Related Posts Widget 1.0

Related Posts Widget shows a list of posts with similar tags to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. That is, it is only shown when is_single() returns true.
Features:

Support for displaying thumbnail images via WP 2.9’s new post thumbnail feature.
Set how many posts to show.
Option to show the post excerpt and [...]

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.
Please [...]

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. [...]

Category Posts Widget 1.2.1

By request, I added an option to make the widget title a link to the category page. You can turn this option on and off in the configuration dialog of the widget. It’s a simple checkbox.
I’ll add an option for post excerpts in the near future when I get my main laptop up and running again. [...]

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.
The next [...]

Category Posts Widget 1.2

I tried to think of some new features to add to the Category Posts Widget, but I couldn’t think of anything worth adding. Instead I fixed some bugs and tweaked how the plugin behaves.
Changes:

Fixed widget options save bug where title had to be specified in order to save options.
If no title is specified, the name of [...]