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.

pjgalbraith

An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.
Features Include:
<ul>
<li>Display post thumbnails, with customizable size.</li>
<li>Display post excerpt, author, comment count, and more. </li>
<li>Provides options to trim the number of characters in the title and excerpt.</li>
<li>Override the post order to order by; date modified, title, post ID, random, comment count etc.</li>
<li>Exclude or include specific posts, authors, tags, or categories.</li>
<li>Also includes a simple template parser so you can override the default output making custom styling easy.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/

mg Recent Posts vs Recent Posts Plus