stephenbaugh

This plugin gives you the ability to add a category introduction to each archive. No editing of your themes is required to use the plugin and a default layout is setup on install. Play with the html layout until you get exactly what you want. 3 tags are provided to give you access to the category data [categoryID], [categoryTitle] and [categoryDescription] also optionally you can use php if you are an advanced user. Tags are evaluated first, then php before the results are returned. For more detailed information and installation information please visit this plugins <a href="http://www.stephenbaugh.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/category-intro-archive/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>
The html layout has 3 tags available
<ol>
<li>[categoryID] </li>
<li>[categoryTitle]</li>
<li>[categoryDescription]</li>
</ol>
<h3>Support</h3>
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Tui's Category Intro For Archive

This plugin has been written to insert a category introduction to each archive, based on its category title and despription.

Sajid K.Shaikh

The Widget with some options. This plugin is based on the well-known WordPress default widget ‘Recent Posts’ and enhanced to display thumbnails of the posts.
The thumbnails will be built from the featured image of a post content. If there is neither a featured image nor a content image then you can hide the thumbnail.
The thumbnails appears left-aligned to the post titles. You can set the width and heigth of the thumbnails in the list.
The widget and shortcode is available. You can insert through widget on any sidebar any where easily.

Tui's Category Intro For Archive vs Recent Post Lazy Load