mgiulio

This is an improvement of the default Recent Posts widget to select posts by a category.
For more informations and news please visit the official <a href="http://mgiulio.info/projects/mg-recent-posts/" rel="nofollow ugc">project page</a>.

mg Recent Posts

A widget to display recent posts by category.

illuminatus7

An easy to use Recent Posts Plugin. This plugin will allow you to display the recent posts in a sidebar only on a category page.
New Features Added
<ul>
<li>Specify the number of posts to display in the sidebar</li>
<li>Show/ hide excerpt</li>
<li>Specify the number of words to be displayed in the excerpt</li>
<li>Option to specify custom Read More text</li>
<li>The Read More text is also a link to the posts permalink</li>
</ul>

Categories Recent Posts Widget

This widget displays the recent posts on a category page for that category

mg Recent Posts vs Categories Recent Posts Widget