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Veja descrição em portugues em: http://onespace.com.br/lastpost/
This plugin provides you with a shortcode that returns the latest posts from specifics categories or post_types, you can choose how many posts is to be show or what kind of information you can get from posts.
Arguments:
<ol>
<li>id – You can use any number of post categories ids separeted by commas</li>
<li>num – the number of posts to return for wich categorie id</li>
<li>info – this is where goes all the printing information</li>
</ol>
Info printing arguments:
<ol>
<li>thumb: returns the post’s featured image, you must specify the width of the thumb after ‘:’, has a link to the post</li>
<li>title: returns the title, has a link to the post</li>
<li>excerpt: returns the first lines from you post you can specify the lenght of the text to show and a subtext. excerpt:LENGTH:SUB-TEXT, has a link to the post</li>
<li>content: returns all content from post</li>
<li>date: returns date of post publishing, you can specify the format after ‘:’</li>
</ol>
More about date:
Date format uses php default formating symbols, here goes some of then;
d: day of month 
m: month 
y: year
it has some limitations, you can’t use escape chars (yet).
check the manual to see the complete list: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
A few examples:
[os_lastpost id=”x,y,z” num=2 info=”title,date:d/m/y,thumb:130,excerpt:120: … veja mais”]
returns the latest 2 posts from post categories x, y and z, printing the date on Day/Month/Year, featured image 130 px of width, 120 chars from post content (html stripped) and a custom text ” … veja mais” at the end.
[os_lastpost post_type=”custom_post_type” num=5 info=”title,excerpt”]
returns the latest 5 posts from a custom post type, printing title, and the first 60 chars from the post content and a default text ” … read more”
[os_lastpost post_type=”post” num=5 info=”title,content”]
returns the latest 5 posts from all your categories, printing title, and full content
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>

OneSpace Last Post

Provides a shortcode to get the latest posts on the blog, for one or more categories or a post_type.

ShapedPlugin LLC

Rubel Miah

Latest Posts is a very powerful widget plugin for WordPress which displays your most recent or latest posts, category based with thumbnails, date. This is perfect for simple blogs & online magazines. Widgets come with highly-customizable control panels. Easy to use and support multi-widget even in the same sidebar.
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>100% Responsive & Mobile Ready</li>
<li>Super Easy Installation</li>
<li>Minimalist & Lightweight</li>
<li>Easily Customizable</li>
<li>All Major Browsers Supported</li>
<li>Coded with Pure HTML & CSS</li>
</ul>

Latest Posts

Latest posts widget to display recent posts from category.

OneSpace Last Post vs Latest Posts