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/

k-ny

Displays a custom list of posts to the current one. It use the new Shortcode API of WP2.5 and the WP_Query
New, it works too in your template file !
<a href="http://www.webinventif.fr/query-inside-post-plugin-wordpress-pour-inserer-facilement-une-boucle-dans-un-billet/" rel="nofollow ugc">More infos</a>.
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.5
<ul>
<li>added a function for call it in your template files</li>
<li>fixed a little bug with de global variable $post</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>0.4
<ul>
<li>little bug on display</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>0.3
<ul>
<li>first public release</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Query Inside Post

Displays a custom list of posts to the current one.

Recent Posts Plus vs Query Inside Post