gormer

The purpose of this widget is to take an existing page and show it 
inside a widget that you can add through the regular widget system in 
WordPress.
I would rather recommend you to use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spectacula-page-widget/ because it’s much better.The purpose of this widget is to take an existing page and show it 
inside a widget that you can add through the regular widget system in 
WordPress.
I would rather recommend you to use [https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spectacula-page-widget/ Spectacu.la Page Widget] because it’s better tested and maintained.
<h3>Plugin Name</h3>
Contributors: gormer 
Donate link: 
Tags: widget, page 
Requires at least: 2.0.2 
Tested up to: 3.0 
Stable tag: trunk
Creates a widget out of any page.

Simple Page Widget

jonathanmh

I have created a little WordPress plugin in the shape of a widget, which allows the user to display an excerpt of a page in a sidebar area of their choice. 
I wrote this to replace a little theme hack I did for a client, where the front page was supposed to have an excerpt of a page on the front page, of course linking to the full page. Instead of keeping it that way and hard coding the page-id, I wanted something where the end user could change which page was supposed to be linked. I hope it will be of use to someone.
Right now you can:
<ul>
<li>Define the amount of characters to use as an excerpt</li>
<li>Select the page from all existing pages</li>
<li>Link the title of the page, to the page</li>
<li>Append a link to the page</li>
<li>Decide a custom label for the read more link</li>
<li>add multiple instances of the widget</li>
</ul>
I plan to increase the functionality with:
<ul>
<li>some internationalisation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Suggestions welcome</h3>
Since this is my first plugin and widget, suggestions, improvements and more are very welcome. I’ve also published the code on github, for easier discussion and improvement. https://github.com/JonathanMH/page-excerpt-widget

Page Excerpt Widget

This plugin allows the user to place a widget with an excerpt of a page in any sidebar. Dropdown menu for page, amount of characters adjustable.

Simple Page Widget vs Page Excerpt Widget