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<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

sumitsurai

<p>This plugin allows you to create unlimited custom groups of featured posts.<br />
Admin can create unlimited groups and assign the posts under one or multiple groups.<br />
The widget section allows the admin to show these groups of featured posts. The widget section is hugely customizable to enter HTML and CSS to give the featured posts blocks the desired look.<br />
<strong>Please refer to the help section for more details.</strong></p>


Featured Posts with Multiple Custom Groups (FPMCG)

This plugin allows you to create unlimited custom groups of featured posts.

YD Featured Box Widget vs Featured Posts with Multiple Custom Groups (FPMCG)