Smart recent posts shows the recent posts from your wordpress blog
This plugin contains a widget for showing off the recent posts from your wordpress blog.
With this plugin you can choose number of posts to display, display featured image, dimensions of featured image, posts order, select the categories also. We will adding more options in the next version.
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
e.g.
smart-recent-post
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directorySmart Recent Post
Enable the plugin and place the widget in the sidebar (where you wants)