igrossiter

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.

Hamed Takmil

You can use this simple plug-in to make and put a fancy box at top of your theme to 
list latest posts in the way users click more on them and increase the chance for 
your post to be seen more than usual.
There are also some customization features accessible from admin area. these are:
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ability to set title,links, border, shadow and background color.</li>
<li>Ability to set padding and margin.</li>
<li>Ability to set border radius for container.</li>
<li>Ability to set custom icon for links.</li>
<li>Ability to set certain category.</li>
<li>Ability to set custom icon for links.</li>
</ul>

List My Posts

Plugin for displaying latest posts in a box at top of your pages to gain more attraction.

OneSpace Last Post vs List My Posts