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I’ve researched and could find settings for the cache behavior of WP_Query(). Not sure if this helps but I will give it a try and do some tests. If this helps I will implement it in one of the next releases. Stay tuned.

Thank you @dorfdimpaler for reaching out.
I do understand your request but unfortunately I can not help with this.
Shortcodes are not provided by default.
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is not using a custom query to get the posts but is following the WordPress standard. I do use new WP_Query() to collect the posts.

Because there is no custom query, I can not add a cache feature. But, the good part ist, I do use the WordPress standards. This gives you the possibility to use the WordPress options to speed up the query.
Did you already check if you can get a persistent caching system, such as Memcached, enabled on your server?

Beside this I will add a note on our roadmap for the plugin and I will check for an upcoming release if and how I can improve the query. But, nothing I can promise today.
Hope you understand.

@aerolin The way I understand this, you want to select the last 5 posts to get a series of random posts out of them. Right?
No, this is not possible. Random means to get random posts of all posts. There is no limitation.

Hi @marsm2.
You need some CSS skills to do it. You need to figure out the CSS for your H2 and add them for the class rpwwt-post-title.
Unfortunately I can not support this more detailed. It is related to your theme and each theme is different.
So, best ist to ask somebody around you for help.

Hi @aerolin.
Yes, you can check the checkbox “Show posts in random order?” to get the posts displayed in random order. It is the second checkbox below Display Options of the widget.

@jcaporso I can not see an issue at the provided url.
Could you explain more in detail, please?!

Hi @jeffhilles.
I’ve checked your provided website and could see, there is a line-height: 2.4; for your .widget ul li.
Add this CSS to your child theme or your customizer:
.rpwwt-widget ul li { line-height: 1.4; }
and change the line height value to your preferred value.
Hope it helps.

Hi @mauzerizzz.
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails does not support offest. But, this feature is provided by our plugin Ultimate Post List. This allows customized post lists. Would you give it a try?

Hi @larissaswayze.
I assume you were able to fix your problem. If not, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Hi @swb1.
Thank you for your input.
I added your request to our feature list and will send you an update when it is available.

Hi @starbuck.
You should give it a try. The args before_title and after_title should help you.

Hi @jeffhilles.
I’m not sure what exactly you want to achieve.
The provided URL is the one to your WordPress backend.
The style is based on your theme. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is not providing its own style.
The title has a span with the class rpwwt-post-title. This should help you to style the title more individual.
Hope that helps.

Hello @marsm2.
I assume you are looking for the heading size of the post title, right?
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails is not providing its own CSS so, what you see is based on the theme style.
But you can add your own CSS for the class rpwwt-post-title for changeing the style.
Same class is usefull to move the post title above the image.
Hope that helps.

Thank you, @doc-savage ??

@nanske As I saw on the provided link it is working, now.