Aaron D. Campbell

Used to create a customizable rotating slideshow highlighting certain posts or 
pages. You can choose which posts or pages are featured by simply checking a 
checkbox on the write posts/page screen. The plugin uses the new post thumbnail 
functionality added in WordPress 2.9.
Requires PHP5.

Featured Content Showcase

Used to create a customizable rotating slideshow highlighting certain posts or pages.  Uses jQuery, which comes with WordPress (no conflicts).

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The Awesome featured posts is a light weight WordPress plugin. It enables custom, flexible and
featured posts. User can see Latest Featured Posts in Simple List View/Slider View. User can
display posts from specific category / tag or multiple categories / tags. User can style the
widget individually.It allows you to display a list of featured posts with/without thumbnail, excerpt,
post date and much more. You can set the size for the thumbnail or just take the standard from your
options. You can also show the excerpt with first 3 or more words and with/without <code>Read More</code> text
option. It allows user to choose where to display posts in website.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Allows to display Featured Posts in two ways: 
a. Simple List View 
b. Using Slider</li>
<li>Most useful feature of this plugin is user can see Latest Featured Posts by setting number of 
months field eg: 2 months / 5 months old posts</li>
<li>Allows to display posts in slider by just Turn On/Off Show Posts In Slider</li>
<li>Allows you to display featured posts from specific category / tag or multiple categories / 
tags</li>
<li>Slider options such as AutoPlay, Pagination, Stop on Hover, Time Interval, Sliding Speed</li>
<li>Allows to set Title</li>
<li>Allows to assign text Before/After Post</li>
<li>Supports Post, Page post type</li>
<li>Supports Offset field</li>
<li>Allows to set number of Posts to display</li>
<li>Order by Date, ID, Parent, Comment Count, Random </li>
<li>Turn On/Off Post Meta field, eg: [post_categories] [post_tags]</li>
<li>Display excerpt, with customizable length and <code>read more...</code> text</li>
<li>Display post date / post modified date / Relative Date. eg: 5 days ago of Post</li>
<li>Display thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment</li>
<li>Choose pages to display posts</li>
<li>Allows to add Custom css to display Featured Posts</li>
</ol>

Awesome Featured Post Widget

sidebar, taxonomy, post meta, plugin, wordpress Requires at least: 4.4.2 Tested up to: 4.7.2 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http …

Featured Content Showcase vs Awesome Featured Post Widget