Johan van der Wijk

The Recent Posts Widget Plus plugin allows you to display a list of the most recent posts from all or a specific category or tag. It not only shows the post title, but also an excerpt of the post.

Uvais

Using Recent post widget You can select the post type from available custom post type or post and display it in side bar. 
options included here
<pre><code>1. Select the Thumbnail
2. Custom CSS classes
3. Thumbnail Display or not 
4. width and height of the thumbnail
5. Display comment number
6. Display the date of the post
7. Weather to display read more or not
5. Change the read more text
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LATEST-POST-NEW

Using  Recent post widget  You can select the post type from available custom post type or post and display it in side bar.

Recent Posts Widget Plus vs LATEST-POST-NEW