Advanced Recent Posts Widget free WordPress plugin

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.