Extended Featured Widget
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.
Category Cloud Widget
The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar. Examples You can see this in action on my site: http://leekelleher.com/linklog/ Special Thanks Thank you to Matt Kingston, as this widget was based on his Weighted Categories plugin. Thanks to Peter Hasperhoven for introducing the ‘minimum number of posts’ option.
