stackcommerce

The StackCommerce Deal Feed plugin is the best way to surface curated and relevant tech & lifestyle deals in front of your readers. 
Ditch standard text ads and replace them with products that are hand selected to peak your readers’ interests. 
Deals in the feed will link directly to your publisher store, making you money with each purchase. Our team here at StackCommerce has found major success with WP Deal Feeds on many of our publisher stores. 
Join us in our native commerce mission to provide the right products, in the right place, at the right time.
Top features:
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<li>Our Deal Feed is not blocked by Ad Blocker! Look, it’s already worth it and you’ve only read one bullet point. </li>
<li>The Deal Feed widget can be added directly into any widget area in your current WP theme. It’s plug and play!</li>
<li>You can add multiple Deal Feeds into multiple widget areas. Maybe you want a ‘Deal of the Day’ in the upper right sidebar, a list of ‘Newest Deals’ at the bottom, and ‘Ending Deals’ as a horizontal module. You can do it all. Maximize the potential of your real estate with handpicked content rather that irrelevant ads. </li>
<li>5 view options! Choose between horizontal and vertical views. With the vertical view, you can choose between a list view, grid view, and a large view. We also have a shortcode option that allows you to implement a Deal Feed widget within a post. </li>
<li>Fully customize any view to perfectly fir the look and feel of your site. Pick image sizes, product title sizes, headers, and more. </li>
<li>Styling options allow you to pick colors to exactly match your brand. </li>
<li>Customizable URL parameters for tracking. Everything will be tracked and analyzed by our Account Management team. We will make suggestions based on performance data to maximize the impact of your Deal Feed Widgets.</li>
<li>Choose between surfacing Best Sellers, Newest Deals, or deals Ending Soon.</li>
<li>Pick the number of products that show up in your feed.</li>
<li>All deals that are shown are customized based on data from your store only. For example, Best Sellers will be the best sellers for your store.</li>
<li>The fonts will inherit the current font on your page, ensuring that the widget looks and feels like part of your site.</li>
<li>Customize everything! There are dozens of combinations. Adjust the color of the buy button, add or remove the discount ribbon, customize header text, change the size of product titles. Make it yours!</li>
<li>Deals open in a new tab by default so that readers aren’t taken away from your site.</li>
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StackCommerce Deal Feed

The StackCommerce Deal Feed plugin is the best way to surface curated and relevant tech & lifestyle deals in front of your readers.

Johan van der Wijk

The <a href="http://www.vanderwijk.com/wordpress/wordpress-custom-post-widget/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=custom_post_widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Content Blocks</a> allows you to display the contents of a specific custom post in a widget on in the content area using a shortcode.
Even though you could use the text widget that comes with the default WordPress install, this plugin has some major benefits:
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<li>The Content Blocks plugin enables users to use the WYSIWYG editor for editing the content and adding images.</li>
<li>If you are using the standard WordPress text widgets to display content on various areas of your template, this content can only be edited by users with administrator access. If you would like non-administrator accounts to modify the widget content, you can use this plugin to provide them access to the custom posts that provide the content for the widget areas.</li>
<li>You can even use the featured image functionality to display them in a widget.</li>
<li>The Content Blocks plugin is compatible with the WPML Multi-Language plugin and automatically shows the correct language in the widget area.</li>
<li>The Content Blocks can be included in posts and pages using the built-in shortcode functionality.</li>
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This plugin creates a ‘content_block’ custom post type. You can choose to either display the title on the page or use it to describe the contents and widget position of the content block. Note that these content blocks can only be displayed in the context of the page. I have added ‘public’ => false to the custom post type which means that it is not accessible outside the page context.
To add content to a widget, drag it to the required position in the sidebar and select the title of the custom post in the widget configuration.
Includes the following translations:
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<li>Swedish (sv_SE) by <a href="http://krokedil.se" rel="nofollow ugc">Andreas Larsson</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) by <a href="https://www.ibidemgroup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">IBIDEM GROUP</a></li>
<li>Portuguese (pt_BR) by Ronaldo Chevalier</li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL) by Kuba Skublicki</li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) by <a href="https://vanderwijk.nl" rel="nofollow ugc">Johan van der Wijk</a></li>
<li>Czech (cs_CZ) by <a href="http://jsemweb.cz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Martin Kucera</a></li>
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<a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/custom-post-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">More translations are very welcome!</a>

Content Blocks (Custom Post Widget)

I was looking for something like this that goes perfectly with page builder based on widgets. Easy to use, simple and gets the job done.

Simple and effective

This plugin enables you to edit and display Content Blocks in a sidebar widget or using a shortcode.

StackCommerce Deal Feed vs Content Blocks (Custom Post Widget)