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/

Mahabub Hasan

Responsive Posts Widget is advanced version of the WordPress Recent Responsive Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from category,Order by,time limit you define. 
Output will depend on your settings, and you may define to set post title,post title url, post date, featured image ,post excerpt and read more,post author,post comments. 
If you set to display title, than you will be able to define how many characters to print. 
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 read more text.
<ul>
<li>You can create custom titles</li>
<li>You can create titles url</li>
<li>You can create titles & content limit</li>
<li>You can set how many posts you wish to display </li>
<li>You can select any category </li>
<li>You can choose from predefined image sizes,or set custom width and height</li>
<li>You can choose to define the featured image</li>
<li>You can run as many instances of the widget that you want to!</li>
<li>You can order your posts randomly </li>
<li>You can order your posts time</li>
</ul>
Easy to configure CSS 
You can check demo on following pages. 
http://plugin.bdwebteam.com/responsive-posts-widget/
Credits
<ul>
<li>Author URI: http://bdwebteam.com</li>
<li>Support Email: m.manik01@gmail.com</li>
</ul>
Recommended WordPress Plugins
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/service-boxes-widgets-text-icon/" rel="ugc">Service Boxes Widgets Text Icon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/bdwebteam-recent-post-tabs-widget/" rel="ugc">bdwebteam recent post tabs widget</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Implement</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to the wp admin Widget page.</li>
<li>Drag and drop “Responsive Posts Widget” into active sidebar.</li>
</ol>

Responsive Posts Widget

Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature

Recent Posts Plus vs Responsive Posts Widget