Neil Batchelor

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EDH Recent Category Manager removes the manual work of curating a “recent articles” category or tag. Once configured, the plugin silently monitors your site and ensures that exactly the number of posts you choose are always assigned to your selected category or tag — no more, no less.
Whenever a post is published, unpublished, or permanently deleted, the membership is recalculated instantly. The oldest post drops out and the newest one takes its place.
Features
<ul>
<li>Settings page nested under the Posts menu in the WordPress admin.</li>
<li>Choose to manage either a Category or a Tag.</li>
<li>Choose any existing category (excluding the site default) or any existing tag as the managed term.</li>
<li>Select between 1 and 15 posts to maintain.</li>
<li>Switching taxonomy type or changing the managed term cleanly removes the plugin’s assignments from the previous one.</li>
<li>Changing the post count takes effect immediately without waiting for the next publish event.</li>
<li>No configuration files or code edits required after activation.</li>
</ul>

EDH Recent Category Manager

Automatically maintains a configurable number of your latest published posts in a chosen category or tag, in real-time.

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Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/ultimate-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget</a>. 
(this trick works for all plugins in the WP repo – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the URL)
UPDATE: Plugin ownership changed for this plugin. We are currently evaluating possible enhancements for it. Stay tuned! If you have any suggestions yourself, please let us know in the Support Forum.
Note: This is a classic widget type, in order for it to work on the latest version of WordPress you will need <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/" rel="ugc">Classic Widgets</a> plugin installed on your site.
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options to customize the display.
Designed for both the average user and developer, Ultimate Posts Widgets aims to provide flexibility and ease of use for displaying any kinds of posts within your widget areas. An array of widget options are available as well as hooks, filters and custom templates for more advanced customization.
<h4>Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Filter by categories</li>
<li>Filter by current category</li>
<li>Filter by tags</li>
<li>Filter by current tag</li>
<li>Filter by custom post types</li>
<li>Filter by sticky posts</li>
<li>Select number of posts to display</li>
<li>Display title</li>
<li>Display publish date/time with custom format options</li>
<li>Display post author and link</li>
<li>Display post comment count</li>
<li>Display excerpt or full content</li>
<li>Display read more link with custom label</li>
<li>Display featured image and at any size</li>
<li>Display post categories</li>
<li>Display post tags</li>
<li>Display custom fields</li>
<li>Add text or HTML before and after posts list</li>
<li>Add CSS class to widget</li>
<li>Add widget title link</li>
<li>Change excerpt length (in words)</li>
<li>Order by date, title, number of comments, random or a custom field</li>
<li>Exclude current post from the list</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ tab</a> for documentation on custom templates, hooks, common issues, and more.
<h4>Support</h4>
For help please ask in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-posts-widget/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a>
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This plugin is part of the Inisev product family – <a href="https://inisev.com" rel="nofollow ugc">check out our other products</a>.

Ultimate Posts Widget

The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.

EDH Recent Category Manager vs Ultimate Posts Widget