Many of us use WordPress to run a single blog. But some of us do run blog networks based on this platform. WordPress is more than capable of handling your blog network. Thanks to plugins such as Network Latest Posts, you can get even more out of your network. It displays the latest posts from your network and displays them in your main site.
The idea behind this plugin is simple: it saves you time displaying the posts from all the blogs in your network on your main site. You can do so using widgets and shortcodes. You can choose which blogs to choose from, time frame, post numbers, and other settings. In order to use this plugin, you are going to need a multi-site install with multiple blogs.
Network Latest Posts shows the latest posts from the blogs in your WordPress network. It gives you multiple ways to do so. It is a time saver.