controls for the header — bottom spacing, vertical alignment — and the title's colour and margin, plus the card grid.
Troubleshooting
The widget is empty
Expected until the visitor has viewed a post of the selected type. Test by visiting a couple of posts, then returning to the page with the widget.
It stays empty after viewing posts
- Confirm Post Type matches the posts being viewed — it tracks one type
- For guests, confirm the browser allows localStorage; private windows and strict privacy settings can block it
- Confirm a page cache isn't serving a cached copy of the widget to every visitor
History doesn't follow a user between devices
Only logged-in users get cross-device history, via user meta. Anything viewed while logged out stays in that browser.
Cleared history comes back
Clearing removes the stored list, but viewing posts again rebuilds it — that's the intended behaviour, not a bug.