Daiv Mowbray

This widget dynamically creates a list of posts from the active category. Displaying the first image and title in a scrolling list. It will display the first image in your post as a thumbnail,it looks first for an attached image, then an embedded image then if it finds the image, it grabs the thumbnail version. Oh, and by the way, it’s an animated vertical scroller, way cool. 
If the post has no image the widget uses a default image. This works best with the plugin Widget logic. Just set the widget to is_single() || is_category() and all your single viewed posts will have a scrolling thumbnail list of other posts in this category.
credits:
<ul>
<li>mootools – <a href="http://mootools.net/" title="Your favorite javascript framework" rel="nofollow ugc">Mootools</a></li>
<li>slideBox – <a href="http://www.mootools.nl/slideBox/" title="Riaan Los" rel="nofollow ugc">slideBox</a></li>
<li>Widget logic you will want this – <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/" title="Widget logic " rel="ugc">Widget logic</a></li>
</ul>
Support
If you have any problems or suggestions regarding this plugin <a href="http://support.superslider.daivmowbray.com/forum" title="support forum" rel="nofollow ugc">please speak up</a>
Other Plugins 
Download These Plugins here:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/superslider/" title="SuperSlider" rel="ugc">SuperSlider</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/superslider-show/" title="SuperSlider-Show" rel="ugc">SuperSlider-Show</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/superslider-image/" title="SuperSlider-Image" rel="ugc">SuperSlider-Image</a></li>
</ul>
NOTICE
<ul>
<li>The downloaded folder’s name should be superslider-postsincat</li>
<li>Probably not compatible with plugins which use jquery. (not tested)</li>
</ul>
Features
<ul>
<li>pull images from posts in this category </li>
<li>animated scroller</li>
<li>Control max number of images.</li>
<li>Images link to post</li>
<li>control size of scroll area</li>
<li>Widget title is dynamic, writes category Name</li>
<li>works also for non attached images in your library</li>
<li>presents default image if none in post.</li>
<li>Uses WordPress native media / images</li>
<li>Control scroll speed</li>
<li>Control animation type</li>
</ul>
Demos
This plugin can be seen in use here:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://superslider.daivmowbray.com/wp-plugin-demos/superslider-postsincat/postsincat-elk" title="Demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo 1</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>USAGE</h3>
If you are not sure how this plugin works you may want to read the following.
<ul>
<li>First ensure that you have uploaded all of the plugin files into wp-content/plugins/superslider-postsincat folder.</li>
<li>Go to your WordPress admin panel and stop in to the widgets control page. Activate the SS Posts in Cat widget.</li>
<li>Configure the widget.</li>
<li>Go view a single post on the front side, you should see the superslider-postsincat widget in your side bar.</li>
<li>Optional: move the file postincat.css to your theme folder and the images inside of superslider-postincat/css/images to yourtheme/images, select “Load css from your theme folder” in the widget options panel. This will preserve any modifications you make to the css or image files, if and when there is a plugin update.</li>
<li>Recommended : The css is set up for thumbnails of 150 x 150 pixels, to display 3 images at a time with the default css set the widget height to 552. If you have your thumbnail sizes set differently in the WordPress admin, then you will need to adjust the css and the widget height accordingly.</li>
</ul>
<h3>OPTIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS</h3>
Available under > appearance > widget > SuperSlider-PostsinCat
<ul>
<li>theme css file to load or not (you may want to add the classes to your theme css and reduce file requests to the server).</li>
<li>widget title.</li>
<li>Add Category name to the widget title (this will change dynamically according to the active category).</li>
<li>number of images to pull from category.</li>
<li>height of display area.</li>
<li>Load css from your theme folder.</li>
</ul>
<h3>To Do</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add option to link images to a lightbox</li>
</ul>
<h3>Report Bugs Request / Options / Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Please use the support system at https://wordpress.org/</li>
<li>Or post to the wordpress forums</li>
</ul>
<h3>CAVEAT</h3>
Currently this plugin relies on Javascript to create the scroller. 
If a user’s browser doesn’t support javascript the scroller will display normally as a list of images.

Superslider-PostsinCat

This widget dynamically creates a list of posts from the active category. Displaying the first image and title in a scrolling list.

