GrandSlambert

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

Have you ever wanted to highlight a valuable comment among all others? Or not let that troll 6-paragraphs comment take more space than it deserve? Or even hide a whole thread of offtipics?
Well, now you can!
<a href="http://hikari.ws/featured-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hikari Featured Comments</a> is a simple plugin that adds 3 new custom fields to comments, allowing you to add special properties to each of them.
With this feature available, you can query any comment to know if it has any of those properties flagged, and if so you can take special actions within your theme or another plugin.
<h4>Features</h4>
There are 3 special properties available, you can give them any semantic you like, but default meanings are as follows: 
* Featured: a comment flagged as featured should be highlighted from all others. You can give it special CSS styles from your theme to make it more visible among all comments, and flag any valuable comment as so. 
* Buried: a buried comment is a comment you don’t wanna just delete, but also don’t want it as visible as all others. You can use it to hide offtopic comments which you don’t want to perpetuate. 
* Children/Threaded buried: this one has similar meaning to the former, but it should be applied to nested/threaded/children comments of the flagged comment.
Note that any comment can be independently flagged as Buried and Children buried, therefore a Children buried comment shouldn’t have special styles applied to itself. In the same way, you can also have a featured AND buried comment, having both styles should be applied together!
Hikari Featured Comments provides a special metabox in comment edit page (/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&c=XXXX) where you can flag these properties, and it automatically attach new classes (<code>featured</code>, <code>buried</code>, <code>children_buried</code>) to comments in frontend.

Hikari Featured Comments

It adds 3 new custom fields to comments (Featured, Buried, Children buried), allowing you to add special properties to each of them.

Featured Page Widget vs Hikari Featured Comments