pmclain

Maintain layout formatting when post titles are too long. Plugin allows admin to set maximum title characters and define truncation padding.

Truncate Recent Posts Titles

Recent Posts Widget with truncated post titles.

tweetysha

TW Recent Posts Widget is advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from category you define.
Output will depend on your settings, and you may define to set post title, post date, featured image and post excerpt.
If you set to display featured image, than you will be able to define image width and height in px.
If you set to display excerpt, than you will be able to define how many characters to print and also you may add custom <code>read more</code> text.

TW Recent Posts Widget

A simple and flexible widget for WordPress which will show recent posts from selected category allowing increased customization to display recent post …

Truncate Recent Posts Titles vs TW Recent Posts Widget