Ga Satrya

<h4>Plugin description</h4>
<p>This plugin will enable a custom, flexible and advanced recent posts, you can display it via shortcode or widget. Allows you to display a list of the most recent posts with thumbnail, excerpt and post date, also you can display it from all or specific or multiple taxonomy, post type and much more!</p>
<h4>Support this project</h4>
<p>If you are enjoying this plugin. I would appreciate a cup of coffee to help me keep coding and supporting the project! <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/gasatrya" rel="nofollow ugc">Support & donate</a>.</p>
<h4>Features Include</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display by date, comment count or random.</li>
<li>Enable thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment.</li>
<li>Enable excerpt, with customizable length.</li>
<li>Display from all, specific or multiple category or tag.</li>
<li>Enable post date.</li>
<li>Display modification date.</li>
<li>Display comment count.</li>
<li>Post type support.</li>
<li>Taxonomy support.</li>
<li>Post status.</li>
<li>Custom HTML or text before and/or after recent posts.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode feature</strong>.</li>
<li>Crop image on the fly.</li>
<li>Enable Read more.</li>
<li>Custom CSS.</li>
<li>Multiple widgets.</li>
<li>Available filter for developer.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li>Translate to <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/" rel="nofollow ugc">your language</a>.</li>
<li>Contribute or submit issues on <a href="https://github.com/gasatrya/recent-posts-widget-extended" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</li>
</ul>


Great for custom types posts widget

This is a very useful plugin that works really well and has lots of filters to customize as needed.

Thanks!!

Super Useful

Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.

RobMarsh

<p>Random Posts displays a list of randomly chosen posts. The output can be customised in <a href="http://rmarsh.com/plugins/post-options/" rel="nofollow ugc">many</a> ways.</p>
<p>This plugin <strong>requires</strong> the latest version of the <em>Post-Plugin Library:</em> <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/post-plugin-library.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">download it now</a>.</p>
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>2.6.2.0
<ul>
<li>new {imagealt} output tag — rather like {imagesrc}</li>
<li>{excerpt} can now trim to whole sentences</li>
<li>content filter can now take parameter string</li>
<li>widget can now take parameter string</li>
<li>output can be appended to posts & feeds</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.6.1.0
<ul>
<li>the current post can be marked manually</li>
<li>widgets now honour the option to show no output if list is empty</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.6.0.1
<ul>
<li>bug fix: installation code was failing on some systems</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.6.0.0
<ul>
<li>version bump to indicate compatibility with WP 2.6</li>
<li>fix to really include attachments</li>
<li>new parameter for {imagesrc} to append a suffix to the image name, e.g. to get the thumbnail for attachments</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.11
<ul>
<li>new option to include attachments</li>
<li>{php} tag now accepts nested tags</li>
<li>new output tag {authorurl} — permalink to archive of author’s posts</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.10
<ul>
<li>fix for page selection in old versions of WP</li>
<li>made omit current post try harder to find current post ID</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.9
<ul>
<li>new option to match the current post’s author</li>
<li>extended options for snippet and excerpt output tags</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.7
<ul>
<li>new option to show by status, i.e., published/private/draft/future</li>
<li>{categorynames} and {categorylinks} apply ‘single_cat_name’ filter</li>
<li>fixes bug in WP pre-2.2 causing installation to fail</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0
<ul>
<li>{image} has new post, link, and default parameters</li>
<li>new {imagesrc} tag</li>
<li>fix to empty category bug</li>
<li>excluded posts bug fix</li>
<li>fix for intermittent bug with ‘omit current post’ option</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b26
<ul>
<li>reverted thumbnail serving (speed)</li>
<li>fix current post after extra query</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b25
<ul>
<li>option to sort output, group templates</li>
<li>removed ‘trim_before’ option added more logical ‘divider’</li>
<li>{date:raw}, {commentdate:raw}, etc.</li>
<li>fix for {image} resizing when  and not </li>
<li>{image} now serves real thumbnails</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b24
<ul>
<li>fix for recursive replacement by content filter</li>
<li>fix to {gravatar} to allow for ‘identicon’ etc.</li>
<li>fix to {commenter} to allow trimming</li>
<li>fix a warning in safe mode</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b23
<ul>
<li>new option to filter on custom fields</li>
<li>nested braces in {if}; condition now taggable</li>
<li>improved bug report feature</li>
<li>better way to omit user comments</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b22
<ul>
<li>fixes for tag bugs</li>
<li>show_pages option can now show only pages</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b19
<ul>
<li>fix for content replacement filter</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b18
<ul>
<li>fix output filter bug</li>
<li>new conditional tag {if:condition:yes:no}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b16
<ul>
<li>fix for {php}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b15
<ul>
<li>fix bugs, add ‘included posts’ setting</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b14
<ul>
<li>fix file-encoding, installation error, etc.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b11
<ul>
<li>some widget fixes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>2.5b9</p>
<ul>
<li>clarifying installation instructions</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://rmarsh.com/plugins/random-posts/" rel="nofollow ugc">previous versions</a></p>
</li>
</ul>


Recent Posts Widget Extended vs Random Posts