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If you need to place some Advertisements on your blog, but you don’t need other stats, than those from your adprovider and you don’t want to have ads in your posts, this is the solution. You can define the widget style yourself or you can leave it to your theme. Show your ads on every type of page or just on the frontpage. Keep your registered users adfree when they are logged in if you want. If you use Google AdSense, you can wrap the AdSense tags automatically around your loop, header, footer and / or sidebars. In the editor, you have a button appearing, that will wrap content in the Google ignore tags. Simply select some text and press the button, the shortcode will do the rest for you.
Ads Easy was tested up to WP 4.5. It should work with versions down to 2.7 but was never tested on those.

Ads Easy

Ads Easy is the most simple way to integrate some banners into your blog. It works with basically everything and is AdSense optimized.

Edward Caissie

Plugin with multi-widget functionality that displays most recent posts from specific category or categories (set with user options). Also includes user options to display: Category Description; Author and meta details; comment totals; post categories; post tags; and either full post, excerpt, or your choice of the amount of words (or any combination). Please make sure to read the latest changelog for new and modified features and options. 
* Copyright 2009-2016 Edward Caissie (email : edward.caissie@gmail.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, 
 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
You may NOT assume that you can use any other version of the GPL.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
 GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
The license for this software can also likely be found here: 
 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
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<li>Please note, support may be available on the WordPress Support forums; but, it may be faster to visit http://buynowshop.com/plugins/bns-featured-category/ and leave a comment with the issue you are experiencing.</li>
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BNS Featured Category

Displays most recent posts from a specific featured category or categories.

Ads Easy vs BNS Featured Category