CUNY Academic Commons

Ron Rennick

This plugin adds a Gallery Posts menu to your WordPress dashboard. To add content to the rotating gallery:
<ol>
<li>Add a new Gallery Post for each image/headline to be shown in the rotating gallery</li>
<li>Attach one or more images to the gallery post by uploading the image(s) with the media uploader while editing the post</li>
<li>Enter the title & content that you would like to overlay the image</li>
<li>Publish the post(s)</li>
<li>Add the Rotating Post Gallery widget to widget area on your home page</li>
<li>Enter the number of Posts to rotate in the gallery (default = All).</li>
<li>Choose the size of image to display in the gallery (based on your Media Settings)</li>
</ol>
When multiple images are attached to a Gallery Post one of the images is randomly selected to be shown on each page view.
In the initial verion, you will have to add some CSS to your theme’s stylesheet:
<pre><code>.slideshow {
 width: 123px;
 height: 456px;
}
</code></pre>
Substitute 123 & 456 with the width & height in your Media Settings.
This plugin was written by <a href="http://ronandandrea.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ron Rennick</a> in collaboration with the <a href="http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/" rel="nofollow ugc">CUNY Academic Commons</a>.
<a href="http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/post-gallery-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Page</a>

Post Gallery Widget

A rotating gallery widget using a custom post type for gallery content.

Johan van der Wijk

The <a href="http://www.vanderwijk.com/wordpress/wordpress-custom-post-widget/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=custom_post_widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Content Blocks</a> allows you to display the contents of a specific custom post in a widget on in the content area using a shortcode.
Even though you could use the text widget that comes with the default WordPress install, this plugin has some major benefits:
<ul>
<li>The Content Blocks plugin enables users to use the WYSIWYG editor for editing the content and adding images.</li>
<li>If you are using the standard WordPress text widgets to display content on various areas of your template, this content can only be edited by users with administrator access. If you would like non-administrator accounts to modify the widget content, you can use this plugin to provide them access to the custom posts that provide the content for the widget areas.</li>
<li>You can even use the featured image functionality to display them in a widget.</li>
<li>The Content Blocks plugin is compatible with the WPML Multi-Language plugin and automatically shows the correct language in the widget area.</li>
<li>The Content Blocks can be included in posts and pages using the built-in shortcode functionality.</li>
</ul>
This plugin creates a ‘content_block’ custom post type. You can choose to either display the title on the page or use it to describe the contents and widget position of the content block. Note that these content blocks can only be displayed in the context of the page. I have added ‘public’ => false to the custom post type which means that it is not accessible outside the page context.
To add content to a widget, drag it to the required position in the sidebar and select the title of the custom post in the widget configuration.
Includes the following translations:
<ul>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE) by <a href="http://krokedil.se" rel="nofollow ugc">Andreas Larsson</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) by <a href="https://www.ibidemgroup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">IBIDEM GROUP</a></li>
<li>Portuguese (pt_BR) by Ronaldo Chevalier</li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL) by Kuba Skublicki</li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) by <a href="https://vanderwijk.nl" rel="nofollow ugc">Johan van der Wijk</a></li>
<li>Czech (cs_CZ) by <a href="http://jsemweb.cz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Martin Kucera</a></li>
</ul>
<a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/custom-post-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">More translations are very welcome!</a>

Content Blocks (Custom Post Widget)

I was looking for something like this that goes perfectly with page builder based on widgets. Easy to use, simple and gets the job done.

Simple and effective

This plugin enables you to edit and display Content Blocks in a sidebar widget or using a shortcode.

Post Gallery Widget vs Content Blocks (Custom Post Widget)