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.

wpoets

Amit Kumar Singh

pateln54

<p>Featured Today allows you to show featured articles or latest articles from a category that you select. It is very simple to use, just place the ‘featured today widget’ in the right widget area, select the category you want to display. It will show featured article in the same way as featured articles are shown on the linkedin today page.</p>
<p>This plugin is brought to you by <a href="http://wpoets.com/" title="WordPress based development shop" rel="nofollow ugc">WPoets</a> development team.</p>
<p>Features</p>
<ul>
<li>Displays as widget</li>
<li>You can set number of articles to show</li>
<li>You can select the category to use</li>
</ul>


Featured Today

Featured Today shows featured articles like it is shown on linkedin today.

Featured Page Widget vs Featured Today