spellbit

This plugin shows the latest posts with thumbnail. This has the full control of the content and easily customizable. Widget and shortcode ready.

SB Latest Posts

Nice plugin

Premium Quality but free. It is responsive and easily custimzeable. Video tutorials are given for usage and custimization.

shareaholic

Similar Posts displays a list of posts that are similar or related to the current posts. The list can be customised in many ways. Similarity is judged according to a post’s title, content, and tags and you can adjust the balance of factors to fit your own site.
Few Notable Options
<ul>
<li>complete control over the display & layout of displayed posts</li>
<li>over 30 tags for display template customization</li>
<li>matching of current post’s category, tags, content and author</li>
<li>post excluding by author, ID, category, tags and custom fields</li>
<li>output in posts, widgets and RSS</li>
<li>over 50 options available</li>
</ul>
If you need a plugin that does all the Related Posts compute processing in the cloud, please check out our other <a href="https://shrlc.com/yPInQlI" rel="nofollow ugc">Related Posts & Products WordPress plugin</a>.
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