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.

Eduard Milushi

This plugin will generate a widget for you website where you can show latest posts of your blog with thumbnails and choose to show ads between posts for every X post(you choose it ), you can select to show or hide post date, comments count and the total number of posts to be shown, when the widget is active on single post view the current post will be ignored from the list. All posts are sorted by latest post date. As well you have a text area where you can add you’r ads code, html and js is accepted so you can put your banner or any google ads code.

Latest Posts With Thumbnails and Ads

Just like the default Recent Posts widget except that posts are with thumbnails and you can show ads between them, show post date and comments count.

Redirect to Category Latest Post vs Latest Posts With Thumbnails and Ads