emma2334

This plugin makes redirecting category menu item to the latest post in it easy by just clicking a checkbox in admin page.
Adding query <code>?latest</code> to any category url, and it will redirect to the latest post in the category. As long as the redirection option is on, category menu items will be replace into links of latest posts.
Also, pull requests are welcome, check it out on <a href="https://github.com/emma2334/wp-latest-post-in-category" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
[IMPORTANT] Make sure you have any kinds of walker extension code or pluins to customied menu fields in your wordpress, since the plugin doesn’t include this part. The easiest way is to install <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-item-custom-fields/" rel="ugc">Menu Item Custom Fields by Dzikri Aziz</a>.

Redirect to Category Latest Post

Redirect category menu item to the latest post in it.

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
</code></pre>

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.

Redirect to Category Latest Post vs LATEST-POST-NEW