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Recent & Featured Posts Widget adds a list of recent posts or posts of your choosing with thumbnail images, post titles, dates, times, and excerpts.
Features:
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<li>Excerpt Length. Change the number of words in the post excerpt.</li>
<li>Excerpt Display. Show the excerpt as a dropdown when someone hovers over a section or display the excerpt directly on the page.</li>
<li>CSS Modification. Modify certain CSS values including image width, text position, and border.</li>
<li>Featured Posts. Don’t want to show recent posts? Enter a list of post IDs. The number of posts shown will depend on the total number of IDs.</li>
<li>Thumbnail Images. Choose to show featured image, or the oldest image attached to a post is shown by default.</li>
<li>Images of your Choosing. Enter a list of image IDs to replace the default images. Images are shown in the order listed.</li>
<li>Date and Time. Show or hide the post date and/or time. Choose a separator that goes between date and time.</li>
<li>Include Sticky Posts. If you include sticky posts, an extra post is added. I.e. if the ‘Number of posts to show’ is 5 and you select ‘Include Sticky Posts’, 6 posts will be shown.</li>
<li>Rectangular or Circular Image.</li>
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Recent & Featured Posts Widget

Display recent posts or manually selected posts with thumbnail images. Show the excerpt directly on the page or as a dropdown.

kaser

Easily configure this widget to display any amount of posts (from 1 to 99) from a category into any widgetized area of your blog.
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<li>You can create custom titles</li>
<li>You can set how many posts you wish to display</li>
<li>You can choose from Posts or Custom Post Types</li>
<li>You can select any category</li>
<li>You can choose wether or not to link the widget title to the archive of that category or custom post type</li>
<li>You can choose wether or not to display the post title above the featured image</li>
<li>You can choose from predefined image sizes, or set custom width and height</li>
<li>You can choose to align the featured image Left, Center or Right</li>
<li>You can run as many instances of the widget that you want to!</li>
<li>You can order your posts randomly</li>
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AK Featured Post Widget

A widget that you can use to display your blog posts, custom post types, or woocommerce products!

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