Extended Featured Widget is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Extended Featured Widget is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Chinmoy. With a rating of 5.0★ from 2 reviews.
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Extended Featured Widget is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 2 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Chinmoy — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Extended Featured Widget works
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The Extended Featured Content Widget is a powerful, light weight wordpress widget. You can decide, whether or not the post thumbnail is displayed,
whether the post title, post info, meta, content etc are above or beneath the thumbnail and a couple of more things. And of course, you can style
the widget individually. You can filter the content by category, post tags, taxonomy. Also you can include/exclude specific terms or
post/page specific items by ID(s). And many more features are integrated in this plugin.
Widget Features:
Supporting Post, page
Supporting Filter by Category, Tag
Include/Exclude categories/tags by ID field
Include/Exclude post/page items by ID field
Turn on or Off Post title, thumbnail, post info, content etc
Order by Date, ID, comment count, random
Supporting offset field
4 Type Content option
Full Content
Excerpt
Content by Character Limit
No Content
Multiple Hooks and Filters for adding additional content
Select featured image size from drop down
Select Image alignment and Image position
Shortcodes Syntax for Post Info & Meta
Post Date
[post_date after=”” before=”” label=”” format=”DATE FORMAT”]
Post Time
[post_time after=”” before=”” label=”” format=”TIME FORMAT”]
Post Author Name
[post_author after=”” before=””]
Post Author Name with Author Site link
[post_author_link after=”” before=””]
Post Author Name with Author Archive link
[post_author_posts_link after=”” before=””]
Post Comments Number
[post_comments after=”” before=”” more=’% Comments’ one=’1 Comment’ zero=’Leave a Comment’]
Post Tags
[post_tags after=”” before=”Tagged With” sep=’, ‘]
Post Categories
[post_categories after=”” before=”Filed In” sep=’, ‘]
How it is working
Here is the some examples:
3 Columns Grid Style
Featured Content on Home Page
Custom Post Type Demo
This plugin is using lot of hooks and filters. Here is the list of those Hooks & Filters
Hooks
efwp_before_loop
efwp_before_featured_post_content
efwp_featured_post_content
efwp_after_featured_post_content
efwp_inside_loop
efwp_after_loop
Filters
post_content_limit_allowedtags
get_the_efwp_post_content_limit
the_efwp_post_content_limit
efwp_do_post_meta
efwp_do_post_info
efwp_post_date_shortcode
efwp_post_time_shortcode
efwp_post_author_shortcode
efwp_post_author_link_shortcode
efwp_post_author_posts_link_shortcode
efwp_post_comments_shortcode
efwp_post_tags_shortcode
efwp_post_categories_shortcode
PRO Version have following features:
Supporting Post, page, custom post type
Supporting Taxonomies
Added Stylesheet
Supporting Grid Style
Pagination for Post Listings
Any suggestion highly appreciable.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Extended Featured Widget?
Extended Featured Widget is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Chinmoy.