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.

Vitor Carvalho

<p>Add functionalities for your media library:</p>
<ul>
<li>Organize media files with categories</li>
<li>Add PDF and Document mime types support</li>
<li>Adjust JPEG quality percentage (from 0 to 100) thus increase image quality</li>
<li>Crop and resize uploaded images</li>
<li>Add more file types support (documents, spreadsheets, video, audio, flash, ZIP (packages) and more image types)</li>
<li>Support for PDF and all type of documents organization</li>
</ul>
<p>Common Supported file extensions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Images: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, tiff, wpmb, svg, swf (flash)</li>
<li>Documents: pdf, doc, docx, wri, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, and all OASIS OpenDocument standard extensions</li>
<li>Text: txt, csv, plain, HTML, XML, CSS, …</li>
<li>Video: asf, wmv, avi, mov, qt, mpg, mpeg, mp4, …</li>
<li>Audio: mp3, m4a, ra, ram, wav, ogg, midi, wma, …</li>
<li>Packages: zip, rar, 7z, iso, img, tar, gz, deb, rpm, …</li>
<li>Generic: mo, po, fla, ttf, woff, bmp, ico, …</li>
</ul>
<p>Just install this plugin and adjust to your needs.</p>
<h4>Provided Custom Hooks</h4>
<p>This plugin provides 2 custom filters:</p>
<p>1) Change labels and other arguments passed to register_taxonomy function:<br />
    add_filter( ‘media_category_args’, ‘my_media_category_args’ );</p>
<p>2) Hooks inside the category postbox HTML used to edit individual file information:<br />
    add_filter( ‘media_category_html’, ‘my_media_category_html’ );</p>
<p>The use of these hooks are recommended, thus, if the plugin gets deactivated, those hooks will not be called anymore and then you get things consistent and clean.</p>
<p>Do you want to translate it to your language? Just reply to the «Translations» topic in the forum.</p>


Media Features

Adds category organization, file type filter/browser, uploaded image resize, crop and JPEG quality controllers.

Featured Page Widget vs Media Features