George Stephanis

<p>Sure, WordPress has a widget for displaying your most recent posts, but what if you want to only display the posts from a single category in a widget, and not everything?  This plugin Widget lets you set the title, category, and quantity of posts to display, then it kicks out a list of the most recent posts in that category.</p>


Recent Category Posts Widget

This widget will let you display a list of the most recent posts in a single category in your sidebar.

Rajnish K.

<p>This is a simple, light weight and little widget that adds in some useful amazing functionality that WordPress doesn’t offer in its category widget. Some Features of this Widget are:-</p>
<ul>
<li>Manage Which Category to Show and Which to Hide.</li>
<li>Enable Disable Post Count.</li>
<li>Hide Or Show Empty Categories with no posts.</li>
<li>Limit Max Number of Categories to be Displayed…etc.</li>
</ul>


Easy Categories Management Widget

This plugin adds a widget which let you display a list of categories in your sidebar with more features and flexibility.

Recent Category Posts Widget vs Easy Categories Management Widget