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.

Chris Hardie

Generates a printable PDF newspaper from post content. Great for distributing your articles and posts in a print format for offline audiences.
To use, from the admin area of your site, select what content you want to include (supports posts, pages or custom post types and you can filter by tag or category), how many items, whether to truncate the body content (or excerpt) at a certain character length, how many columns to format with, and which fields to display. You can even upload a “masthead” header image for a more authentic newspaper feel, and the plugin can automatically generate QR codes to allow link scanning with a mobile phone camera.
Download the resulting PDF or save it to your media library for easy public linking and sharing.
This plugin does not require any remote PDF generation services or subscriptions to create the printable PDF file, everything is done within the plugin itself.
Credit to <a href="https://tcpdf.org" rel="nofollow ugc">TCPDF</a> for the PDF generation library and <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik" rel="nofollow ugc">Freepik</a> for the plugin icon.
<h4>Contributing</h4>
Feature suggestions, bug reports and pull requests on <a href="https://github.com/ChrisHardie/printable-pdf-newspaper" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> are welcome.

Printable PDF Newspaper

Generates a printable PDF newspaper from post content.

Featured Category Widget vs Printable PDF Newspaper