Recent Posts Plus

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.

Documentazione

See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/