Eric Marden

<p>A custom plugin that will display dynamic text from the values you enter in special custom fields on a post inside of a WordPress Widget.</p>
<p>Add any text you want as the value of the ‘posty’ custom field and it will show up in this widget. Title the widget with the ‘posty-title’ custom field. It only works on single posts.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>The Posty Widget plugin was developed by Eric Marden, and is provided with out warranty under the GPLv2 License. More info and other plugins at: http://xentek.net</p>
<p>Copyright 2008  Eric Marden  (email : wp@xentek.net)</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA</p>


Posty Widget

A custom plugin that will display dynamic text from the values you enter in special custom fields on a post inside of a WordPress Widget.

happymox

<p>Display your selected post and page.<br />
A very simple plugin to add selectable post and page – for WordPress.</p>
<h4>Features include</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy to install</li>
<li>Use for any sidebar.</li>
<li>Get post(s) directly by a list of selected posts.</li>
<li>Widget to display the post feature image. </li>
<li>It will be displayed at random as the featured image of any post without an image.</li>
</ul>


Posty Widget vs Selectable Post and Page