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>
<h3>Screendsots</h3>
<ol>
<li>Gallery Recent Post settings</li>
<li>Example masonry grid gallery with recent posts</li>
</ol>


Gallery Recent Posts

Displays recent posts thumbnails as the masonry grid gallery.

pjgalbraith

<p>An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.</p>
<p>Features Include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Display post thumbnails, with customizable size.</li>
<li>Display post excerpt, author, comment count, and more. </li>
<li>Provides options to trim the number of characters in the title and excerpt.</li>
<li>Override the post order to order by; date modified, title, post ID, random, comment count etc.</li>
<li>Exclude or include specific posts, authors, tags, or categories.</li>
<li>Also includes a simple template parser so you can override the default output making custom styling easy.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/</p>


Gallery Recent Posts vs Recent Posts Plus