Featured posts in Extra Theme (by Elegant Themes) is widget plugin for displaying featured posts in widget area.
Main Features
- Featured posts – Filters You can have several widgets of WordPress Popular Posts on your blog, each with its own settings!
- Title – Customize widget title as you need
- Numer of posts to show – Number of post to display in widget. Posts are ordered by date of publishing or any other order ex. plugin Simple Custom Post Order (https://www.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-post-order/)
- Display post date – shows date of post in widget, formated by global settings
- Display post thumbnail – shows thumbnail of featured image
- Display post category – shows another post meta data in the same line as post date
