edeneye

Breaking Bar is a simple plugin which monitors any chosen category for posts. If there are posts in that category, 
the plugin displays (via the [breaking-bar] shortcode) a prominent bar with the latest post from that category. 
If there are no posts in the chosen category, Breaking Bar stays hidden. Once the shortcode is in place, this allows 
editors and authors to add posts to the Breaking Bar simply by properly categorizing the post.
Current options include:
<ul>
<li>Category selection</li>
<li>A text field for a custom label, (e.g. “Breaking” or “Latest”)</li>
<li>Color options for background, label(text) and link</li>
</ul>

Breaking Bar

A simple breaking news bar that monitors a chosen category and is displayed via a shortcode.

Fumiki Takahashi

TAROSKY INC.

This plugin add “External Link” section to your editor.
If your posts are used as news in your site, sometimes a post is titled simply “Our service is promoted in famous web magazine” and just having a single link to PR site.
This plugin will add a meta box to save metadata below:
<ol>
<li>External link</li>
<li>Open in new window</li>
</ol>
If you set external link, <code>the_permalink</code> will be replaced with it. The link in your widget, post archive, and so on will refer to the URL you saved.

Taro External Permalink

A WordPress plugin to allow some posts to have external permalink.

Breaking Bar vs Taro External Permalink