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Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/ultimate-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget</a>. 
(this trick works for all plugins in the WP repo – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the URL)
UPDATE: Plugin ownership changed for this plugin. We are currently evaluating possible enhancements for it. Stay tuned! If you have any suggestions yourself, please let us know in the Support Forum.
Note: This is a classic widget type, in order for it to work on the latest version of WordPress you will need <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/" rel="ugc">Classic Widgets</a> plugin installed on your site.
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options to customize the display.
Designed for both the average user and developer, Ultimate Posts Widgets aims to provide flexibility and ease of use for displaying any kinds of posts within your widget areas. An array of widget options are available as well as hooks, filters and custom templates for more advanced customization.
<h4>Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Filter by categories</li>
<li>Filter by current category</li>
<li>Filter by tags</li>
<li>Filter by current tag</li>
<li>Filter by custom post types</li>
<li>Filter by sticky posts</li>
<li>Select number of posts to display</li>
<li>Display title</li>
<li>Display publish date/time with custom format options</li>
<li>Display post author and link</li>
<li>Display post comment count</li>
<li>Display excerpt or full content</li>
<li>Display read more link with custom label</li>
<li>Display featured image and at any size</li>
<li>Display post categories</li>
<li>Display post tags</li>
<li>Display custom fields</li>
<li>Add text or HTML before and after posts list</li>
<li>Add CSS class to widget</li>
<li>Add widget title link</li>
<li>Change excerpt length (in words)</li>
<li>Order by date, title, number of comments, random or a custom field</li>
<li>Exclude current post from the list</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ tab</a> for documentation on custom templates, hooks, common issues, and more.
<h4>Support</h4>
For help please ask in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-posts-widget/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a>
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Ultimate Posts Widget

The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.

Luis Rodrigues

Sticky posts for WordPress, improved.
This plugin addresses the following issues and limitations found in the core’s implementation of sticky posts:
<ul>
<li>Only the core <code>post</code> type supports this feature.</li>
<li>Sticky posts are added in front of your homepage’s results, yielding more posts than the configured per-page setting.</li>
<li>Sticky posts reappear as you navigate further into the archive.</li>
<li>Sticky posts are prepended to your results when querying specific posts with <code>post__in</code>.</li>
<li>Difficult to include sticky posts in custom queries.</li>
</ul>
Some of these issues cause strange behaviour (like when using the REST API) and complicate the creation of custom homepage layouts.
At one point we decided to stop fighting the core and partially reimplemented the feature using custom post fields and meta queries, giving you:
<ul>
<li>Sticky posts for all non-hierarchical post types.</li>
<li>Post stickiness on post type and taxonomy archives.</li>
<li>Respect for your configured per-page setting, with stickies spilling over onto the next page.</li>
<li>Duplicates filtered from your archive pages.</li>
<li>The ability to sort by stickiness on virtually any <code>WP_Query</code> lookup.</li>
<li>Support for the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_sticky/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>is_sticky()</code></a> function.</li>
<li>A predictable WordPress REST API experience.</li>
<li>A slight SQL query overhead (sorry!)</li>
</ul>
Post Glue will continue to save post IDs to the <code>sticky_posts</code> option, meaning you’ll retain some core functionality even if you decide to stop using the plugin.
Please follow and contribute to Post Glue’s development on <a href="https://github.com/log-oscon/post-glue" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.

Ultimate Posts Widget vs Post Glue