aaron_carmen

Easily configure this and you can choose what custom post type and amount of post you want to display intro widget area of your site.
A few notes about the sections above:
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<li>You can create custom titles</li>
<li>You can choose from what Custom Post Types to display</li>
<li>You can set how many posts you wish to display</li>
<li>You can choose whether or not to display the post title and the excerpt along with the feature image</li>
<li>You can choose from predefined image sizes, or set custom width and height</li>
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You can choose whether or not to link the post to new tab
Plans for future releases prior to v1.1 
Please feel free to put some comments about the plugin, of what i missed, need to upgrade and bugs.
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AC Simple Post Widget

Provide both widgets and shortcode to help you display your post on your website.

mikakaltoft

Instead of shifting to the text editor, inserting the < hr > tag, shifting back to the visual editor, with a chance that you delete the < hr > tag by mistake. You can now simply add shortcode [hr] anywhere, and multiple times, in your content in the Visual Editor to insert a horizontal line.
This will make your content mark-up mucher easier to read and manage in the backend.
Additionally you can also add top and buttom margin to the horizontal line. Please see the FAQ for more information how to do it using shortcode parameters.

Horizontal Line Shortcode

Tired of using  tags in the Text Editor? Now you can simply add shortcode [hr] to your content in the Visual Editor to insert a horizontal line.

AC Simple Post Widget vs Horizontal Line Shortcode