Kamena

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.
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.
You can use the gallery on your sidebar, footer or anywhere the theme you are using have widget area.
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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.

tweetysha

TW Recent Posts Widget is advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from category you define.
Output will depend on your settings, and you may define to set post title, post date, featured image and post excerpt.
If you set to display featured image, than you will be able to define image width and height in px.
If you set to display excerpt, than you will be able to define how many characters to print and also you may add custom <code>read more</code> text.

TW Recent Posts Widget

A simple and flexible widget for WordPress which will show recent posts from selected category allowing increased customization to display recent post …

Gallery Recent Posts vs TW Recent Posts Widget