George Stephanis

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.

Recent Category Posts Widget

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

Scott Reilly

The plugin provides a widget called “Linkify Catagories” as well as a template tag, <code>c2c_linkify_categories()</code>, which allow you to easily specify categories to list and how to list them. Categories are specified by either ID or slug. See other parts of the documentation for example usage and capabilities.
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/linkify-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/linkify-categories/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/linkify-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
Developer documentation can be found in <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/linkify-categories/blob/master/DEVELOPER-DOCS.md" rel="nofollow ugc">DEVELOPER-DOCS.md</a>. That documentation covers the template tag and hook provided by the plugin.
As an overview, this is the template tag provided by the plugin:
<ul>
<li><code>c2c_linkify_categories()</code> : Template tag to display links to each of any number of categories specified via category IDs/slugs. You can customize text to show before and/or after the entire listing, between each category, and what to display (if anything) when no categories are listed.</li>
</ul>
This is the hook provided by the plugin:
<ul>
<li><code>c2c_linkify_categories</code> : Allows use of an alternative approach to safely invoke <code>c2c_linkify_categories()</code> in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.</li>
</ul>

Linkify Categories

Turn a string, list, or array of category IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those category archives. Provides a widget and template tag.

Recent Category Posts Widget vs Linkify Categories