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.

i.lychkov

Highlight unread posts on your blog.
Key features:
<ul>
<li>Works right out of the box</li>
<li>Uses cookies, no authorization required</li>
<li>4 different types of markers for highlighting posts (a “new” text label, 
an orange circle, etc.)</li>
<li>Customizable background color for unread post titles</li>
</ul>
There’s a setting to determine when a post should be considered read. You can pick one of the following:
<ul>
<li>after it was opened</li>
<li>after it was displayed in the post list</li>
<li>after opening any page of the blog</li>
</ul>
Functions available for theme developers:
<ul>
<li>mnp_is_new_post($post) – check if a post is unread</li>
<li>mnp_new_posts_count($query) – get unread posts count</li>
</ul>

Featured Post with thumbnail vs Mark New Posts