Habibie

With this plugin you can show a widget containing most recent posts list. With it’s shortcode feature, it will help you to show the most recent post in a specific category by placing the shortcode anywhere on your website, such as posts and pages.
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WAD Recent Posts

Simple and clean widget for showing recent posts list. It also has shortcode feature.

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Description:Displays a list with posts and custom size thumbnails(for the first attached or featured image), linked to each post permalink. You can configure it as multiple widgets or short code.
You can choose(parameters are not required, see screen shot 2) list orientation, display only images, display the post date, date format, display the post title, category, the number of posts, number of registers per line(for horizontal orientation), the table width, the thumbnails dimensions, the table cellpadding and cellspacing and the columns layout. See it working on http://www.wpworking.com/posts-list/
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The result div is on div id gplwt_container, table id div_postlist so you can play with css 
Configure as widget or shortcode
Very important: the pagination feature is a beta feature, under development
[gplt nocats =”” ptype=”post” ttpos=”b” orient=”h” imgo=”false” ttgo=”true” dtgo=”true” dtfrm=”1″ categ=”” postnr=”100″ linn=”3″ divwid=”300″ tbwid=”90″ tbhig=”90″ cp=”4″ cs=”4″ lwt=”2″ tte=”” sptb=”false” tgtb=”false” ordm=”DESC” ordf=”ID” metk=”” mett=”” pgin=”” ptype=”post” dexcp=”false” gptb=”false”]
Parameters
NoPsts: comma-separated ids from the posts you want to exclude, default=” 
NoCats: comma-separated ids from the categories you want to exclude, default=” 
Post Type: all posts types, singular name, default=posts 
Widget Title Position: b for before, a for after. default =b 
Orientation: orient=”v” // v = Vertical , h = Horizontal default ‘v’ 
Display only images: imgo=”false” // true, false default ‘false’ 
Display post title: ttgo=”false” // true, false default ‘false’ 
Display post date: dtgo=”false” // true, false default ‘false’ 
Date Format: dtfrm=”1″ // 1 – d/m/y , 2 – m/d/y default ‘1’ 
Category Slug: categ=” // leave out or blank for all categories default=” 
Number of Posts: postnr=”20″ //default=20 
Number of registers per line: linn=”3″ //default=3 only for horizontal orientation 
Table result width: divwid=300 // default=300 
Thumbnails Width: tbwid=”40″ //default = 40 
Thumbnails Height: tbhig=”40″ //default = 40 
Result Table Cellpadding: cp=”4″ // default= 4 
Result Table Cellspacing: cs=”4″ // default= 4 
Column layout: lwt = 1 // default= 1 
Widget(or list) title: tte= “” // default=”” 
Suppress Thumbnails: sptb=”false” // true, false default ‘false’ 
Target links to a blank page/tab: tgtb=”false” // true, false default ‘false’ 
Order: ordm = “DESC” // DESC, ASC default ‘DESC’ 
Order By: ordf = “ID” // ID, Date, Title, Random default ‘ID’ 
Custom Field Key: metk = “” // default ” 
Custom Field Values Type: mett = “” // n(numeric),t(text) default ‘n’ numeric 
Registers per Page(beta feature): pgin = “” // default= ” 
Post Type: ptype=”post” // default=’post’ ‘post’ or ‘page’ 
Display Excerpt: dexcp=”false” // true, false default ‘false’ 
Get featured image(instead of first image): gptb=”false” // true, false default ‘false’
If you have any questions, please let me know wpworking@wpworking.com
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Get Post List With Thumbnails

Description:Displays a list with posts and custom size thumbnails(for the first attached or featured image), linked to each post permalink.

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