Yann at WP&amp;Co

<h4>Quick and simple featured boxes as widgets</h4>
<p>Adds a widget to display a square or rectangular block in the form of an image, title, and subtitle<br />
pointing to a specific post, page, category or theme.</p>
<p>Nice CSS styling. Recommended for inclusion in “magazine styled” home pages.</p>
<p>Multi-widget is supported, so that numerous articles or categories can be featured in a sidebar or home page template.</p>
<p>You can use the provided additional stylesheet, or customize your own.</p>
<p>Base package includes .pot file for translation of the interface, and <strong>English</strong> and <strong>French</strong> versions.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>If you want to contribute to a translation of this plugin, please drop me a line by e-mail or leave a comment<br />
on the <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget" title="Yann Dubois' Featured Box Widget for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s page</a>.<br />
You will get credit for your translation in the plugin file and this documentation, as well as a link on this page and on my developers’ blog.</p>
<h4>Active support</h4>
<p>Drop me a line on my <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget" title="Yann Dubois' Featured Block Widget for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">YD Recent Posts Widget plugin support site</a> to report bugs, ask for specific feature or improvement, or just tell me how you’re using the plugin.<br />
It’s still in an active development stage, with new features coming out on a regular basis.</p>
<h3>Revisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.1.0. Initial beta release of 2010/10/14</li>
<li>0.1.1. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/25</li>
<li>0.1.2. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/25</li>
<li>0.1.3. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/26</li>
</ul>
<h3>Did you like it?</h3>
<p>Drop me a line on http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget</p>
<p>And… <em>please</em> rate this plugin –></p>


YD Featured Box Widget

Quick and simple featured boxes as widgets

Aaron D. Campbell

<p>Used to create a customizable rotating slideshow highlighting certain posts or<br />
pages.  You can choose which posts or pages are featured by simply checking a<br />
checkbox on the write posts/page screen.  The plugin uses the new post thumbnail<br />
functionality added in WordPress 2.9.</p>
<p><em>Requires PHP5.</em></p>


Featured Content Showcase

Used to create a customizable rotating slideshow highlighting certain posts or pages.  Uses jQuery, which comes with WordPress (no conflicts).

YD Featured Box Widget vs Featured Content Showcase