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<p>Simple Featured Posts is a pratical widget that allows you to show a post list with thumbnails ordered by random or recent posts. You can also choose post’s categories and how many posts you want to show.<br />
This widget show the first image found in the post as thumbnail or thumbnail image of posts if supported by template.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>You can show a thumbnail image.</li>
<li>Choice the number of posts to show.</li>
<li>Posts list ordered by random or date.</li>
<li>Choose or exclude categories from posts list.</li>
<li>TimThumb support for a perfect resize.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Appearence</h4>
<p>The appearance is essential to allow people who use it to customize their own template’s CSS easily, without clashing too much with the preset styles of widget.</p>


Simple Featured Posts Widget

Simple Featured Posts is a pratical widget that allows you to show a post list with thumbnails ordered by random or recent posts.

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<p>Frontier Set Featured will set featured image from images in the post if no featured image is set by the user.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>If no Featured Images is set on save, the plugin will:
<ul>
<li>Select the first image that is uploaded to the post, and set it as Featured Image</li>
<li>If still no Featured Image, select the first image from the post content, and set it as Featured Image</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The will work both from admin interface & frontend.</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: Only images from the media library can be used as featured images (as per WordPress standard).</p>
<h4>Frontier plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-post/" rel="ugc">Frontier Post</a>  – Complete frontend management of posts</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-query/" rel="ugc">Frontier Query</a>  – Display lists and groupings of posts in post/pages and widgets.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-buttons/" rel="ugc">Frontier Buttons</a>  – Full control of tinymce toolbars and buttons buttons</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-set-featured/" rel="ugc">Frontier Set Featured </a>  – Set featured image aut. based on post images </li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-restrict-media/" rel="ugc">Frontier Restrict Media </a>  – Restrict media access to users own media</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-restrict-backend/" rel="ugc">Frontier Restrict Backend </a>  – Restrict access to the backend (wp-admin)</li>
</ul>


Frontier Set Featured

Frontier Set Featured will set featured image from images in the post if no featured image is set by the user.

Simple Featured Posts Widget vs Frontier Set Featured