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
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OneSpace Last Post

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

kuck1u

This plugin adds a widget to display the new post list belonging to the specified term.
The style sheet for the Widget not included. 
Please layout in the style sheet of the theme.
CSS Classes
<pre><code>.va-term-latest-posts {}
.post_list {}
.post_list_items {}
.post_list_items_anchor {}
.post_list_items_thumbnail {}
.post_list_items_thumbnail img {}
.post_list_items_meta {}
.post_list_items_meta_title {}
.post_list_items_meta_date {}
</code></pre>
Hint 
HTML output from Widget is done cached for a certain time. 
If WP_DEBUG is TRUE, each time the cache is deleted.

VA Term Latest Posts Widget

This plugin adds a widget to display the new post list belonging to the specified term.

OneSpace Last Post vs VA Term Latest Posts Widget