Strawberry Jellyfish

The Jellyfish Counter plugin provides a widget and shortcode enabling you to 
easily add animated counters to your WordPress site.
Counters can be used as a manually updated total, an automatic counter that 
updates over time or just as an animated visual effect. 
Each counter can count upwards or downwards making them suitable for both 
incrementing totals or countdown situations. A great visual effect for travel 
blogs or any website that wants to display a running total or countdown of anything.
Jellyfish Counters are highly configurable through the widget interface, and 
being generated using CSS and JavaScript, they require no external graphics 
files. You may have as many counters as you wish on a page, all can have 
individual settings for totals and appearance.
Shortcode support allows you to generate a counter directly within any 
post or page content making counters no longer limited to your sidebar or 
other widgetable area.
Advanced users will find that Jellyfish Counter objects are fully accessible 
via JavaScript and may be controlled and reconfigured as desired though your 
own custom scripting.
<h4>Demo</h4>
Check out the plugin homepage for demos and further information: 
http://strawberryjellyfish.com/wordpress-plugins/jellyfish-counter/
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Widget</h4>
Simply drag a counter widget to your sidebar and adjust the settings to suit 
your needs.
There are three basic modes of operation:
<ul>
<li>
Static – If you want the counter to simply display a non animated number 
just set a Start Value to the desired number for the counter and set the 
Counter Type to ‘static’
</li>
<li>
Animated – If you supply both start value and end value in the widget, the 
counter will increment upwards or downwards depending on the chosen Counter 
Type until it reaches the end value. Speed of the count is controlled by the 
Animation Speed option. Note, this counter has no memory, it will reset when a 
page is reloaded or changed but it is great for a visual effect where start and 
end values are relatively close together.
</li>
<li>
Continuous – If you want to count over a long period of time and need your 
counter to continue to count irrespective of page loads then just select the 
continuous option in the widget. Then choose the interval between the counter 
increments, in seconds. As soon as you save the widget the counter will “start” 
and will continue to tick away even if nobody is viewing your blog. Changing the 
setting on an active continuous counter will not effect the count value and it 
will keep count, if you wish to reset an active continuous counter just change 
the start value and save the widget and the counter will restart from the new 
starting value. 
Note: In continuous mode, animation speed and display tenths have no effect.
</li>
</ul>
The counters are very configurable through the widget panel. You can define 
the digit height, width and font as well as animation speed (animated mode only) 
and “bustedness” (odometer style misalignment of the digits).
You can further customise the appearance of an individual counter via the 
“Digit Style” input that will accept a valid CSS style attributes such as 
font-family, colour, background etc.
Note: the size of the font here as is automatically calculated 
from the height, width and padding settings.
Need a flat looking counter? 
“Disable 3D effect” removes the CSS shading effect.
If you want to display a prefix on the counter or include separating 
characters, use the Format input. Just enter a string here representing your 
desired counter appearance, a 0 represents a counter digit, any other 
character will be displayed as it is. The Format option overrides the number 
of digits option, if a format string exists then the counter will use the 
total number of 0 characters as the number of digits.
Example Formats:
$0.00
1,000,000
0000 km
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
You can generate a counter directly within page or post content using the 
[jellyfish_counter] shortcode. The shortcode accepts a full range of 
parameters to provide identical functionality to the widget version.
The following parameters may be used within a shortcode:
<ul>
<li>digits : a number, Number of digits in the counter</li>
<li>format : a string, representing any fancy display format</li>
<li>tenths : true/false, display tenths digit or not</li>
<li>digit_height : number, pixel height of digits</li>
<li>digit_width : number, pixel width of digits</li>
<li>digit_padding : number, pixel padding for digits</li>
<li>digit_style : a string, custom css styles for the digits</li>
<li>alignment : ‘left’, ‘center’, ‘right’, ‘inline’ overall counter alignment</li>
<li>bustedness : a number, misalignment of digits</li>
<li>flat : true/false, don’t show 3d effect, show 3d effect</li>
<li>speed : a number, 0 – 100, animation speed</li>
<li>start : a number, starting value for the counter</li>
<li>end : a number, ending value for the counter</li>
<li>direction : a, string ‘up’ or ‘down’</li>
<li>interval : The number of seconds between updates of a continuous counter</li>
<li>tick_multiplier : the number of units the counter will increment every interval (defaults to 1) </li>
<li>timestamp : false or a string representing the starting time for the counter</li>
</ul>
If you don’t specify a parameter it’s default value will be used.
Examples:
[jellyfish_counter end=100]
The above shortcode translates as: 
Display a counter that animates upwards from 0 to 100
[jellyfish_counter start=999 end=0 direction=”down” 
digit_style=”background: transparent; color: red;” flat=true; 
timestamp=”2014-09-28 9:20:21″ interval=300 ]
The above shortcode translates as: 
Display a counter that starts at 999 and ends at 0, counting downwards. 
It has red digits on a transparent background with no 3D shading effect. 
It is a persistent counter that started counting at 9:20:21 on 2014-09-28 and 
has been decrementing by one every 300 seconds (5 minutes) since then.
<h4>Styling</h4>
You can modify the appearance of an individual counters text through the 
widget control panel or through shortcode parameters. This should be 
sufficient for most uses.
However, if you need to globally override the default counter style or make 
other CSS changes to the counter digits or container, take a look at 
jellyfish-counter.css for the appropriate class names. You should override 
this in you theme rather than modifying this css file as any changes made 
would be lost when the plugin upgrades..

Jellyfish Counter Widget

Show eye catching totals with static or animated counter widgets and shortcodes. Classic retro odometer style or easy customise your own custom look.

Superslider-PostsinCat vs Jellyfish Counter Widget