Rashed Latif

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TT Post Viewer is a plugin that lets you display Most recent posts, Most popular posts, Most commented posts, Related Posts, Featured Posts, Posts by author, Posts by category, Posts by date in widget area and also can be displayed in post area by using short codes. Posts can be displayed as List or with thumbnail. You can also select whether you want the excerpt to be displayed or not and you can also set the number of words to display.
This plugin is checked on different popular themes and it works fine in most themes. In some themes you may need to tweak style sheet to make it look better. For some themes it doesn’t install. So if you experience any difficulties at the time of installation please try to install on a different theme for test purpose to make sure its the theme causing this issue. Other than that it works absolutely fine with the latest version of wordpress. Few more features will be added in the future versions.
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TT Post Viewer

Plugin to display posts in different ways.

One Crayon

Markup to Featured Image will automatically generate a featured image when you publish a post, with the intent of allowing you to publish posts with featured images from third-party clients like MarsEdit.
To add a featured image to your post, include one of the following markup variants in your post’s content:
<pre><code><img src="/path/to/image.jpg" data-featured-image="keep" />
<img src="/path/to/image.jpg" data-featured-image="strip" />

</code></pre>
If you use an <code><img></code> element, the values of the <code>data-featured-image</code> attribute specify whether the image should be displayed when the post is shown on your site (<code>keep</code>) or ignored when the post is displayed (<code>strip</code>). The order of attributes in your <code><img></code> tag (and whether you include other attributes, like width/height, title, alt, etc.) doesn’t matter. You can make it as complicated or simple as you like.
If the post already has a featured image, the plugin will do nothing (version 1.0 does not allow updating the thumbnail by updating the markup).

Markup to Featured Image

Automatically set the featured image (formerly the post thumbnail) for a post based on custom markup in the body text.

TT Post Viewer vs Markup to Featured Image