Vladimir Prelovac

Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories and you want to display them as a part of search results.
Plugin by <a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir" rel="nofollow ugc">Vladimir Prelovac</a>.
<h3>License</h3>
This file is part of Category Search.
Category Search is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Category Search is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Category Search. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.

Category Search

Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories.

Ross Cornell

This plugin adds a simple widget that allows you to display a number of recent blog posts from a specific category. You have the options to choose a title, category, number of posts and whether or not to show the post date. The posts will be ordered by date just like the default Recent Posts widget included with WordPress.

very easy to use

Very usefull

Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.

Category Search vs Recent Posts by Category Widget