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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.

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Amit Kumar Singh

pateln54

Featured Today allows you to show featured articles or latest articles from a category that you select. It is very simple to use, just place the ‘featured today widget’ in the right widget area, select the category you want to display. It will show featured article in the same way as featured articles are shown on the linkedin today page.
This plugin is brought to you by <a href="http://wpoets.com/" title="WordPress based development shop" rel="nofollow ugc">WPoets</a> development team.
Features
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<li>Displays as widget</li>
<li>You can set number of articles to show</li>
<li>You can select the category to use</li>
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Featured Today

Featured Today shows featured articles like it is shown on linkedin today.

Recent & Featured Posts Widget vs Featured Today