An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.
Features Include:
- Display post thumbnails, with customizable size.
- Display post excerpt, author, comment count, and more.
- Provides options to trim the number of characters in the title and excerpt.
- Override the post order to order by; date modified, title, post ID, random, comment count etc.
- Exclude or include specific posts, authors, tags, or categories.
- Also includes a simple template parser so you can override the default output making custom styling easy.
Documentation
See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/