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This widget is combining and inspired by two great plugin, recent post flexslider and flexible posts widget, but using different slider. We use liquidslider that fit with this widgets purpose.
<h4>Features & options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable widget title</li>
<li>Get posts using either a selectable category or custom post type.</li>
<li>Set the number of page displayed (using slider).</li>
<li>Set the number of columns and row per page displayed.</li>
<li>Easily set your own image width and height.</li>
<li>Set the padding for each post.</li>
<li>Select the sort orderby: Date, ID, Title, Menu Order, Random and sort order: ASC or DESC.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
Example Use: [pj_apw post_title=”true” excerpt_length=”50″ categories=”all” thumbnail=”true” img_width=”250″ img_height=”150″ rows=”2″ columns=”1″ pages_number=”2″ template=”amaz-columns.php”]
Check out our demo : 
1. <a href="http://themeforest.net/item/raddin-elegant-responsive-wordpress-themes/6568509?ref=hainug" rel="nofollow ugc">demo1</a> 
2. <a href="http://wp.themesoul.com/nyirok/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo2</a>
Work great with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/" rel="ugc">Page Builder by SiteOrigin</a>
If you get an error after updating this plugin, please go to appearance > widget > and just save it, 
or if you need to edit the padding, you may edit it first, than save it.

Amazing Posts Widget

Display Posts on widget with amazing way, It's really suitable with your blog or portfolio.

Samuel Aguilera

NOTE: This plugin functionality is guaranteed by more than 10,000 active installs. But before installing this plugin bear in mind that its only purpose is to ADD the feature image ID to your post (in the same way that you would do using WP editor), it does not remove ANYTHING after deactivation. 
Before asking for support please read <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-read-before-posting-4" rel="ugc">this support thread</a>
<h4>How it works?</h4>
Checks if the post (any post type with thumbnail support, including pages) has already a featured image associated, and if not sets it using one of the following methods:
<ol>
<li>
Dynamically, for old published posts, the featured images are set only when needed to show them in the frontend. This means that the featured image is set (only first time) when a visitor loads the page where it needs to be shown.
</li>
<li>
For new content, the featured image is set in the publishing process.
</li>
</ol>
No options page to setup, simply install and activate.
If you want to exclude certain post type (e.g. pages), you can do it by using a filter. See <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> for more details.
Easy Add Thumbnail doesn’t add any plugin data to your WordPress database. It simply adds the _thumbnail_id meta key with the ID of the attachment to be used as feature image (just the same that WordPress does when you set it manually).
Therefore it requires to have attached/uploaded at least one image to the post. If there’s not any image attached to the post, this plugin can’t help you.
Easy Add Thumbnail has not any control over how/when/where your featured image is displayed in your site, the display of the featured image in your site is TOTALLY controlled by your theme, this includes size, position, display it or not…
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.7 or higher.</li>
<li>PHP 5.6 or higher.</li>
</ul>

Easy Add Thumbnail

Automatically sets the featured image to the first image uploaded into the post (any post type with thumbnail support). So easy like that...

Amazing Posts Widget vs Easy Add Thumbnail