Category Posts Widget 3.0

This latest update introduces a few new features:

Support for WordPress 2.9’s post thumbnails.
Option to show the post date.
Option to show the comment count.
Option to set the word length of the excerpt.

Note that support for Simple Post Thumbnails has been removed in favor of the built in functionality.
You can download the plugin at the WordPress plugin repository: Download here.
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Category Posts Widget 2.0

Update: Category Posts Widget has been updated to version 3.0!
I just released a long overdue update to Category Posts Widget. At the time of this writing, it has been downloaded over 23,500 times and has an average of 4.5 stars from 22 people!

CPW 2.0 has been included with Press75 themes for sometime now. I haven’t heard any [...]

Category Posts Widget 1.3

Update: Category Posts Widget has been updated to version 3.0!
As promised, I’ve updated Category Posts Widget. Version 1.3 brings one new feature to the table: an option to show a post excerpt. I also converted the widget to the new WordPress 2.5 system of adding multiple widgets so 1.3 will only work on WordPress 2.5 or later. [...]

On the Status of Category Posts Widget

I’ve been getting a few comments everyday about Category Posts Widget lately with suggestions and whatnot. I can assure you that I read them all and I will try to integrate all the features people have asked for. One person has already sent me his modifications which I plan to integrate into the next version.
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