titusbicknell

A widget and short code to show the most recently modified pages, posts or both allowing visitors to review recent changes as they would on a wiki. Options to select number of items returned up to 15 and exclude items by ID.
Use shortcode [recentchanges] with options content, exclude and number e.g. [recentchanges content=’pages’ number=’10’ exclude=’5,8′] in post/pages.
content = ‘pages’, ‘posts’ or ‘both’ 
number = ‘1’ to ’15’ 
exclude = any number of pages/post by ID separated by commas
NB this plugin supersedes Recent Pages

Recent Changes

A widget and short code to show the most recently modified pages, posts or both allowing visitors to review recent changes as they would on a wiki.

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/

Recent Changes vs Recent Posts Plus