Clint

mattlsmith

is a widget/plugin that helps connect blogs blogs around the World. The widget is a content aggregator for blog articles. The aggregator takes content from the highest quality blogs and presents the titles and a brief summary within the widget.
The widget has a special crawler that goes to a pre-set list of blogs that are selected based on content quality. It then takes the title of the latest articles written by that blog and populates the widget sitting on the installer’s website. Articles within the widget are then ranked based on a variety of social media factors to present only the best freshest articles.
The goal of it to help users and publishers to discover new content and readers.
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Dell EDU Connect

is a widget/plugin that helps connect  blogs around the World.

MortenPeterAndersen

A very simple news plugin that output news. 
(img, title, date, excerpt and link)
<ul>
<li>News are order by pub date.</li>
<li>A post type “NEWS” is added.</li>
<li>Shortcodes</li>
</ul>
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Shortcodes 
 All shortcodes can combines! 
 * [news] 
 Number: 
 * [news number=2] 
 Offset: 
 * [news offset=3] 
 Order: 
 * [news order=desc] – default 
 * [news order=asc] 
 Categories: 
 * [news cat=1] 
 * [news cat=1,2,4] 
 Columns / grid (CSS grid styling): 
 * [news col=2] 
 * [news col=3] 
 * [news col=4] 
 * Related (Print this shortcode on the single news sidebar, and it shows news in the same category): 
 * [news type=related]
Shortcode page design examples 
 * 2 – 4 grid: 
 * [news number=2 col=2] [news col=4 offset=2] 
 2 – 4 grid (only category 3) : 
 * [news number=2 col=2 cat=3] [news col=4 offset=2 cat=3]
</blockquote>

Simple News

A very simple news plugin that output news.

Dell EDU Connect vs Simple News