Kailash Chand

Kailash Recent Post Pages allows you to display recent posts anywhere on your site using a shortcode. You can configure: 
* Number of posts 
* Number of columns 
* Show/hide featured images 
* Show/hide read more links 
* Customize read more text 
* Display on all pages or only single posts

Kailash Recent Post Pages

A plugin to display recent posts in a customizable grid with options for featured image, read more links, and number of columns.

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 …

Kailash Recent Post Pages vs TW Recent Posts Widget