Balazs

Weart Category Posts Widget is a small simple, rock solid widget with one only one task: 
Display the latest posts with the most beautiful way from the picked category in the sidebar.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pick a category to display posts.</li>
<li>Set the number of displaying posts.</li>
<li>Featured Images (if it is avalible) for the post with two sizes (full, thumbnail)</li>
<li>Enable excerpts to display.</li>
<li>Turn ON / OFF the Date displaying.</li>
<li>Fully Translateable</li>
<li>Minimal CSS, no JS to not causes any conflict with the theme.</li>
</ul>
<h4>More about me</h4>
<a href="http://weartstudio.eu" rel="nofollow ugc"> I am </a> a WordPress developer, check my website for more information about my works.
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>Hungarian – a Magyar fordítást a bővítmény tartalmazza</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin is localized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/" rel="ugc">“Codestyling Localization” plugin</a> and for validating the <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">“Poedit Editor”</a>.

Weart Category Posts Widget

Weart Category Posts Widget displays the latest posts in the sidebar from a picked category with featured image.

Marzio Carro

Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages.
This plugin addsthe ‘post_tag’ and the ‘category’ taxonomies, which are the names of the existing taxonomies used for tags and categories the Post type ‘page’.
This enables the categories metabox and the tags metabox in the New or Edit Page interface.
The plugin has no settings, does not alter the database and only uses hooks to 
achieve it’s goal. It works perfectly fine with Multisite installations.
This plugin WILL NOT add any display of categories or tags to your template files.
Plugin’s website: <a href="http://technotes.marziocarro.com/category/wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://technotes.marziocarro.com/category/wordpress-plugins/</a>
Author’s website: <a href="http://technotes.marziocarro.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://technotes.marziocarro.com/</a>

Category Tag Pages

Wonderful functionality

Yes, it works. Uses very few lines of code and it's a simple and safe solution to have categories and tags in pages.

It works

Adds categories and tags functionality for your pages.

Weart Category Posts Widget vs Category Tag Pages