Jack Reichert

This plugin was developed to display excerpts from random posts in a category. jQuery is used for fading the plugin in and out. It’s a great way for displaying testimonials of clients or just giving a snapshot of content from your site.
Shortcode added as of version 1.4
The most basic use is: <code>[reFader]</code> this will use the default options. 
Here is an example of all the options in use 
 [reFader title=”Random Excerpts” cat=”23″ type=”post” amount=”5″ length=”50″ duration=”5000″ linked=”no” url=”http://www.jackreichert.com/”]
This will show 5 (amount) posts (type) from category #23 (cat). It will show 50 (length) words from each post and fade out/in every 5 seconds (duration). It will not link each title to the corresponding post, but it will link all the titles to this plugins page (url).

Random Excerpts Fader

Creates a widget that takes randomly a number of excerpts from a category of your choice and fades them in and out.

Jonathan Brinley

The standard excerpt field will appear on pages, just as it does on posts.
Additionally, there is a new widget to display the excerpt of a selected page.
Created by <a href="http://flightless.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">Flightless</a>

Page Excerpts

The plugin is built for something very specific, and does it perfectly.

Simple but effective

Adds an excerpt field to pages, and provides a widget for displaying page excerpts

Random Excerpts Fader vs Page Excerpts