Advanced Recent Posts Widget is a light widget advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from multiple categories or from custom post types.
Features:
- Display post thumbnails, with customizable size and automatic resizing using timthumb script.
- Display post excerpt, date, comment count, and more.
- Provides option to:
***show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
***show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
***show the post date.
***show read more link
***show the comment count.
***override the post order to order by; date, title, random, comment count etc.
***select multiple categories
***select custom post type - Multiple widgets.