Stephanie Leary

A widget that lists your most recent posts with excerpts, optionally limited to a category. The number of posts and excerpts is configurable; for example, you could show the titles of five posts but include the excerpt for only the two most recent. Supports <a href="http://robsnotebook.com/the-excerpt-reloaded/" rel="nofollow ugc">the_excerpt Reloaded</a> and <a href="http://sparepencil.com/code/advanced-excerpt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Excerpt</a> for excerpts with HTML formatting.
New! Supports displaying post thumbnails along with excerpts. Widget options let you place the thumbnails above the title, in between the title and the excerpt, or below the excerpt.
Now on <a href="https://github.com/sillybean/Recent-Posts-with-Excerpts" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
<h4>Translations</h4>
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<li>Serbo-Croatian (sr-RS) by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Borisa Djuraskovic</a></li>
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If you would like to send me a translation, please write to me through <a href="http://stephanieleary.com/about/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">my contact page</a>. Let me know which plugin you’ve translated and how you would like to be credited. I will write you back so you can attach the files in your reply.

Daiv Mowbray

SuperSlider-Excerpts automatically pulls thumbnails from your posts and morph-animates the roll over to any css style, wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…). The thumbnail can be any sized image and linked to post, attachment page, or other size version of image(for light box pop overs). Mouseover image will then Morph its properties, (controlled with css) You can pre-define the automatic creation of excerpt sized excerpt-nails.(New image size created, upon image upload). Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/" title="Advanced Excerpt" rel="ugc">Advanced Excerpt</a>
Order of thumbnail search for inclusion in your excerpt listings.
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If your post / page has the new 2.9 post_thumb option on your post screen, if used, this image will be used.
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If your post / page has a meta_tag of thumbnail, it will grab the thumbnail and use that as part of your excerpt.
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If your post / page has attached images it will grab the first image and use that as part of your excerpt.
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If your page or post has an image embedded this plugin will grab the thumbnail from the first image.
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If your post has no image, this plugin will pull a category defined image, if you have added one.
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And lastly if still there is no image for the post, a random image will be presented.(Selects from as many as you define in options)
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Demos
This plugin can be seen in use here:
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<li><a href="http://superslider.daivmowbray.com/category/plugin-news" title="SuperSlider Excerpt demo" rel="nofollow ugc">SuperSlider Excerpt demo</a></li>
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Support
If you have any problems or suggestions regarding these plugins <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/superslider-excerpt" title="support forum" rel="ugc">please speak up</a>,
<h3>Themes</h3>
Create your own graphic and animation theme based on one of these provided.
Available themes
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<li>default</li>
<li>blue</li>
<li>black</li>
<li>custom</li>
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