planetoftheweb

Displays a list of the latest posts with category headings, the date and author name. You can control the number of posts displayed as well as modify the title of the widget and put in a descriptive paragraph. As seen on http://iviewsource.com.

User Photo

Displays a better looking list of the blog's posts.

Paul Schreiber

This plugin adds the ability to put a shortcode tag in any static page or post and have it display an excerpt from your latest blog post.
There are no settings or options.
It generates markup like this, which you can style as desired:
<pre><code><div class='latest-post'>
<a href='http://www.mysite.ca/blog/post'>Look ma, no hands!</a>
Today I rode a bicycle &hellip;<a href="http://www.mysite.ca/blog/post">Continue reading &rarr;</a>
</div>
</code></pre>

Get Latest Post

Adds a shortcode tag [get_latest_post] to display an excerpt from your latest blog post.

User Photo vs Get Latest Post