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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.