Can “Recent Posts” widget be filtered by functions.php?

Unfortunately there is no filter for WP_Query args in WP_Widget_Recent_Posts class, so it’s impossible. I think there are plugins for recent post that have category filtering option – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/recent-posts

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