Jeff Stieler

Super Widgets let you display the Title, Featured Image, and Excerpt of a selected post or posts in your sidebar.
Narrow down posts to feature by blog (if multisite), post type, or taxonomy.
Show a single post (post/page/custom post type) with the Single Post (Post Type) widget.
Show the most recent post in a selected taxonomy with the Single Post (Taxonomy) widget.
Show the most recent X posts in a selected taxonomy with the Multi Post widget.

Super Widgets

Feature posts in your sidebar.  Select posts by Blog (multisite), individually, by Post Type, or by Tag/Category/Taxonomy.

iandbanks

Feature Me CTA Widget is a simple widget that allows you to turn any page or post on your website into a call to action (cta).It pulls the pages and posts from the WordPress database and allows a user to choose one to display an excerpt and featured image in a widget area. Use this widget to feature prominent articles, or promote actions on the website.
IT’S EASY TO USE. If your theme uses widgets, you can use Feature Me. Just select the post or page you want to feature in any widget area, customize some preferences and save. Done.
IT SAVES TIME. Forget about endless sticky posts. With Feature Me, you won’t waste your time swapping out sticky 
posts to display your posts and pages in a prominent location. When you use Feature Me, 
you there is no need to code a featured page on your website ever again.

Feature Me – CTA Widget

A simple widget that allows you to feature any page or post on your website.

Super Widgets vs Feature Me – CTA Widget