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.

paulmac

Pauls Latest Posts displays a list of your latest posts and comments in the sidebar with excerpts. Excerpts length can be modified or left out completely. Useful for sites that display one post on the main page, and want to link to previous posts.
<h3>Feedback</h3>
Feedback is welcome as are feature requests. Just leave a comment on the <a href="http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/wordpress/plugins/pauls-latest-posts/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Page</a>.
<h3>Thanks</h3>
Thanks goes to the following people: Simon who suggested that I add the Latest Comments functionality, Juno for suggesting the HTML functionality, the ability to change the Read More text, specify post and comment titles, disabling and enabling post title, comment title and styles. Wil for suggesting the Randomised Offset setting, Farabi for suggesting the category option, Peter for reporting the bug fixed in version 1.8, Charles for the post date.

Pauls Latest Posts

Display latest posts with excerpts and comments in a sidebar widget.

Random Excerpts Fader vs Pauls Latest Posts