Kamena

<p>Gallery Recent Posts is a widget that can come in handy for many site. Display your recent posts in more creative and inovative way – with the popular masonry grid gallery.</p>
<p>All you need to do is to install the plugin and select number of posts to show and number of columns. Gallery Recent Posts widget will automatically get the first n-number posts with thumbnails and sort them in the masonry grid gallery.</p>
<p>You can use the gallery on your sidebar, footer or anywhere the theme you are using have widget area.</p>
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<li>Gallery Recent Post settings</li>
<li>Example masonry grid gallery with recent posts</li>
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Gallery Recent Posts

Displays recent posts thumbnails as the masonry grid gallery.

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.

Gallery Recent Posts vs Recent Posts by Category Widget