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Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category.

Features:

• [NEW] Option to change ordering of posts.
• Support for displaying thumbnail images via WP 2.9's new post thumbnail feature.
• Set how many posts to show.
• Set which category the posts should come form.
• Option to show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
• Option to show the post date.
• Option to show the comment count.
• Option to make the widget title link to the category page.
• Multiple widgets.