Gaurav Tiwari

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<li>Lightweight – Just 5kB in size.</li>
<li>Tested on WordPress 3.5+ // WordPress 4.1 recommended.</li>
<li>Customize the way you want.</li>
<li>Link to one of your blog pages.</li>
<li>Free support and future updates at <a href="http://gauravtiwari.org/" title="Gaurav Tiwari" rel="nofollow ugc">personal blog</a></li>
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Beautiful Recent Posts Widget

Beautiful Recent Posts Widget (BRPW) is a clean minimal sidebar widget to showcase your recent articles in a clean & beautiful way.

dmallon

<p>The Post To Sidebar plugin makes it easy to display post content in the sidebar areas of your site. Once the widget is activated, a multi-select dropdown of all your published pages appears on post editing screens. Select the pages upon which you want the post to be displayed and the post will appear on those pages.</p>
<p>There are options to hide the post title in the output and to show the content as an excerpt.</p>


Post To Sidebar

A WordPress plugin/widget that gives you the ability to put content (posts and custom post types) in your sidebar.

Beautiful Recent Posts Widget vs Post To Sidebar