Brijesh Dhanani

The Recent Posts Block for Gutenberg lets you add a recent posts section in your posts or pages. It provides support for your custom post types. simply select post type from list of post types for which you want to display recent posts. It also comes with customization options like image size, post meta options, ordering etc. to suit your needs.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Get recent posts of your favourite custom post type.</li>
<li>Manage ordering like ascending or descending.</li>
<li>Image size options.</li>
<li>Post meta settings like post date, post excerpt etc.</li>
</ul>

WP Chill

CPO Widgets is a WordPress plugin that provides you with an number of essential widgets for any website. They give you additional functionality to easily display more varied content in your sidebars, such as images or tweets.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/ascendant/" rel="ugc">Ascendant</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/affluent/" rel="ugc">Affluent</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/allegiant/" rel="ugc">Allegiant</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/antreas/" rel="ugc">Antreas</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/transcend/" rel="ugc">Transcend</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/intuition/" rel="ugc">Intuition</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/illustrious/" rel="ugc">Illustrious</a></li>
</ul>
This plugin adds the following available widgets:
Recent Posts – A more powerful version of the default recent posts widget provided by WordPress. This widget allows you to display a thumbnail of each post and also to choose which post type to display.
Ad Space – Easily insert images without having to resort to writing HTML in a text widget. You can also link the image or add your own advertising code.
Social Profiles – Add links to your preferred social profiles, being able to choose from a long list of available social networks.
Recent Tweets – Display your latest tweets from any Twitter account. This widgets provides support for the Twitter API 1.1.
Flickr Images – Show your latest images from a Flickr account right into your sidebar, and linking to your Flickr gallery.
Author Badge – Display the profile of a specific user, showing the name, image, and profile description.
<h3>Included Widgets</h3>
<ul>
<li>Recent Posts</li>
<li>Image Banner widget</li>
<li>Social Profiles widget</li>
<li>Recent Tweets widget</li>
<li>Flickr Images widget</li>
<li>Author Badge widget</li>
</ul>

CPO Widgets

Add essential functionality to your WordPress sidebars with a set of useful widgets.

Recent Posts block vs CPO Widgets