Mrinal Roy

<p>Latest Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from your site with various options like excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to change ordering of posts.</li>
<li>Option to show post thumbnail & set dimension by width & height.</li>
<li>Set how many posts to show.</li>
<li>Option to show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.</li>
<li>Option to show the post date.</li>
<li>Option to show the comment count.</li>
<li>Multiple widgets.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at<br />
<a href="https://github.com/mkrdip/latest-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> (If possible with a pull request).</p>


Latest Posts Widget

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature

Taylor Lovett

<p>Show latest posts from specific categories in your sidebar. Simple, easy-to-use, and customizble.</p>
<p>Special Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose posts from up to three categories to display posts from</li>
<li>Optionally show post titles</li>
<li>Optionally show post bylines</li>
<li>A dashboard widget that displays WordPress blogging tips, SEO tricks, exclusive tutorials, SEO strategies, and more!</li>
<li>Show either the content, the excerpt, or the content with a limited number of characters</li>
<li>Limit the number of posts shown. Offset the posts that are shown</li>
<li><strong>Widget includes a style manager!</strong></li>
<li>Easily change the font size, font family, title font size, etc from within the widget.</li>
<li>This widget is reusable</li>
<li>Very easy to setup. <strong>Requires NO technical knowledge</strong> to install</li>
<li>Can be translated to multiple languages</li>
<li>Outputs <strong>clean, validated code</strong></li>
<li>Free Support via email</li>
</ul>
<p>Restrictions/Requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Works with WordPress 2.8.1+, WPMU, and BuddyPress (WordPress 3.0+ is highly recommended)</li>
<li>PHP 4 or 5</li>
<li>PHP register_globals and safe_mode should be set to “Off” (this is done in your php.ini file)</li>
<li>Your theme must call wp_head() and wp_footer()</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuring and Using the Plugin</h3>
<p>Instructions for this plugin can be found at http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For questions, feature requests, and support concerning the Latest News Widget plugin, please visit:<br />
http://www.taylorlovett.com/wordpress-plugins</p>


Latest Posts Widget vs Latest News Widget