NebulosaWeb

<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.

sewpafly

<p>To meet the needs of themes where the post-thumbnails have random and capricious sizes (which causes wordpress to crop images simply from the middle (either chopping off the top and bottom or chopping off the sides), this plugin attempts to give the users an interface to manually fix those thumbnail and random images.</p>


Post Thumbnail Editor

Does not work

Fed up with the lack of automated tools to properly crop and scale post thumbnails? Maybe this plugin can help.

Simple Featured Posts Widget vs Post Thumbnail Editor