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PostSummary allow you to add a widget with a kind of preview of your posts. You can add a list like the newspaper sites 
or a list of posts really similar to adsense style. You can mix your posts and adsense with the same aspect. 
Every instance of the widget is independent and can be configured separately. 
You can choose the categories to be displayed or if the lias is made of the most recent posts or, if you have statpresscn plugin, 
the most read posts.

PostSummary

Postsummary creates a widget that contains a list of posts with title and the beginning of the text. You can style and add a thumbnail.

Brecht

Easily create a Facebook-like link preview for any link on your website. You can choose the image and text to display and create your very own custom template. The default template can be styled from the settings to match your website.
Some examples of what you could use this for:
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<li>A call to action for your affiliate links</li>
<li>Promote WooCommerce products on your website</li>
<li>List sources for your article</li>
<li>A weekly posty of interesting websites you’ve found</li>
<li>Link to related posts on your own website</li>
<li>…</li>
</ul>
It does not require any database lookups, which means even having many of these blocks on a page should not affect performance.
Compatible with both the Classic and Gutenberg Block Editor using shortcodes and blocks.
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Need help? 
 Check out <a href="https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/collection/164-visual-link-preview" rel="nofollow ugc">our documentation</a>!
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This plugin is in active development. Feel free to contact us with any feature requests or ideas.

Visual Link Preview

Display a fully customizable visual link preview for any internal or external link.

PostSummary vs Visual Link Preview