GrandSlambert

<p>Allows you to feature pages on your sidebar using an excerpt of the page and a text or image link to the page.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Feature posts for a selected category, or by selecting individual pages.</li>
<li>Added support for custom templates – includes 4 different templates.</li>
<li>Added support for custom post types.</li>
<li>Added support for post thumbnails.</li>
<li>Added an option to set what tags are allowed in excerpts.</li>
<li>Supports loading pages with the WPML plugin (for multi-langauge sites).</li>
<li>Set up a random featured page by selecting multiple pages on the widget form.</li>
<li>Added option to hide the widget if only one page is selected and user is viewing that page.</li>
<li>Allows multiple widgets each featuring a different page.</li>
<li>Use the page title or enter your own title for each widget.</li>
<li>Option to link the widget title to the page.</li>
<li>Uses an excerpt of your page or predefined text stored in the “featured-text” custom field.</li>
<li>Set a default excerpt length which you can override for each widget.</li>
<li>Adds a text link under the content, or uses the image in the “featured-link” custom field to link to the page.</li>
<li>Choose alignment of link text or image in widget.</li>
<li>Add an image using the “featured-image” custom field and set the alignment in the widget.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin includes the following translations. Translations listed with no translator were created by the plugin developer using Google Translate. If you can improve these, you can get your name listed here!</p>
<ul>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>


Featured Page Widget

Allows you to feature pages on your sidebar using an excerpt of the page and a text or image link to the page.

tepelstreel

<p>The Advanced Featured Post Widget does, what the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-feature-widget" rel="ugc">Featured Post Widget</a> is doing also; it’s a customizable multi-widget, that displays a single post in the widget area. You can decide, whether or not the post thumbnail is displayed, whether the post title is above or beneath the thumbnail and a couple of more things. And of course, you can style the widget individually.</p>
<p>So far that is the same as my Featured Post Widget does also. Not every theme has the possibility to hide certain sidebars on different pages. That’s where the advanced of our plugin comes in. In the AFPW you can determine, where exactly the widget is showing and in the settings you can customize the links of your widget(s).</p>


Advanced Featured Post Widget

With the Advanced Featured Post Widget you can put a certain post (or post type) in the focus and style it differently.

Featured Page Widget vs Advanced Featured Post Widget