cpjolicoeur

<p>Category Teaser uses a WordPress widget to display the latest post excerpt from a category you choose.  The output can be styled using CSS.</p>


Category Teaser

Displays the excerpt from the latest post in a certain category with link to full post

Ross Cornell

<p>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.</p>


very easy to use

Very usefull

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

Category Teaser vs Recent Posts by Category Widget