tepelstreel

The Featured Category Widget is mainly designed because there were people for whom the Featured Post Widget was not enough. They wanted to put a category of their blog in the highlight. 
If there is a post thumbnail, it will be displayed above the headline of the post. If there is no thumbnail, the first picture of the post is taken. You can set the size for the thumbnail or just take the standard from your options. Decide yourself, whether you want to show the excerpt, saved with your post or just the first three sentences or the first twenty words of the post. Style the widget individually, ready.
The Featured Category was tested up to WP 4.5. It should work with versions down to 2.9 but was never tested on those.

Featured Category Widget

The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.

paperlit

The Paperlit WordPress Plugin extracts your collection of posts as a HPub file, which is compatible with the Paperlit platform. You can create an interactive digital magazine using WordPress as your CMS!
With Paperlit, publishers can 
– Distribute their publication with a mobile app 
– Categorise their content in single or multi-publication issues 
– Connect live feeds to share exclusive content from their website or blog 
– Publish their app on the App Store and Google Play 
– Monetise their content with in-app purchase or advertising 
– Distribute a digital version of their publication in a state-of-the art, mobile-friendly reader
Using Paperlit, you can preview your app on your mobile device before publishing with the Paperlit Previewer App. 
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/paperlit-previewer/id1044634817" rel="nofollow ugc">Download from App Store</a> 
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paperlit.android.previewer" rel="nofollow ugc">Download from Google Play</a>
The Paperlit WordPress plugin is based on <a href="https://press-room.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pressroom</a>.

Paperlit

The Paperlit WordPress Plugin extracts your collection of posts as a HPub file, which is compatible with the Paperlit platform.

Featured Category Widget vs Paperlit