Robert Walaski

Featured posts in Extra Theme (by Elegant Themes) is widget plugin for displaying featured posts in widget area.
<h4>Main Features</h4>
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<li>Featured posts – Filters You can have several widgets of WordPress Popular Posts on your blog, each with its own settings!</li>
<li>Title – Customize widget title as you need</li>
<li>Numer of posts to show – Number of post to display in widget. Posts are ordered by date of publishing or any other order ex. plugin Simple Custom Post Order (https://www.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-post-order/)</li>
<li>Display post date – shows date of post in widget, formated by global settings</li>
<li>Display post thumbnail – shows thumbnail of featured image</li>
<li>Display post category – shows another post meta data in the same line as post date</li>
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Featured Posts Widget for Extra Theme

Featured posts in Extra Theme (by Elegant Themes) is widget plugin for displaying featured posts in widget area.

Lopo Lencastre de Almeida

Sven Schneider

It allows the author to define links to the external websites like Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, Netlog, LinkedIn, Xing, Drupal Association, Vimeo, BranchOut, Youtube, Google+, Skype and WordPress.Org (included) when using <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-box-2/" rel="ugc">Author Box Reloaded</a>. At the front-end those will appear as clickable icons.
Those external websites are very simple plugins and you can check the included ones to see how to make your owns. 
This was a needed move because it is more probable that we have more <code>ABR3 External Contact</code> plugins developed by third parties to be included than to have too much development on original Author Box Reloaded.
Check out the other <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/users/ipublicis/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress plugins</a> by the same author.

Author Box Reloaded  Pack

Adds the Author Box Reloaded External Contact plugins. REQUIRES Author Box Reloaded 2.0.3 or greater.

Featured Posts Widget for Extra Theme vs Author Box Reloaded Pack