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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:
<ul>
<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.

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The Awesome featured posts is a light weight WordPress plugin. It enables custom, flexible and
featured posts. User can see Latest Featured Posts in Simple List View/Slider View. User can
display posts from specific category / tag or multiple categories / tags. User can style the
widget individually.It allows you to display a list of featured posts with/without thumbnail, excerpt,
post date and much more. You can set the size for the thumbnail or just take the standard from your
options. You can also show the excerpt with first 3 or more words and with/without <code>Read More</code> text
option. It allows user to choose where to display posts in website.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Allows to display Featured Posts in two ways: 
a. Simple List View 
b. Using Slider</li>
<li>Most useful feature of this plugin is user can see Latest Featured Posts by setting number of 
months field eg: 2 months / 5 months old posts</li>
<li>Allows to display posts in slider by just Turn On/Off Show Posts In Slider</li>
<li>Allows you to display featured posts from specific category / tag or multiple categories / 
tags</li>
<li>Slider options such as AutoPlay, Pagination, Stop on Hover, Time Interval, Sliding Speed</li>
<li>Allows to set Title</li>
<li>Allows to assign text Before/After Post</li>
<li>Supports Post, Page post type</li>
<li>Supports Offset field</li>
<li>Allows to set number of Posts to display</li>
<li>Order by Date, ID, Parent, Comment Count, Random </li>
<li>Turn On/Off Post Meta field, eg: [post_categories] [post_tags]</li>
<li>Display excerpt, with customizable length and <code>read more...</code> text</li>
<li>Display post date / post modified date / Relative Date. eg: 5 days ago of Post</li>
<li>Display thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment</li>
<li>Choose pages to display posts</li>
<li>Allows to add Custom css to display Featured Posts</li>
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Awesome Featured Post Widget

sidebar, taxonomy, post meta, plugin, wordpress Requires at least: 4.4.2 Tested up to: 4.7.2 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http …

Recent & Featured Posts Widget vs Awesome Featured Post Widget