eveevans

<p>This plugin allow you to insert a widget for showing posts from a Category. You can easily configurate how to display it.  This can be especially useful for your home page, or sidebar.</p>
<h4>Features & options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable widget title</li>
<li>Get posts from specific category</li>
<li>Set order by: Date, Modified, Title and Random</li>
<li>Set order mode: Ascending or Descending</li>
<li>Set number of post to display</li>
<li>Show/hide Exceprt</li>
<li>Show/hide Thumbnail (Also choose the size: Thumbnail, Medium, Large)</li>
<li>Set a Seconday format with all the options above</li>
<li>Show/hide “See more” link</li>
</ul>
<h4>Included translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Spanish (es_ES)</li>
</ul>


EV Widget Post

Widget for showing posts from a Category. You can easily configurate how to display it.

MediumPixel

<p>Recent Post Widget with date, author and post thumbnail. Its highly customizable for every theme developer to make change as his / her need.</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/MediumPixel/mp-recent-post-widget/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=Recent+Post+Widget+ReadMe&utm_content=Repo+Link" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a></li>
</ul>


MP Recent Post Widget

Recent Post Widget with date, author and post thumbnail

EV Widget Post vs MP Recent Post Widget