Brijesh Dhanani

<p>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.</p>
<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>


pjgalbraith

<p>An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.</p>
<p>Features Include:</p>
<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>
<p>See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/</p>


Recent Posts block vs Recent Posts Plus