Giustino Borzacchiello

nandopappalardo

This plugin let’s you add – to any spot on your blog’s sidebar – a section dedicated to the articles you’d like to highlight. How it works is very simple: once it’s installed and activated you can decide which articles to add to the highlights section, how many to display, the display order mode and the size of the image retrieved (it takes the first image in the article and automatically resizes it using the “timthumb.php” script).
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Some Features
<ul>
<li>Specify a title to be shown on the sidebar.</li>
<li>Choose the number of articles to display in this section.</li>
<li>Choose the way in which the articles will be ordered.</li>
<li>Define the dimensions of the image that will be created.</li>
</ul>

Featured Post with thumbnail

A really simple way of putting featured posts on your website.

dflydev

This project is available for forking on GitHub:
<ul>
<li>https://github.com/dflydev/embed-github-gist</li>
</ul>
Embed <a href="http://github.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> <a href="http://gist.github.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Gists</a> into 
WordPress. Provides a shortcode for posts and pages but also has the ability 
to embed by hand in the event that a Gist needs to be embedded somewhere in 
the page that does not pass through the shortcode filters.
Examples:
<pre><code>[gist id=546764]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt bump=1]
[gist]http://gist.github.com/546764[/gist]
</code></pre>
Cache is implemented with the Transients API to minimize delay on loading 
content. Default TTL (time to live) is 86400 seconds or one day.
<h4>Upcoming features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option for setting default TTL</li>
<li>Option to bypass cache entirely</li>
<li>Implement admin interface to control options</li>
</ul>

Featured Post with thumbnail vs Embed GitHub Gist